Jennings Brewery

We went on an outing to visit the bottling plant then we visited this brewery in the same town.

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Here’s the Old mill that they don’t use anymore.

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Here’s the ‘New’ mill.

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Here’ a serious copper (boil kettle).

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A look inside.

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This gauge tells you how much liquid is in the kettle.

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It’s analogue. Notice the cable coming out of the copper. It’s a pulley driven gauge.

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Here’s an old heat exchanger. The inside was cooled with water and the wort ran down the outside of the cooler.

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These valves were how you got the sweet wort out of the mash tun.

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Hops at the ready.

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Our guide takes us into the fermentation room.

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IMG_6884 IMG_6883IMG_6882Then they took us down into the pub to let us see what they made there.

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