Milling around before the tour kicks off
Apple's Adnams Brewery Birthday Tour, Southwold, Suffolk - 29th November 2012
It's Apple's 50th, so to celebrate he hires a coach to haul himself and another eleven hardcore real-ale drinkers from the Brome Swan over to the Adnams Brewery in the heart of Southwold. It's a good hour-and-a-half tour, broadly similar to one Nosher and Isobel did a couple of years ago, and finishes up with the ever-popular tasting session in the bar upstairs. Afterwards, we're off to the Red Lion on South Green for a spot of lunch.
next album: The Beaconsfield Arms Beer Festival, and a Rainy Day, Diss and Occold - 30th November 2012
previous album: A Christmas Fair at St. Mary's Church, Diss, Norfolk - 24th November 2012
Suey and DH look at beer memorabilia
John Willy reads up on Adnams history
A collection of beer bottles
A nice collection of Adnams pump signs
Apple sits on a keg
The gang stride over to the start of the tour
Adnams Jack, stuck on a wall
The tour starts outside the distillery
A bit of a talk, in sight of the lighthouse
Some Brewer's notes from 1914
Suey and Phil looks at a display
A pile of old beer crates
We move through the brewery tour
Jill and Marc sniff hops
Pippa and Alan sniff at some hop pellets
A tangle of stainless-steel pipes
Marc checks for any text action
Marc peers into a fermenter
A fermenting tank
Some violent liquid movement occurs
Paul looks around
The Boy Phil on some steps
Poking around some maturation tanks
The tour continues
The CO2 warning light flashes red
An almost Escherian scene of stainless steel
A dim rainbow over Southwold
We head off to another building
Old buildings and dark skies on Victoria Street
More dark skies
The gang mills around on Church Street
Church Street, with Adnams' fake houses
Part of the filling and kegging line
The tour talk continues
The kegging line
Barrels are filled up with beer
The tour ends up in the brewery bar
The stock room
A brewing ingredients matrix
Colin has a slurp
More beers are sampled
Nosher with 'Movember' special and Marc's hat
Paul at the bar
A bottle of vintage special beer is poured
Jill does 'cheers'
Alan talks about the trade
Paul and Marc on the stairs
Adnams' brewhouse on East Green
Southwold lighthouse and the Sole Bay Inn
Adnams Distillery gets some new oak barrels
Colin, Alan, John Willy and Apple
Marc checks his phone in the Red Lion
Pippa and Paul
Apple is somewhat reserved
Jill points to her 'fish finger' baps
Lunch at the Red Lion
Apple and Pippa have a laff
A vitreous trail of destruction
Outside the Red Lion
Outside the smaller Adnams shop
Walking up Queen Street to the market place
Paul and The Boy Phil roam around on Queen Street
The market place
Jill looks at stuff in the Adnams shop
DH in the Adnams shop
Marc looks a bit 'meh'
Apple and Sue arrive
DH and Marc look at boxes that look like cheese
Alan waits at the door
The Adnams shop
The gang spill out of the Adnams Kitchen shop
Walking past Bartholomew Green
There's a piano keyboard in a skip by St. Edmund's
Nosher pull's Southwold Jack's bell string
St. Edmund's Church, Southwold
On the buses
A rainy Halesworth
Pippa on the bus
Back at the Swan
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Milling around before the tour kicks off
Milling around before the tour kicks off
Suey and DH look at beer memorabilia
John Willy reads up on Adnams history
A collection of beer bottles
A nice collection of Adnams pump signs
Apple sits on a keg
The gang stride over to the start of the tour
Adnams Jack, stuck on a wall
The tour starts outside the distillery
A bit of a talk, in sight of the lighthouse
Some Brewer's notes from 1914
Suey and Phil looks at a display
A pile of old beer crates
We move through the brewery tour
Jill and Marc sniff hops
Pippa and Alan sniff at some hop pellets
A tangle of stainless-steel pipes
Marc checks for any text action
Marc peers into a fermenter
A fermenting tank
Some violent liquid movement occurs
Paul looks around
The Boy Phil on some steps
Poking around some maturation tanks
The tour continues
The CO2 warning light flashes red
An almost Escherian scene of stainless steel
A dim rainbow over Southwold
We head off to another building
Old buildings and dark skies on Victoria Street
More dark skies
The gang mills around on Church Street
Church Street, with Adnams' fake houses
Part of the filling and kegging line
The tour talk continues
The kegging line
Barrels are filled up with beer
The tour ends up in the brewery bar
The stock room
A brewing ingredients matrix
Colin has a slurp
More beers are sampled
Nosher with 'Movember' special and Marc's hat
Paul at the bar
A bottle of vintage special beer is poured
Jill does 'cheers'
Alan talks about the trade
Paul and Marc on the stairs
Adnams' brewhouse on East Green
Southwold lighthouse and the Sole Bay Inn
Adnams Distillery gets some new oak barrels
Colin, Alan, John Willy and Apple
Marc checks his phone in the Red Lion
Pippa and Paul
Apple is somewhat reserved
Jill points to her 'fish finger' baps
Lunch at the Red Lion
Apple and Pippa have a laff
A vitreous trail of destruction
Outside the Red Lion
Outside the smaller Adnams shop
Walking up Queen Street to the market place
Paul and The Boy Phil roam around on Queen Street
The market place
Jill looks at stuff in the Adnams shop
DH in the Adnams shop
Marc looks a bit 'meh'
Apple and Sue arrive
DH and Marc look at boxes that look like cheese
Alan waits at the door
The Adnams shop
The gang spill out of the Adnams Kitchen shop
Walking past Bartholomew Green
There's a piano keyboard in a skip by St. Edmund's
Nosher pull's Southwold Jack's bell string
St. Edmund's Church, Southwold
On the buses
A rainy Halesworth
Pippa on the bus
Back at the Swan