Williams Bros Brewing Co - 13 November 2013
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Williams Brothers Brewing Co, Alloa, Clackmannanshire - Photographs taken by Roger Putman - 13 November 2013
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Scott and Bruce Williams started cuckoo brewing in 1987
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After Maclay & Co. Ltd's Brewery closed in 1999, Forth Brewing Co took over the old Eglington Dyeworks Mills which had become George Younger's export bottling plant in 1912. Williams bought the site in 2004.
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Carlsberg use the warehouse for cross docking and the brewery is on the left
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The building dates from 1884
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The warehouse holds goods for Williams' home brew business, Glenbrew and rents space to anyone who needs it
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Heather, spruce, elderberry and seaweed beers
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A complementary range of more traditional beers; Joker is an IPA with Cascade, Bobek, First Gold and Amarillo; Roisin has tayberries; seven giraffes has seven malts with Cascade, First Gold and Amarillo; Birds and Bees has elderflowers and lemon zest with Cascades.
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Each year Williams does an anniversary celebration beer. This is No22, Froach matured in an Auchentoshen cask for twelve months.
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Four historic ales in a presentation pack
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One of eight Transit vans
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Pump clip stock for the guest beer market
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Two Colinson malt silos and other outside maturation vessels
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A two roller agricultural bruiser to mill the Crisp malt. Fawcett supply the specialities.
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25brl copper on the left and the mash tun
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Clearing the grains with a conveyor
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The fruit mixer paddles
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The fruit infusion vessel with the sieve which is easily blocked by gooseberries
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View of the fermenters from the mash tun staging
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More fermenters
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25brl conditioning tanks
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50brl conditioning tanks
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Even larger conditioning tanks
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Yet more of the 34 conditioning tanks
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The Padovan rough filter and a sheet filter
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Bright beer tanks
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The Microdat two head keg filler
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Highland Park casks
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Basic laboratory and CT stock board
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The brew programme
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Williams offers a contract bottling facility as well as packaging its own products
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The old line filled 2500bph…..
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…it was in the process of being superseded by a Cime Careddu 8000 bph machine
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New filler on the left and old pasteuriser on the right
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Brewer Bruce Williams checks clarity