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Alloa, Whins Road, Alloa Brewery
Brewery (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Alloa, Whins Road, Alloa Brewery
Classification Brewery (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 150707
Site Number NS89SE 165
NGR NS 8890 9305
NGR Description Centred NS 8890 9305
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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Alloa, Whins Road, Brewery View from NNE of roadway with hop store and brine mixing areas on right, lager maturation area on left with walkway from fermentation area over roadway. The hop store was originally the granulated sugar stores until liquid sugar was introduced in the 1970s
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Alloa, Whins Road, Brewery View from SW (Ring Road) showing kegging and packaging area with lager store area tower behind. The kegging plant had been removed to Leeds by the date of visit
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Alloa, Whins Road, Brewery, Brewhouse, interior, basement View of underside of mash tun no. 2. with trub vessel on right. The trub vessel contains deposits left after the wort is pumped from the copper to the whirlpool where residual sediments are removed by a centrifuge
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9/9/1999
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Alloa, Whins Road, Brewery, Water Treatment Plant, interior View of mains water filter system (Candy) showing carbon filter nos. 1 and 2 with sand filters nos. 1 and 2 beyond. This area lies to the S of the Barns Block basement.
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Alloa, Whins Road, Brewery, Fermentation Room No. 1, interior View of square fermentation vessels. Cooled wort pumped from the paraflow heat exchangers would be pumped into each of these 28 stainless steel square fermentation vessels. Note the hangers coming from the ceiling. The stainless steel piping that carried the wort from the paraflow was suspended from these hangers, although it had been removed by the date of visit. Yeast from yeast production vessels nos. 4 and 5 (which are not visible in this view) is injected into to the fermentation vessels. Yeast uses soluble sugars in the wort to produce carbon dioxide and alcohol giving beer its 'fizz' and strength. Ales are fermented for 3-4 days and lagers for 5-7 days. The beer is then drawn off to be matured. Each vessel holds 120 barrels or half a brew
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9/9/1999
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Alloa, Whins Road, Brewery View of walkway linking fermentation block and maturation/lager storage area. One of the four 900 barrels (or 260 000 pints) fermentation vessels (installed 1970s) is just visible on the right
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9/9/1999
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Alloa, Whins Road, Brewery General view from E showing from left to right, brewhouse, brewhouse pend with mill room intake and distribution area above, chimney and spent grain silo. The spent grain silo takes the grain from the lauter tun in the brewhouse and is used as cattle feed
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9/9/1999
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Alloa, Whins Road, Brewery View from SW of S frontage of brewhouse
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Alloa, Whins Road, Brewery View from NNW of main switch room buildings with carbon dioxide tank behind, chimney and mill room area over brewhouse pend. The building which housed the switch gear dates from 19th-century. The carbon dioxide from the tank was used in the brewing finishing process, whereby it was used to pressurise vessels and keg containers
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9/9/1999
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Alloa, Whins Road, Brewery, Barns Block, ground floor, interior View of panel showing operation of malt handling plant
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9/9/1999
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Alloa, Whins Road, Brewery, Barns Block, fourth floor, interior View of top of the malt bins and grain silos. The intake conveyor is visible in the background. The four malt bin shutes are on the right. The intakes to the nine silos are partially visible on the left. Bin 'E' (where the mix of crystal, chocolate and bulk malt is mixed) is also situated on third/fourth floors
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Alloa, Whins Road, Brewery, Mill Room area, second floor, interior View showing the screen of the Miag six roller, 3.3 tonnes per hour throughput malt/grist mill. Here the malt is mixed and spread out in preparation for grinding. Grist case 1 which stores the grist for oridinary lager and ale brews is situated behind the camera
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9/9/1999
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Alloa, Whins Road, Brewery, Brewhouse, interior, lauter tun area View from E of 18 run off taps. This allows the wort to run into the underback and thence to the boiling copper for further heating and addition of liquid sugar and other additives
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9/9/1999
