Magic Rock Brewing Co.

Posted by: pdtnc on: November 11, 2011

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One of Huddersfield’s newest breweries is Magic Rock , Rich is the boss who you might already know of from myBrewerytap, Stu is Head Brewer (Famed for eating Pork Pies on Youtube), recent addition is Scott the Drayman.

I’m not going to waffle on about Magic Rock too much when there is a great article in the Independent by Will Hawkes.
Needless to say, Magic Rock are brewing some stunningly excellent beers with my current personal favourite being ‘Highwire’ a thoroughly hop-forward & dry-hopped mouth coating loveliness of a beer.
The brewery was built and installed by www.malrexfabrication.co.uk who, as you can see from the following photos, have done a very professional job.

Its a bugger of a job making a Glass & Bottle look good with a torch in the kitchen!

From Left to right and anti-clockwise, Mash Tun, Bottom of Copper, Hopback:

I’m sure on the inside there is a sticker that says ‘Caution – Hop Surface’:

Bottoms of two conical fermenters:

The long-legged gas-fired Copper boiler:

Wort flow sight-glass and pipework, wort from the mash tun is re-circulated for clarity before being pumped to the copper:

Stu & Scott preparing the ‘Curious NZ’ hops for the Hopback:

Top of the copper:

Fermenter top hatch:

Another angle of the copper, through the plastic flaps is the Malt Loft; you can just see the grist case which is above the mash tun downstairs:

Filling the Hopback with lots of lovely whole-leaf hops:

Obligatory Sight Glass shot:

Two of the other fermenters, front filled with tasty Imperial Stout and the back has RockStar (the MagicRock & DarkStar collaboration brew):

Check them out on Twitter…
@MagicRockBrewCo @MagicRockRich @MagicRockStu @MagicRockScott @MagicRockJonny

Thanks for talking the time out of your day to let me take photos and talk beer ‘n brewing, it was good to hear Stu’s alternate views on yeast. I’m sure I learned a few things from you all 🙂

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