Tennent Wellpark Brewery - 31 August 2001

Tennent Ltd, Caledonian Breweries, Glasgow - Photographs taken by Roger Putman - 31 August 2001

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  In the C16th there were six breweries alongside the Molindinar Burn which now runs under the brewery. One called Dryfoot was owned by Robert Tennent and he is mentioned in the Incorporation of Maltmem dated 1556.
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  The brewery gate on Duke Street
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  Murals abound
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  As part of the Carling solution to the breakup of Bass, the Scottish and Ulster breweries passed to Interbrew
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  Looking down the yard towards the brewhouse
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  Inter plant rivalry from the old Bass days
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  The brewhouse buildings
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  The Yellow can is a Scottish icon
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  Another view in the brewery yard
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  Loch Katrine is now carbon filtered at intake
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  The Meura 2001 mash filter in the 1996 brewhouse
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  View of the fermentation working area
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  There are six yeast pumps for warm collection
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  Another view of the peristaltic yeast pumps
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  Screens in the yeast room office
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  Entrance to the new yeast room
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  Eight 80hL yeast tanks and one 60hL working tank
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  Plant can be rapidly isolated by pulling out the socket
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  The low shear agitator in a yeast storage tank
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  Close up showing rouser motor, CIP supply, rotation detection and top pressure control
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  Waste cones prevent spillages on the floor
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  Routing valves below a yeast tank
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  A load cell on the yeast storage tanks
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  View of the Centec membrane deaeration system
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  Heat exchanger and membrane housings on the Centec deaeration plant
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  A cross section of the cross flow membrane bundle
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  A heat exchanger cools the deaerated water to 1oC.
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  The original nitrogen sparging deaeration plant
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  Gerni 160 bar high pressure water generator
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  High pressure hose units in the fermenting room
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  There are red bonnetted Realm auto valves everywhere
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  The PCB under the Realm bonnet
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  Addition tanks in the line to maturation tank
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  Finished cans in the warehouse
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  Old roller pack conveyors
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  The old palletiser
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  The arm on the change over station has driven rollers to direct the packs
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  The drive motor on the changeover arm
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  The low back pressure set up, rollers instead of dead plates
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  High friction conveyors bring the packs up to the palletiser level
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  Detail of the small flexon rollers
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  Conical rollers take the packs gently round corners
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  Note how the old palletiser did not consistently centre the packs on the pallet
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  No packs protruding from the new palletiser
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  Packs are held back with well padded barriers
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  Packs change direction when they touch vertical spindles
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  Packs move towards the palletiser apron
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  The apron forming the layers of the finished pallet
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  Packs without trays
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  Old packs with trays
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  A 1937 and 2001 can of Tennents
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  Packaging manager John Kelly
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  Brewer Keith Lugton in the new yeast room
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  The brewing team in front of Hansen propagator No 200; Keith Lugton, Gavin Barrack, Graeme Fisher, Sandy Manson, Ivor Reid and John Kelly
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  Krones engineer Tom Earley with John Kelly