Wickwar Brewery - 21 February 2006
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Wickwar Brewing Co, Gloucester- Photographs taken by Roger Putman - 21 February 2006
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The brewery was founded by Ray Penny in 1990
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The original
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Mr Arnold and Mr Perrett amalgamated in 1887
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A couple of Wickwar bottle labels
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An advertising card for BOB, the biggest seller, it is named after Ray Penny's house - Brand Oak Bitter
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Ray Penny started brewing in the old coopers shop over the road from Arnold Perrett's brewery which was used as a cider plant at the time
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The Cotswold stone brewery buildings date from 1860, the door leads to the brewery offices
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The office door
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Brewery spent grains trailer and the pipe gantry which used to take cider across to packaging in an adjacent building
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The brewing area is light and airy. Grain is stored in 150kg tote bags
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The visitors bar in the old coopers shop
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The Fulton vertical boiler
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The brewery CIP plant
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Another view of the CIP plant
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Tote bags of Warminster Maris Otter malt are lifted above a grain hopper and a two roller mill
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The brewplant is from BTB and dates from 1997, it was originally installed at Oakhill in Somerset. Here is the mash tun
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Details of the top of the 1,000kg mash tun
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Rope and disc grist conveyors
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The copper almost on the boil
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Wort heat exchanger
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Six dish bottomed 50brl fermenters
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Underneath the fermenter top staging
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The yeast storage cabinet
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Inside the yeast storage cabinet
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Oxygenating the wort
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A wort collection sample
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A mobile Filtronic pump is used to crop the top yeast
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The steps leading down to the cellars. The old brewery was built into an old quarry
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Three station cask washer
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Two lane racking arrangement
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The pressurising arrangement to prevent fobbing during cask racking
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In the cellars
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More casks in the cellars
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Head Brewer Philip Downes
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Proprietor Ray Penny