Cains - Gallery

See:

• Higson's Brewery Ltd
• Robert Cain & Sons Ltd

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  The mainly Victorian terracotta confection that is Cain's Brewery in Liverpool
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  There is much detail on view…
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  ….including the original Robert Cain trademark who built the brewery from 1883 to 1902
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  There is much discussion over whether the trade mark was a goat with two horns….
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  …or a unicorn with just one
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  But detail from a poster proves it is a goat. Horns lower down the façade have been lost over the years
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  Higsons took over in 1923 and went to some trouble to rebadge the brewery to match the original
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  Someone got a good view across the city
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  The brewery was completed in 1902…
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  ..and the offices in 1883
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  Ventilation above the old cooler rooms
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  Ancient and modern. The brewery is again Cains after Higsons, Boddingtons, GB Breweries and Danish Brewing Group
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  Imagine a brickie doing this in the 21st century
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  Higsons name but RC is left below and the creature above does look like a unicorn!
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  The brewery stack well trussed against the winds that blow off the Mersey. The tower is only accessed by telecomms to service their gear.
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  Memorabilia and certificates from the Brewing Industry International Awards
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  Artifacts in the Brewery Tap
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  Inside the Brewery Tap once called the Grapes
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  More artefacts in the Tap
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  Details of the clock in the bar
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  A modern Huppmann brewhouse dates from the Boddington days in 1982.
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  The six tonne mashing in vessel with bulk syrup tanks behind
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  The grains dump tank below the lauter tun
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  A pair of coppers share a single external wort boiler
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  The 25hL hop pot used to inject hops into the copper
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  The outlets to some of the six 54t malt silos
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  Enclosed fermenters. There are six 440hL shells but two are split into two 220s.
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  Removing floors has allowed deep conicals to be installed
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  The conditioning tank stock board
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  Up in the old cooler room ceiling
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  Yeast storage with the ale suction vessels on the left
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  The 150hL per hour SEN horizontal leaf filter
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  The deaeration column by ETA uses CO² as the stripping gas
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  Proprietors Ajmail and Sudarghara Dusanj
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  Brewery Manager David Moore with Quality Manager Dave Edwards and Head Brewer David Nijs
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  The Danes were planning a hospitality centre and refurbished the glazed patterned tile work
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  Only the bar and a table remain as there were problems with access and toilet facilities
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  More ornate tile work
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  An ancient Avery scale
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  Most of the old equipment has been stripped out leaving intriguing remains - a heat exchanger bund wall perhaps?
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  Some unused CVs are still in place
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  The 88 head filler on the can line
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  A magazine for can ends
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  A general view across the can line
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  Packs going to the palletiser
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  A pallet of finished goods on the out-feed conveyor
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  Cains empty cans - Bitter
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  Cains empty cans - Mild