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Alloa, Whins Road, Brewery General view from E showing from left to right, brewhouse, brewhouse pend with mill room intake and distribution area above, chimney and spent grain silo. The spent grain silo takes the grain from the lauter tun in the brewhouse and is used as cattle feed
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9/9/1999
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Alloa, Whins Road, Brewery View from NW of general engineering fitters shop and metal store with administration area above
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9/9/1999
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Alloa, Whins Road, Brewery View from NNW of main switch room buildings with carbon dioxide tank behind, chimney and mill room area over brewhouse pend. The building which housed the switch gear dates from 19th-century. The carbon dioxide from the tank was used in the brewing finishing process, whereby it was used to pressurise vessels and keg containers
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9/9/1999
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Alloa, Whins Road, Brewery, Barns Block, first floor, interior View of bottom of the four 5 tonne malt bins dating from 1950s with automatic rotary valves installed in 1994 (these give measured amounts of grain). These bins hold chocolate and crystal malts which are measured. These are then mixed in malt bin 'E' with bulk grain and carried by conveyors to the mill room for milling. All the systems are incorporated into an automatic controlled Redler conveyor and elevator system
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9/9/1999
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Alloa, Whins Road, Brewery, Mill Room area, top floor, interior View showing intake and distribution area of mill room area. Note intake duct carrying malted barley mix from the fourth floor of the Barns Block c.120 metres away. The grain is conveyed to the Buhler destoner, in the foreground of the picture, which sorts out foreign bodies from the malt mix by vibrating at a rate of 4000 r.p.m. Any foreign bodies (metalwork, stones etc.) falls into a sack attached to the mouth of the destoner of which can be seen in the foreground. The malt to be milled is removed by means of a 'screw' visible in the middle foreground and conveyed to a screen below which feeds the Miag malt mill
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9/9/1999
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Alloa, Whins Road, Brewery, Brewhouse, Lauter Tun mezzanine floor area, interior View of interior of lauter tun showing rakes and sparge arms (above). Wort from mash tun no.1 (water and malt mix from grist case no. 1) or mash from the Steeles Masher (malt mix from grist case no.2) is sparged with hot liquor to help release all the sugars from the wort (malted grain and hot liquor mix). Note the slotted stainless steel sectioned bottom which allows the wort to run through into the underback, via 18 holes which connect to run-off taps. The rakes can be angled to self empty the draff (spent grain) towards the pondorf unit which removes the draff by compressed air (through a hole in the floor of the Lauter tun). The draff is then sent along ducting to the external spent grain silo. This spent grain is used for cattle feed
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Alloa, Whins Road, Brewery, Maturation/lager storage area 1-6, interior, third floor View of row of maturation storage vessels. The area consists of forty-eight 330 barrel and eighteen 450 barrel stainless steel tanks. Here the lager or ale is matured and stabilised at a low temperature before filtration. Regfrigeration is achieved by the use of ammonia compressors, brine or glycol
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9/9/1999
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Alloa, Whins Road, Brewery General view of main gate from E, note 19th- century two-storey, three by two bay dressed rubble gatehouse. Engineers shops are to the left of the gatehouse building with an administrative area on the first floor
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9/9/1999
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Alloa, Whins Road, Brewery View from NW of NW end of lager maturation area with two of the ten stainless steel Dual Purpose Vessels (DPVs) behind. DPVs both ferment the wort and condition the lager/ale in the same vessel. Each vessel holds 650 barrels and were installed in 1994
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9/9/1999
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Alloa, Whins Road, Brewery, Barns Block, ground floor, interior View of original 1950s control panel for malt handling and mixing process. This was superceeded by electronic controls installed in 1980s
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9/9/1999
