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 |  |  | (Courage) Berkshire Brewery, Reading, UK
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|  | | | This is a bit of an old one I'm afraid, photos from October 2010. Unfortunately the entire site has now been demolished ready for a huge supermarket distribution centre to be built on top.
Courage & Co Ltd was started by John Courage at the Anchor Brewhouse in Horselydown, Bermondsey in 1787. It became Courage & Donaldson in 1797. By 1888, it had been registered simply as 'Courage'. In 1955, the company merged with Barclay, Perkins & Co Ltd (who were located at the nearby Anchor Brewery) to become Courage, Barclay & Co Ltd. Only five years later, another merger with the Reading based Simonds' Brewery led to the name changing to Courage, Barclay, Simonds & Co Ltd. This was simplified to Courage Ltd in October 1970 and the company was taken over by the Imperial Tobacco Group Ltd two years later.
Their vast Worton Grange (now Berkshire) Brewery was opened on the Reading/Shinfield border in 1978. The Anchor Brewery closed in 1981 and all brewing was transferred there. Imperial Tobacco was acquired by the Hanson Trust in 1986 and they sold off Courage to Elders IXL who were renamed the Foster's Brewing Group in 1990. The following year, the Courage section of Foster's merged with all the breweries of Grand Metropolitan. Its public houses were owned by a joint-company called Inntrepreneur Estates. Scottish & Newcastle purchased Courage from Foster's in 1995, creating Scottish Courage as its brewing arm. |
There's a BBC news article about the brewery closure here: http://news.bbc.co...586000/8586089.stm
These photos were taken over 2 trips, with the first being cut short after alarms and security van etc. There were 2 large warehouses full of packaged beer ready to be distributed to wherever, although it was the edge of one of these that one of us set an alarm off, so we didn't get to see it.  Some people did though.
The Brewhouse.
Brewhouse control centre.
Central control room.
Centrifuge operations.
CCT area - Cold Circulation/Concentration (I forgot) Tanks
Fermentation silos.
Yeast Storage Tanks.
Testing and tasting laboratories.
Packing - Canning
Production conveyor belts snake around over half of the building, from the filling lines to the packing machines.
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