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1 - moorhouses_medal.jpg|Moorhouses made hop bitters from 1865 until 1978. It was bought by Michael Ryan who started brewing beer. The business passed to Alan Hutchinson with a chain of hotels to supply in 1982. Bill Parkinson bought it in 1985
2 - cat.jpg|The brewery makes much play from the Pendle Witches. Ten unfortunates were hanged for witchcraft back in 1612
3 - witch.jpg|Witch insignia adorn the walls of the distribution centre
4 - DSCF0159.jpg|The original building from 1870 and the Nissan pick up.
5 - DSCF0240.jpg|Another view of the old brewery buildings
6 - DSCF0231.jpg|There is a distribution building and offices across the Accrington Road
10 - premier.jpg|Premier Bitter was first brewed in 1978 and is still the biggest seller
11 - Dsc_1737e-m.jpg|No 2 and No 4 sellers on the bar
15 - DSCF0208.jpg|A pair of venerable vessels are occasionally used for small brews. On the right is a 6brl open copper and on the left a 4brl boiling vessel originally from a jam factory
16 - DSCF0169.jpg|The open copper
17 - DSCF0170.jpg|The coil in a jam boiler
20 - DSCF0160.jpg|The boiler as the brewery uses lots of hot water for cleaning
21 - DSCF0186.jpg|The two roller malt is by Law Denis
22 - DSCF0173.jpg|Malt from Bairds
25 - DSCF0175.jpg|The 1988 SPR plant. The mash tun is on the left and copper on the right. The centre vessel is an unused whirlpool soon to be converted into a second copper. Blocks of Ragus sugar waiting to be added to the copper
28 - DSCF0189.jpg|The grist conveyor and the cone hydrator waiting to be reaffixed after cleaning
30 - DSCF0188.jpg|The hydrator cone (upside down). A typical mash is 700kg
34 - DSCF0171.jpg|The mash tun plates up for cleaning
40 - DSCF0162.jpg|There is 370brl of fermenting capacity and some 13,000brl are brewed annually
42 - DSCF0165.jpg|The wort heat exchanger and some of the fermenting vessels by Abbfab from Bolton
50 - DSCF0154.jpg|A Katcher pressure jet adapted to blast hot water into a revolving cask . Note the vent to suck the diesel fumes outside
54 - DSCF0161.jpg|A batch of new firkins
87 - DSCF0157.jpg|Liam Taggart scrubs the outside of the casks with a scotch pad
88 - DSCF0184.jpg|Head Brewer Peter Goldsborough counts out copper fining tablets
89 - DSCF0194.jpg|Graham Bailey filling casks straight from FV
90 - DSCF0210.jpg|MD David Grant
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