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Alloa, Whins Road, Brewery, Mill Room area, top floor, interior View showing intake and distribution area of mill room area. Note intake duct carrying malted barley mix from the fourth floor of the Barns Block c.120 metres away. The grain is conveyed to the Buhler destoner, in the foreground of the picture, which sorts out foreign bodies from the malt mix by vibrating at a rate of 4000 r.p.m. Any foreign bodies (metalwork, stones etc.) falls into a sack attached to the mouth of the destoner of which can be seen in the foreground. The malt to be milled is removed by means of a 'screw' visible in the middle foreground and conveyed to a screen below which feeds the Miag malt mill
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9/9/1999
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Alloa, Whins Road, Brewery, Mill Room area, first floor, interior View showing Miag six roller, 3.3 tonnes per hour throughput malt/grist mill. Here the malt is ground in preparation for mashing. The resulting grist is stored in grist case 1
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9/9/1999
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Alloa, Whins Road, Brewery, Mill Room area, first floor, interior View showing Avery weighing machine and original control panel relating to the malt mill. The weighing machine is a double check of what is coming into the mill and is then compared to the total weight of malt mix conveyed from the Barns Block
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9/9/1999
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Alloa, Whins Road, Brewery, Brewhouse, first floor, interior View showing brewhouse from W with its four traditional copper vessels. Mash tuns 1 and 2 are nearest the camera, the boiling copper (capacity of 220 barrels, which is a 'brew') and the lauter tun (19 feet 8 inches in diameter, 19 tons when empty, 45 tone when full) are visible. Hot liquor is run into mash tun no. 1 and some of this is pumped up into the copper tube carrying the malt mix from grist case no. 1. The liquor and partially mixed malt and liquor is mixed (with paddles) and heated to a pre-determined temperature for a pre-determined time before the resultant wort is pumped into the lauter tun and thence to the copper. Mash tun no. 2 (until 1980s a Decoction vessel or secondary mash vessel) was latterly used to heat liquor for the sparging process. The last mash took place on 19th/20th April 1999 but the brewhouse was re-commissioned for a mash which took place on 14th December 1999 when the Caledonian Brewery was damaged in a fire. The brewhouse coppers were installed in 1955 and were made by Christian Berner of Gothenburg, Sweden
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9/9/1999
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Alloa, Whins Road, Brewery, Brewhouse, lauter tun area, interior View of lauter tun level gauge. Three of the 18 manually operated run-off taps from the lauter tun are visible on the left
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9/9/1999
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Alloa, Whins Road, Brewery View of walkway linking fermentation block and maturation/lager storage area. One of the four 900 barrels (or 260 000 pints) fermentation vessels (installed 1970s) is just visible on the right
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9/9/1999
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Alloa, Whins Road, Brewery, Maturation/lager storage area 1-6, interior, third floor View of row of maturation storage vessels. The area consists of forty-eight 330 barrel and eighteen 450 barrel stainless steel tanks. Here the lager or ale is matured and stabilised at a low temperature before filtration. Regfrigeration is achieved by the use of ammonia compressors, brine or glycol
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9/9/1999
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Alloa, Whins Road, Brewery View from NW of NW end of lager maturation area with two of the ten stainless steel Dual Purpose Vessels (DPVs) behind. DPVs both ferment the wort and condition the lager/ale in the same vessel. Each vessel holds 650 barrels and were installed in 1994
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9/9/1999
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Alloa, Whins Road, Brewery View from NNW of NW frontage (rear) of main gatehouse/administration area which dates in part from the pre-1950s reconstruction
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9/9/1999
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Alloa, Whins Road, Brewery, Barns Block, basement floor, interior View of bottom of the nine 45 tonne grain silos. Bulk grain was stored here until a mix is required by the mill room. The correct ratio of chocolate, crystal and bulk are mixed and sent to the weigh hopper (or bin 'E') on the top floor
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Alloa, Whins Road, Brewery, Brewhouse, mezzanine floor, interior View showing heat exchanger (left), chilled liquor (water) tank right. First floor mill room area beyond. Here, the heat exchanger chills liquor (town water supply) to two degrees centigrade which is then used for heat transfer in the paraflow room (to cool the wort prior to entering fermentation). The recycled water is pumped into the chilled liquor vessel.
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9/9/1999
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Alloa, Whins Road, Brewery, Brewhouse, mezzanine floor, interior View showing chilled liquor heat exchanger left and chilled liquor vessel behind.
