Thomas Hardy, Burtonwood - Gallery

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  Thomas Hardy bought the Burtonwood site in 2005.
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  Side view of the 1988 brew block
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  The brewery stack
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  Close up of the brewery stack
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  The Company has permission to use the author's silhouette on its trademanrk
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  The old and new brewhouse towers
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  View of the smaller brew block superceded in 1988
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  Any idea who F R&A were in 1898?
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  Malt destoner
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  A sample of stones removed by the destoner
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  A pair of four roller Porteus mills
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  Note the tangential entry into the copper whirlpool on the left
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  The brewhouse panel now supplemented with a full SCADA system on the PC screen (far left)
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  The lauter tun has a Steels masher in case the contract demands the use of one.
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  Mash vessel on the left
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  Copper whirlpool with tangential entry
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  Mash tun and lauter tun
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  The lauter tun on the left and one of the two copper whirlpools
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  Copper and mash tun behind
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  There are 33 open square fermenters ranging from 40 -240brl
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  Open square fermenters
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  Attemperation liquor control on FV25
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  Wort collection inlet main directed down the corner of the vessel to reduce fobbing
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  Yeast head ready for cropping
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  Some vessels have attemperation panels but most are cold wall
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  Fermentation in open squares
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  Early fermentation head
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  A pair of boilers
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  There are ten 240brl conical FVs ex Morlands on the right. The larger 480brl tanks on the left are dish-bottomed for maturation
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  Conical FVs and walkway
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  Service mains between the conical FVs
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  Vessels for road tanker intake
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  Conical FV cone - UT would be 'unitank'
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  More vessels for road tanker intake
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  Incoming beer from Heineken
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  The 60bph Alfa Laval centrifuge came from Carlsberg at Northampton
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  Changeover station
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  Yeast propagation facilities; two barrel starter feeding two 10brl vessels
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  Horizontal maturation tanks
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  The Filtrox plate and frame filter
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  Reverse osmosis plant for water softening
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  The four lane GKN Sankey kegging plant from 1980 showing the external washer with the washer-racker on the extreme left
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  Cask racking range
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  Clamp attachment on a fork lift trucks for moving layers of kegs
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  Mixing facilities for the many components of a modern RTD
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  General view of the bottling line looking over the rinser towards the empties intake with some finished goods storage beyond.
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  The two yellow units are accumulation tables
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  Stock on the accumulation table starts to build in response to a hold up downstream
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  The yellow deck of the accumulation table contrasting nicely with the red of Bacardi Breezer
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  Double deck pasteuriser
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  Bacardi Breezer as far as the eye can see
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  The change part for the PET bottle crowner where the top scalloped section supports the bottleneck while the closing pressure is applied
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  Crown capper
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  Collation machine by DIMAC
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  Bottles in card trays about to be shrinkwrapped
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  Filler infeed carousel
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  The Acmi depalletiser
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  Stretchwrap table
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  Complex pipework
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  Storage facilities for the many components of a modern RTD
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  The old brew plant is still extant but not seen by visitors, this is inside the copper
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  Old copper
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  Steam control valves on the copper
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  Mash tun plates
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  Thos Hardy has a mixing and bottling facility at Kendal in Cumbria. The old Youngers and later S&N trade offices are on the right.
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  Intake at Kendal
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  The 80 valve H&K filling machine
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  Stretchwrapping a pallet
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  MD Peter Ward
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  Christopher Ward
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  Burtonwood plant manager Gary Todd
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  Kendal plant manager Peter Armstrong