Hobsons Brewery - 7 September 2009

Hobson's Brewery & Co Ltd, Cleobury Mortimer, Shropshire - Photographs taken by Roger Putman - 7 September 2009

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  Hobsons Brewery moved into this old granary in Cleobury Mortimer during 1995.
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  The name derives from 'Hobson's Choice' the play which amdram enthusiasts the Davis family were in at the time
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  A five tonne truck back from a delivery to the Black Country
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  The 18m high twin bladed wind turbine
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  The control panel for the wind turbine
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  Ground source heat pumps; there are four 100m deep holes at 5m apart
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  A series of cooling bars to keep the cellar area cool
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  A pair of 15t malt silos
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  Hobsons won Champion Beer of Britain with Hobsons Mild in 2007
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  The Moeschle 45brl brewplant
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  The AR2000 two roller malt mill
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  Mash tun and wort cooler
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  Grains are removed using a portable platform and conveyor
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  The graining platform ready for the next brew
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  The underback
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  Grains are removed from the upper floor and transferred to a farmers trailer
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  The copper is heated by hot air generated from an LPG flame. There is no steam boiler on site
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  The wort plate heat exchanger uses chilled water at 1oC
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  A square 45brl fermenter by Moeschle
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  Another view of an FV and the steps up to the mash tun
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  The old brewplant has been retained for trials and short bottling runs
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  The old plant will do 12-15brl batches
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  Reassembling the mash hydrator after cleaning the old mash tun
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  Conditioning tanks for bottling
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  An old open cooler for samples
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  Brewhouse working sink etc
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  The portable Velo filter
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  Beer for bottling is sterile filtered and then reseeded with Lallamand Nottingham yeast
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  The bottling line with an SMB 4:4:1, rinser, filler, crowner was rescued from Balbraggan in Ireland still in its delivery cases
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  Cask handling and the old grain chute
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  Locally made cask washer
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  The cool finished cask store