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9/9/1999
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Alloa, Whins Road, Brewery, E wall of Brewhouse Detail of tablet commemorating the opening of the reconstructed brewery by Inde Coope group of companies in 1958
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9/9/1999
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Alloa, Whins Road, Brewery General view from E showing from left to right, brewhouse, brewhouse pend with mill room intake and distribution area above, chimney and spent grain silo. The spent grain silo takes the grain from the lauter tun in the brewhouse and is used as cattle feed
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9/9/1999
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Alloa, Whins Road, Brewery, Barns Block, ground floor, interior View of original 1950s control panel for malt handling and mixing process. This was superceeded by electronic controls installed in 1980s
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9/9/1999
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Alloa, Whins Road, Brewery, Barns Block, first floor, interior View of bottom of the four 5 tonne malt bins dating from 1950s with automatic rotary valves installed in 1994 (these give measured amounts of grain). These bins hold chocolate and crystal malts which are measured. These are then mixed in malt bin 'E' with bulk grain and carried by conveyors to the mill room for milling. All the systems are incorporated into an automatic controlled Redler conveyor and elevator system
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9/9/1999
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Alloa, Whins Road, Brewery, Brewhouse, mezzanine floor, interior View showing chilled liquor heat exchanger left and chilled liquor vessel behind.
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9/9/1999
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Alloa, Whins Road, Brewery, Brewhouse, lauter tun mezzanine floor area, interior View showing Steeles Masher as it enters the Lauter Tun. This was added in 1986 when Castlemaine 4X lager began to be brewed on site under licence to Perkins of Brisbane, Australia. Grain stored in Grist Case 2 (which sits on roof of brewhouse) is fed by conveyor to the Steeles Masher. The grist is mixed here with water from Mash Tun no.2 into a thick consistency. More hot liquor is then pumped in from Mash Tun no. 2. The liquid sugar tanks are situated below this area
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9/9/1999
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Alloa, Whins Road, Brewery, Brewhouse, interior, lauter tun area View from E of 18 run off taps. This allows the wort to run into the underback and thence to the boiling copper for further heating and addition of liquid sugar and other additives
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9/9/1999
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Alloa, Whins Road, Brewery, Brewhouse, interior, basement View of underside of mash tun no. 2. with trub vessel on right. The trub vessel contains deposits left after the wort is pumped from the copper to the whirlpool where residual sediments are removed by a centrifuge
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9/9/1999
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Copy of annotated plan layout of The Alloa Brewery. Messrs Archibald Arrol and Sons Ltd
1947
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Alloa, Whins Road, Brewery General view of main gate from E, note 19th- century two-storey, three by two bay dressed rubble gatehouse. Engineers shops are to the left of the gatehouse building with an administrative area on the first floor
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9/9/1999
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Alloa, Whins Road, Brewery General view from NNE showing from left to right, Dual Purpose Vessels, Maturation area/lager storage area, tanker bay (for loading ales/lager from packaging area), brewhouse (with grist case no. 2 on roof, right)
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Alloa, Whins Road, Brewery View from SW on roof of the fermentation block looking towards the mill room (with hipped roof and cast-iron ridge decoration) and chimney beyond. The galvanised duct visible in the middle foreground carries the malt 'mix' from the fourth floor E gable of the Barns Block (out of shot on the left) to the mill room for milling
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Alloa, Whins Road, Brewery View from N on roof of brewhouse pend area of spiral heat exchanger (or copper vapour heat recovery process). The steam is fanned through the spiral heat exchanger which heats cold water going through it to about 85 degrees centigrade and is run into the tank (foreground). This hot liquor is then sent to the hot liquor tanks for use in the brewing process
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Alloa, Whins Road, Brewery, Mill Room area, first floor, interior View showing Miag malt/grist mill showing rollers and drive shaft. Here the malt is milled or ground in preparation for mashing
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Alloa, Whins Road, Brewery, Mill Room area, first floor, interior View showing Avery weighing machine and original control panel relating to the malt mill. The weighing machine is a double check of what is coming into the mill and is then compared to the total weight of malt mix conveyed from the Barns Block
