How to make 20,000 pints of beer.

Step 10 Credit where credit is due.

Naturally, I owe a massive debt of thanks to everybody at the Adnams brewery, especially:

• Fergus Fitgerald, Chief Brewer, who gave permission for the whole thing (but, unfortunately, could not be there the day I visited)
• Belinda Jennings, Quality Manager, who looked after me on the day, giving me access-all-areas and fitting me around her proper job and a visit by shareholders.
• Graham Gilbert and Colin Chambers, who kindly allowed me to take their photo whilst about their work.
• Thanks also to all the other staff at the brewery who put up with me trailing around the place like a lost drunk.

I know this whole thing looks like an advert for Adnams, but it really isn't meant to be, it's just an insite into how the Big Boys go about the craft of brewing.

Oh, I do recommend that you favour them with your business - Adnams beers are all in my top-ten favourite brews, and I tend to be fussy about what I drink.  They are also very environmentally aware as a company, producing a carbon-neutral brew, pioneering thinner bottles, and building a green-roofed warehouse, all of which got them crowned 'Carbon Innovator of the Year' by the Carbon Trust.


Oh, and about that field...

On the way to the brewery, I had a small, er, incident, and my Mini ended up in a field.  Belinda and a colleague, Paul Hester, very kindly came and pulled me out of the field (which is more than the AA would do, despite me being a member for twenty-five years this December!).  If they hadn't done that, then this Instructable would probably never have happened.

Comments

[Bazzatron]

So, the abbreviated guide would be something like....

1)Obtain brewery
2)Brew beer
3)repeat until 20,000 pints have been accumulated.
4)???????
5)profit.