Cotswold Brewing - Gallery

Cotswold Brewing, Foscot, Oxfordshire - Photographs taken by Roger Putman - 9 February 2006

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  Cotswold Brewery logo
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  The brewery buildings, a Cotswold stone barn repurposed
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  The old oak beams and high ceiling make for a chilly workplace
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  The incoming water is high in bicarbonate and needs reverse osmosis treatment by Lubron
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  The reverse osmosis membrane housings
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  A two roller mill crusheds the Warminister mix of Optic and
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  The head room allows a hefty grist case for the 450kg mash
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  The 25hL brewplant from Specific in Canada came from the Tap Street Brew Pub at Albany in New York State
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  The grist is mashed straight into the lauter tun. The arms are only used for graining
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  Sparging in process
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  Graining in progress
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  Bags of grains assembled for neighbouring farmers
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  Steam is supplied from an oil fired ICI Caldiae one million BTU unit
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  Changeover station between the lauter and copper
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  Copper/whirlpool, paraflow and changeover detail
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  Clothes peg mark the copper dip target
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  Environmental rules dictate a condenser on the copper vent
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  The wort heat exchanger cools the wort to 15 degrees C
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  The heat exchanger from above
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  Eight 33hL conical fermenters
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  A population of kegs supplied by Morrow. They are washed and filled by hand
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  Cotswold Lager at 5%ABV is all malt and modelled on Czech practice but using Liberty and Hersbrucker hops
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  Co-proprietor Richard Keane (with his wife Emma) from Courage, Freedom, Pilgrim and Archers before setting up on his own.