Copper mashing tun

I had the good fortune today to be invited along to Bank's Brewery with a friend who was taking photographs for a local art exhibition. This shows a copper mashing tun that is dated from 1969 and is still in use today.

The brewery is much older as Mr. Thomas Banks, first established Banks & Co. as a firm of maltsters in 1840, before in 1874 venturing into brewing with his son and two other employees. In 1875 the company founded the now famous Park Brewery on the site of an artesian well in Wolverhampton. This site is still the home of Banks's today, with many of the buildings remaining intact, including the old chimney that can be seen on the city skyline.

The history and heritage isn't confined to the buildings either, for the live strain of yeast in all Banks's cask ales has been in use for over 100 years.

It was quite a busy day as I later visited former work colleagues for lunch and caught up on news. Picked up Rose from school and then onto zumba.