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Burton Union Sets 16 years 1 month ago #1

tube Topic Author Offline Posts: 3438	Just got to reading about these yesterday, and I think I understand how they work. Fascinating stuff. Interesting that the last oak set is used for Marston's Pedigree. Anyone know does anyone else outside of Burton and that general area use Burton Union Sets, or similar? Were they ever used by any brewer in Ireland?

16 years 1 month ago #2

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Blacksheep use Yorkshire Square's. I don't know much about them or anything other than they are split level,a couple are slate lined and they need to recirculate the wort in the fermenters to keep the yeast in suspension.
and yes that does introduce oxygen which is generally seen as bad but seems to work for them.

&quot;Tube&quot;:2jnwx8d3 wrote: Fascinating stuff. [/quote:2jnwx8d3]

very interesting.good to see soem of it still being used,even if just from a historical point of view.

16 years 1 month ago #3

halite Offline Posts: 906	Just reading up a bit on these, here is a link to a homebrew version that I guy rigged up: [url:1appym7q]http://bullwinkle.gardnerweb.com/Beer/burtonunion.html[/url:1appym7q]

16 years 1 month ago #4

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&quot;halite&quot;:2x7wnpez wrote: Just reading up a bit on these, here is a link to a homebrew version that I guy rigged up:

[url:2x7wnpez]http://bullwinkle.gardnerweb.com/Beer/burtonunion.html[/url:2x7wnpez][/quote:2x7wnpez]

Came across that when I was reading about them, but the photos don't really get the idea across. Having said that it's very hard to get photos of a Burton Union Set, but here's two.

This is from the Bass brewery:

[img:2x7wnpez]http://www.search.staffspasttrack.org.uk/content/images/27/28/Resource/4743-0.jpg[/img:2x7wnpez]

And this is from Marston's. Notice the famous crosses on the barrels.

[img:2x7wnpez]http://www.realalenet.co.uk/images/4blogs/burtonunionset.jpg[/img:2x7wnpez]

Clustering, but for beer making, not computing!

More about the Bass one here
[url:2x7wnpez]http://www.search.staffspasttrack.org.uk/engine/resource/default.asp?resource=4743[/url:2x7wnpez]