Thornbridge Brewery - 24 February 2009

Thornbridge Brewery, Thornbridge Hall, Derbyshire - Photographs taken by Roger Putman - 24 February 2009

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  Thornbridge was founded in 2005 by Jim Harrison. Jim had been a home brewer and made his fortune making engine gaskets in Barnsley. He bought Thornbridge Hall and started brewing again
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  He eyed up the old stone mason's workshop on the estate.
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  He installed the brew plant from Marston Moor in Yorkshire with six 30hL fermenters
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  Ventilation while brewing
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  The brewery office is an old 'tin tabernacle'. These are cheap temporary structures erected by congregations before they could afford a more permanent edifice.
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  The brew kit
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  The Lanemark hot air for copper boiling gets hot.
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  The mash tun plates
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  Space was always at a premium at the Hall so as output rose to 4000hL, the brewery decided to move
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  The conditioning tanks have been well extended
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  The brewery stock board
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  A single jet cask washer
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  Mini kegs share space with the hop stock
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  A pair of the new vessels shoehorned in. The new brewery in nearby Bakewell was commissioned in August 2009