Whitbread Magor - 23 September 2004
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Whitbread Magor - Photographs taken by Roger - 23/09/2004
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The Magor brewery entrance with a draught barrel sculpture prominent
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85% of output is Stella
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The trailer park with fermenters in the background
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The process area modules are connected with high level walkways and service ducts
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The 24ha site is well landscaped
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A decorated tank beside the Filtration block
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The coppers and whirlpools date from 1979
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The mash hydrator
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The mash conversion vessel
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One of a pair of centrally fed 16t Meura mash filters
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Close up of the diaphragm plates
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A mash filter from the other end
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The fermenters have been clad to blend in with the rural landscape
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Conical bottomed fermenters
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More conical bottomed fermenters
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There are 113 FVs on site totalling 178,405hL (888-1765hL) and maturation has 75 vessels totalling 109,260hL (875-4140hL)
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Three 60t syrup tanks are used to reduce the dependency on maize grits during periods of peak production
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The new 50,000bph bottling line schematic
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A portable console for the depalletiser control
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Depalletisation in progress
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Empty bottles on their way to the rinser
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Neat and tidy engineering area
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Neat and tidy work station
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Neat and tidy satellite laboratory
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The 120 head filler in its clean room receives some maintenance
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Finished bottles pass the check weigher
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The labeller feed magazines
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The Kister WP070 wrap around packer will wrap 20s or 24s at 35 packs per minute
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The Haloila Octopus stretch wrapper
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Change parts are readily accessible from these mobile A boards
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The new bottling hall with space for a second line
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The draught barrel filler in a clean room
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This plastic pouch unfolds as the beer is dispensed exposing more citric acid and bicarb to generate more pressure
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The tap housing showing the channels designed to control fobbing
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Pack labelling on the draught barrel line
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Not sure what this is but it looks complicated
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Yeast tanks have replaced cone to cone repitching
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Tasting Stella
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Entering batch details using a hand held scanner
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Logging palate scores
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Logging flavour attributes if problems are detected
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Packaging Manager Nigel Knowland with General Manager Alan Fernandes
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Quality compliance Manager Jeremy Stead does some sampling
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Production Manager David Hudson was at Magor when the first brew went through in 1979
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Chris Lanson and John Treasure with the first packaging of Export Bass in 6L minikeg