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Alloa, Whins Road, Alloa Brewery

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Photographs and Off-line Digital Images D 61083 Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu 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 9/9/1999 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images D 61085 Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu 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 9/9/1999 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images D 61087 Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu 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 9/9/1999 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images D 61089 Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu 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) 9/9/1999 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images D 61090 Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu 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 9/9/1999 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images D 61091 Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu Alloa, Whins Road, Brewery View from SW of S frontage of brewhouse 9/9/1999 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images D 61092 Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu 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 9/9/1999 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images D 61093 Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu 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 9/9/1999 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images D 61094 Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu 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 9/9/1999 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images D 61095 Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu Alloa, Whins Road, Brewery View from NW of general engineering fitters shop and metal store with administration area above 9/9/1999 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images D 61096 Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu 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 9/9/1999 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images D 61098 Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu 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 9/9/1999 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images D 61099 Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu 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 9/9/1999 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images D 61101 Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu 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 9/9/1999 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images D 61103 Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu Alloa, Whins Road, Brewery General view from SE, with lager store area to right 9/9/1999 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images D 61105 Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu 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 9/9/1999 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images D 61106 Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu 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 9/9/1999 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images D 61107 Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu 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 9/9/1999 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images D 61108 Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu 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 9/9/1999 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images D 61109 Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu 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 9/9/1999 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images D 61110 Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu Alloa, Whins Road, Brewery, Barns Block, ground floor, interior View of panel showing operation of malt handling plant 9/9/1999 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images D 61112 Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu 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 9/9/1999 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images D 61114 Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu 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 9/9/1999 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images D 61115 Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu 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 9/9/1999 Item Level