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9/9/1999
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Alloa, Whins Road, Brewery, Brewhouse, lauter tun mezzanine floor area, interior View showing Steeles Masher as it enters the Lauter Tun. This was added in 1986 when Castlemaine 4X lager began to be brewed on site under licence to Perkins of Brisbane, Australia. Grain stored in Grist Case 2 (which sits on roof of brewhouse) is fed by conveyor to the Steeles Masher. The grist is mixed here with water from Mash Tun no.2 into a thick consistency. More hot liquor is then pumped in from Mash Tun no. 2. The liquid sugar tanks are situated below this area
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9/9/1999
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Alloa, Whins Road, Brewery View from NNW of brick and concrete four-storey and basement, ten by four bay Barns Block grain handling area. Note railway lines in foreground. Grain originally came in by rail by means of a branch line from the Edinburgh-Stirling Line which ran along the N side of the brewery site. Latterly, grain was brought in by road. The grain is unloaded into the hopper opening visible between the rails (foreground) and is moved by an elevator system up to the top floor of the grain handling area. This building still carries the (painted out) name of the Arrol family who were involved in operating the brewery from 1866 until 1951
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Alloa, Whins Road, Brewery General view from SE, with lager store area to right
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Alloa, Whins Road, Brewery, Brewhouse, mezzanine floor, interior View showing heat exchanger (left), chilled liquor (water) tank right. First floor mill room area beyond. Here, the heat exchanger chills liquor (town water supply) to two degrees centigrade which is then used for heat transfer in the paraflow room (to cool the wort prior to entering fermentation). The recycled water is pumped into the chilled liquor vessel.
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9/9/1999
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Alloa, Whins Road, Brewery, Brewhouse, lauter tun area, interior View of lauter tun level gauge. Three of the 18 manually operated run-off taps from the lauter tun are visible on the left
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9/9/1999
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Alloa, Whins Road, Brewery, Fermentation Room No. 1, interior View of square fermentation vessels. Cooled wort pumped from the paraflow heat exchangers would be pumped into each of these 28 stainless steel square fermentation vessels. Note the hangers coming from the ceiling. The stainless steel piping that carried the wort from the paraflow was suspended from these hangers, although it had been removed by the date of visit. Yeast from yeast production vessels nos. 4 and 5 (which are not visible in this view) is injected into to the fermentation vessels. Yeast uses soluble sugars in the wort to produce carbon dioxide and alcohol giving beer its 'fizz' and strength. Ales are fermented for 3-4 days and lagers for 5-7 days. The beer is then drawn off to be matured. Each vessel holds 120 barrels or half a brew
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9/9/1999
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Alloa, Whins Road, Brewery, Fermentation Room No. 2, interior View of fermentation vessels. Cooled wort from the paraflow would be pumped into one of these eight stainless steel fermentation vessels, with each vessel capable of holding one brew (220 barrels). This, together with an identical arrangement on the floor above and fermentation room no. 1, increases the fermentation capacity. Additional capacity came with the four 900 barrel fermenters (installed in 1970s) and the ten 650 barrel dual purpose vessels (installed 1994)
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9/9/1999
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Alloa, Whins Road, Brewery View from NNW of former reception centre and conference area (foreground, boarded up), and brewhouse pend with part of mill room area above. The plant refrigeration and carbon dioxide recovery building is visible on the right
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Alloa, Whins Road, Brewery View from NNW of four 900 barrel fermenting vessels and lager storage area (maturation, cooler, beer recovery areas). The vessels on the extreme left had been removed from the brewery and were for sale on the date of survey
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Alloa, Whins Road, Brewery, Barns Block, ground floor, interior View of original 1950s control panel for malt handling and mixing process. This was superceeded by electronic controls installed in 1980s
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9/9/1999
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Alloa, Whins Road, Brewery, Brewhouse/Mill Room area, ground floor, interior View showing weigh hopper below malt mill. This is a double check weigher. From here, the grist is measured out and sent to grist case 1 (on 2nd floor of mill area) by elevator until it is needed in the brewhouse. Note the ducts (below right) for filling sacks from the dust extractor for disposal.
