Adnams plc - Gallery 30 May 2007

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  A metre has been added to the height of the building to the right of the Adnams signage - notice the slightly darker brickwork and window in the roof compared to the 26 June 2001 photos
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  The corner with Victoria Street has been tidied up and a full height window installed
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  Entrance to the brewery yard
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  The warehouse at Reydon - this is the loading bay side
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  Loading vehicles from preassembled pallets
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  Closing the curtain sides
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  Inside the main warehouse area showing the two metre deep glulam beams
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  Incoming trailers arrive through an airlock to avoid temperature fluctuations
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  Stock for the retail trade including CO² cylinders
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  Detail of the glulam roof beams which are 48m long
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  A fork lift truck loading a trunking trailer
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  General view showing the warehouse construction
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  The retail vehicle bays
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  A trunking tractor and trailer
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  A close up of the sedum green roof and two solar panels which provide 80% of the site's electricity needs even in sunny Southwold!
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  Windblown grass seeds have settled amongst the sedum
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  Close up of the laminated structure of the glulam beams
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  A view of the distribution offices in the end bay
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  The site effluent is dealt with through a reed bed system
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  General view of the site showing the warehouse on the right with vehicle maintenance and Tech Services offices on the left.
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  The new Huppmann brewhouse - the silo on the left feeds the wet mill
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  Looking down on the wet mill
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  The copper vapour heat is recovered in the heat exchanger on the left
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  Head Brewer Mike Powell Evans with his new plaything
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  Another view of the copper vapour heat recovery equipment
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  Wort from the lauter tun is collected in a pre-run tank and heated to almost boiling on its way to the copper using this heat exchanger
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  There are four pots for adding hops, salts and copper finings. A flow of wort collects the solids from the pots to add them to the process
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  Underneath the 5.2m diameter lauter tun - the large pipes feed the mash in and the 'spokes' collect the wort to a central point. The green bit is part of the central spindle which moves up and down and circulates the raking arms.
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  Two spent grains silos - two these days as the law demands they must be in place cleaned
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  Another view of the remodelled brewery frontage - compare with 26 June 2001 view
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  Brewery on the left and fermenting vessels on the right - there are now 19 compared to the nine back in 2001