Okells - Gallery

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  Okells Bitter pump clip
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  Olde Skipper pump clip, note the 'New Falcon Brewery' which was not used for long
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  Parent company Heron and Brierley office with the brewery vents beyond
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  Malt from Pauls
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  Four roller malt mill
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  Mash vessel, the brewhouse dates from 1994 and was provided by SPR
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  Lauter tun
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  Lauter tun run off controls
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  Below the working floor, the copper and mash vessel
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  Inside the copper
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  Condenser on top of the copper
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  Another view of the copper condenser
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  Wort is boiled via a plate heat exchanger
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  Sump below the whirlpool
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  The brewhouse panel is a desk between the 100hL brew vessels on the left and the ale FVs on the right
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  There are five ale fermenters
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  120 hL lager fermenters
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  Top of the lager fermenters
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  Permanent piping below the lager vessels, there are three 120hL FVs, six conditioning tanks and two BBTs
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  50 bph Schenk leaf filter
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  Cask washer moved from then old brewery
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  Single head racking station produces 15 pieces an hour
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  Wansom 2000kg oil fired steam generator
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  The hospitality bar
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  The original Falcon Brewery in the centre of Douglas was a wine shop but has now been converted to apartments
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  The Castletown Brewery was taken over in 1986 and is now apartments
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  Clinchs Brewery was taken over as an Ind Coope depot and is now an upmarket restaurant
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  Head Brewer Mike Cowbourne
• Brewer Neil Sharpe
  Brewer Neil Sharpe