October 2001: An empty shell!
January 2002: The vessels arrive!
February 2002: It's getting exciting!
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The brewery building was formerly the carbon bunker for Kinlochleven's
aluminium smelter - hence the huge concrete storage silos that still remain
high above the brewery.
As you can see, when we took possession of the building, Kinlochleven
Land Development Trust had already tidied it up. They'd cleaned
it of all traces of its previous life, put in large modern glass walls
and arch windows, and a concrete floor for our vessels to stand on.
Then, on 3rd January 2002, our vessels started to arrive from their previous
life at a brewery in Watford in the south of England. Naturally
enough for Kinlochleven, it was raining that day - but rain's a good omen
in Chinese folklore so we weren't that despondent.
The next two months resembled trying to fit together a three-dimensional
jigsaw puzzle... we had to teach ourselves about tig welding, burner flues,
augers and all sorts of new things...
Eventually, the brewery was complete and we brewed our first beers (Latitude
and Tempest) at the end of February 2002.
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