St Andrews, Argyle Street, Argyle Brewery View from WNW showing chimney and WSW front of NW block

Description St Andrews, Argyle Street, Argyle Brewery View from WNW showing chimney and WSW front of NW block

Date 15/7/1967

Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 595529

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Argyle Brewery from south-west, Argyle Street, St Andrews, Fife This brewery was founded in the early 19th century by D S Ireland, and was a good example of a country-town brewery, constructed round a courtyard. St Andrews was a thriving burgh in the early 19th century, and an important market town -both good circumstances for selling beer. This shows the brewhouse, with its chimney serving the boiler and coppers, and to the left a two-storeyed building with louvres for cooling the malt extract (wort) before fermentation. Before mechanical cooling was developed this was a common feature of both breweries and distilleries. In brewing, the malt extract was treated with hops before cooling. Most Scottish country breweries had succumbed to competition from the large urban brewers, and this one was no exception. It was demolished in the 1970s and the site turned into a car park. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H67/304/1B

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/595529

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