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Alloa, Whins Road, Brewery, Fermentation Room No. 2, interior View of fermentation vessels. Cooled wort from the paraflow would be pumped into one of these eight stainless steel fermentation vessels, with each vessel capable of holding one brew (220 barrels). This, together with an identical arrangement on the floor above and fermentation room no. 1, increases the fermentation capacity. Additional capacity came with the four 900 barrel fermenters (installed in 1970s) and the ten 650 barrel dual purpose vessels (installed 1994)
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Alloa, Whins Road, Brewery View from NNW of former reception centre and conference area (foreground, boarded up), and brewhouse pend with part of mill room area above. The plant refrigeration and carbon dioxide recovery building is visible on the right
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Alloa, Whins Road, Brewery General view of brewery from NE, main gatehouse/administration block left, DPV (Dual Purpose Vessels) right of centre. These ten stainless steel 650 barrel vessels incorate three thirty barrel yeast tanks and ferment and condition both lager and ales in one vessel. These were installed in 1994-5. From these, the ale or lager is pumped to the filtration area and thence to either tankers or kegging area for packaging
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Alloa, Whins Road, Brewery View from NNW of NW frontage (rear) of main gatehouse/administration area which dates in part from the pre-1950s reconstruction
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Alloa, Whins Road, Brewery View from NW of general engineering fitters shop and metal store with administration area above
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Alloa, Whins Road, Brewery View from NNW of former reception centre and conference area (foreground, boarded up), and brewhouse pend with part of mill room area above. The plant refrigeration and carbon dioxide recovery building is visible on the right
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Alloa, Whins Road, Brewery View from NNW of former reception centre and conference area (foreground, boarded up), and brewhouse pend with part of mill room area above. The plant refrigeration and carbon dioxide recovery building is visible on the right
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Alloa, Whins Road, Brewery View from N on roof of brewhouse pend area of economiser. The boilers on site use gas or oil to make steam. Two to three weeks oil supply is kept on site, as gas supply can be interrupted at peak use times. The fumes resulting from the boiler heat the cold water in coils within the exchanger and this heated water goes to the hot liquor tank for use in the brewing process
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Alloa, Whins Road, Brewery, Barns Block, third floor, interior View from NE showing intake area to four 5 tonne malt bins which contained crystal and chocolate malts. These were mixed with bulk grain and sent to a separate silo, bin 'E' which would then be conveyed to the mill area.
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Alloa, Whins Road, Brewery, Barns Block, third floor, interior View from NE showing intake area to four 5 tonne malt bins which contained crystal and chocolate malts. These were mixed with bulk grain and sent to a separate silo, bin 'E' which would then be conveyed to the mill area.
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Alloa, Whins Road, Brewery, Mill Room area, first floor, interior View showing Miag six roller, 3.3 tonnes per hour throughput malt/grist mill. Here the malt is ground in preparation for mashing. The resulting grist is stored in grist case 1
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Alloa, Whins Road, Brewery, Brewhouse, first floor, interior View from E showing the boiling copper (nearest the camera) and the two mash tuns beyond. The wort is pumped from the mash tun to the lauter tun (behind the camera) and then into the copper where hops and liquid sugar are added to make final ales or lagers. The copper has an external wort boiler or Collandria, which was added in 1994. This gives a more vigorous mash. The copper has an automatic level indicator in the form of a rod which rises as the copper fills up
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Alloa, Whins Road, Brewery, Wort Cooling area, interior View of two stainless steel paraflow or heat exchangers which can deal with some 135 barrels per hour. After the wort is pumped from the whirlpool it is cooled, using chilled liquor, from boiling point to about 10-16 degrees centigrade (depending on the brew) in about 2 hours. The cooled wort is then be transferred to the fermentation area. Other stainless steel vessels on the right are used in the routing of detergents around the brewery (not in situ)
