Brewhouse has a Mash Conversion Vessel, Lauter Tun, Copper and Whirlpool as well as a hop infusion vessel. The brew length is 90hl. If I remember rightly they're currently brewing twice a day.
They have a four roller mill.
More space is devoted to packaging.
There were lots of casks soaking when we visited as they'd come back skanky. If only publicans would cork them cleaning would be a lot less effort!
The cask washer was bought by Bath Ales from St Austell, so when St Austell bought Bath Ales they bought back their old kit!
Here's underneath the brewhouse:
And there's the hop infusion vessel:
The flow plate looks pleasingly simple:
The bottling line looks very flash, but as is a tradition or an old charter or something it wasn't running when we were there.
They've got a cross flow filter from Pentair which doesn't need a centrifuge. One of the talks at the seminar provided information on this and I really must write it up for the blog. I know Alan has a keen interest in kieselguhr free filtration.
How is a mash conversion vessel different from a mash tun?
ReplyDeleteMCVs have an agitator and a steam jacket so can carry out temperature stepped mashes, but they don't have a slotted base like a mash tun so the mash is pumped to the lauter tun for wort separation.
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