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Alloa, Whins Road, Brewery, Fermentation Room No. 1, interior View of square fermentation vessels. Cooled wort pumped from the paraflow heat exchangers would be pumped into each of these 28 stainless steel square fermentation vessels. Note the hangers coming from the ceiling. The stainless steel piping that carried the wort from the paraflow was suspended from these hangers, although it had been removed by the date of visit. Yeast from yeast production vessels nos. 4 and 5 (which are not visible in this view) is injected into to the fermentation vessels. Yeast uses soluble sugars in the wort to produce carbon dioxide and alcohol giving beer its 'fizz' and strength. Ales are fermented for 3-4 days and lagers for 5-7 days. The beer is then drawn off to be matured. Each vessel holds 120 barrels or half a brew
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Alloa, Whins Road, Brewery, E wall of Brewhouse Detail of tablet commemorating the opening of the reconstructed brewery by Inde Coope group of companies in 1958
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Alloa, Whins Road, Brewery View from SE of brewhouse (with grist case no. 2 on roof, right), chimney and boiler house block. The bore hole housing is the flat roofed building on the right. The bore hole provides water for cooling the refrigeration compressors. The water for brewing is taken from the mains and is filtered through the Candy water filtration system on site
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Alloa, Whins Road, Brewery, Brewhouse, interior, lauter tun area View from E of 18 run off taps. This allows the wort to run into the underback and thence to the boiling copper for further heating and addition of liquid sugar and other additives
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Alloa, Whins Road, Brewery, Brewhouse, lauter tun area, interior View of lauter tun level gauge. Three of the 18 manually operated run-off taps from the lauter tun are visible on the left
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Alloa, Whins Road, Brewery, Brewhouse, interior, first floor View of information board
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Alloa, Whins Road, Brewery General view of brewery from NE, main gatehouse/administration block left, DPV (Dual Purpose Vessels) right of centre. These ten stainless steel 650 barrel vessels incorate three thirty barrel yeast tanks and ferment and condition both lager and ales in one vessel. These were installed in 1994-5. From these, the ale or lager is pumped to the filtration area and thence to either tankers or kegging area for packaging
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Alloa, Whins Road, Brewery View from SE of brewhouse (with grist case no. 2 on roof, right), chimney and boiler house block. The bore hole housing is the flat roofed building on the right. The bore hole provides water for cooling the refrigeration compressors. The water for brewing is taken from the mains and is filtered through the Candy water filtration system on site
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Alloa, Whins Road, Brewery View from SW (Ring Road) showing kegging and packaging area with lager store area tower behind. The kegging plant had been removed to Leeds by the date of visit
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Alloa, Whins Road, Brewery, Barns Block, ground floor, interior View of panel showing operation of malt handling plant
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Alloa, Whins Road, Brewery, Barns Block, basement floor, interior View of bottom of the nine 45 tonne grain silos. Bulk grain was stored here until a mix is required by the mill room. The correct ratio of chocolate, crystal and bulk are mixed and sent to the weigh hopper (or bin 'E') on the top floor
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Alloa, Whins Road, Brewery, Brewhouse, interior, first floor View of information board
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Alloa, Whins Road, Brewery, base of E wall of Brewhouse Detail of date stone from original 1810 brewery buildings
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Alloa, Whins Road, Brewery General view of brewery from NE, main gatehouse/administration block left, DPV (Dual Purpose Vessels) right of centre. These ten stainless steel 650 barrel vessels incorate three thirty barrel yeast tanks and ferment and condition both lager and ales in one vessel. These were installed in 1994-5. From these, the ale or lager is pumped to the filtration area and thence to either tankers or kegging area for packaging
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Alloa, Whins Road, Brewery View from NNW of brick and concrete four-storey and basement, ten by four bay Barns Block grain handling area. Note railway lines in foreground. Grain originally came in by rail by means of a branch line from the Edinburgh-Stirling Line which ran along the N side of the brewery site. Latterly, grain was brought in by road. The grain is unloaded into the hopper opening visible between the rails (foreground) and is moved by an elevator system up to the top floor of the grain handling area. This building still carries the (painted out) name of the Arrol family who were involved in operating the brewery from 1866 until 1951
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Alloa, Whins Road, Brewery View from N on roof of brewhouse pend area of economiser. The boilers on site use gas or oil to make steam. Two to three weeks oil supply is kept on site, as gas supply can be interrupted at peak use times. The fumes resulting from the boiler heat the cold water in coils within the exchanger and this heated water goes to the hot liquor tank for use in the brewing process
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Alloa, Whins Road, Brewery, Barns Block, ground floor, interior View of dust extractor, grain elevator (1996 - showing buckets) and part of the malt handling system. The dust from the grain is drawn by a vacuum through the extractor into 'socks' whose contents are then emptied into collection bags for disposal
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Alloa, Whins Road, Brewery, Barns Block, ground floor, interior View of panel showing operation of malt handling plant
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Alloa, Whins Road, Brewery, Barns Block, fourth floor, interior View of top of the malt bins and grain silos. The intake conveyor is visible in the background. The four malt bin shutes are on the right. The intakes to the nine silos are partially visible on the left. Bin 'E' (where the mix of crystal, chocolate and bulk malt is mixed) is also situated on third/fourth floors
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Alloa, Whins Road, Brewery, Barns Block, third floor, interior View from NE showing intake area to four 5 tonne malt bins which contained crystal and chocolate malts. These were mixed with bulk grain and sent to a separate silo, bin 'E' which would then be conveyed to the mill area.
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Alloa, Whins Road, Brewery, Brewhouse, first floor, interior View showing brewhouse from W with its four traditional copper vessels. Mash tuns 1 and 2 are nearest the camera, the boiling copper (capacity of 220 barrels, which is a 'brew') and the lauter tun (19 feet 8 inches in diameter, 19 tons when empty, 45 tone when full) are visible. Hot liquor is run into mash tun no. 1 and some of this is pumped up into the copper tube carrying the malt mix from grist case no. 1. The liquor and partially mixed malt and liquor is mixed (with paddles) and heated to a pre-determined temperature for a pre-determined time before the resultant wort is pumped into the lauter tun and thence to the copper. Mash tun no. 2 (until 1980s a Decoction vessel or secondary mash vessel) was latterly used to heat liquor for the sparging process. The last mash took place on 19th/20th April 1999 but the brewhouse was re-commissioned for a mash which took place on 14th December 1999 when the Caledonian Brewery was damaged in a fire. The brewhouse coppers were installed in 1955 and were made by Christian Berner of Gothenburg, Sweden
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Alloa, Whins Road, Brewery, Wort Cooling area, interior View of two stainless steel paraflow or heat exchangers which can deal with some 135 barrels per hour. After the wort is pumped from the whirlpool it is cooled, using chilled liquor, from boiling point to about 10-16 degrees centigrade (depending on the brew) in about 2 hours. The cooled wort is then be transferred to the fermentation area. Other stainless steel vessels on the right are used in the routing of detergents around the brewery (not in situ)
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Alloa, Whins Road, Brewery General view of main gate from E, note 19th- century two-storey, three by two bay dressed rubble gatehouse. Engineers shops are to the left of the gatehouse building with an administrative area on the first floor
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Alloa, Whins Road, Brewery General view from NNE showing from left to right, Dual Purpose Vessels, Maturation area/lager storage area, tanker bay (for loading ales/lager from packaging area), brewhouse (with grist case no. 2 on roof, right)
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Alloa, Whins Road, Brewery View from NNW of brick and concrete four-storey and basement, ten by four bay Barns Block grain handling area. Note railway lines in foreground. Grain originally came in by rail by means of a branch line from the Edinburgh-Stirling Line which ran along the N side of the brewery site. Latterly, grain was brought in by road. The grain is unloaded into the hopper opening visible between the rails (foreground) and is moved by an elevator system up to the top floor of the grain handling area. This building still carries the (painted out) name of the Arrol family who were involved in operating the brewery from 1866 until 1951
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Alloa, Whins Road, Brewery View from NNW of four 900 barrel fermenting vessels and lager storage area (maturation, cooler, beer recovery areas). The vessels on the extreme left had been removed from the brewery and were for sale on the date of survey
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