title Apple's Adnams Brewery Birthday Tour, Southwold, Suffolk - 29th November 2012 intro It's Apple's 50th, so to celebrate he hires a coach to haul himself and another eleven hardcore real-ale drinkers from the Brome Swan over to the Adnams Brewery in the heart of Southwold. It's a good hour-and-a-half tour, broadly similar to one Nosher and Isobel did a couple of years ago, and finishes up with the ever-popular tasting session in the bar upstairs. Afterwards, we're off to the Red Lion on South Green for a spot of lunch. imgp7469 Milling around before the tour kicks off imgp7470 Suey and DH look at beer memorabilia imgp7471 John Willy reads up on Adnams history imgp7472 A collection of beer bottles imgp7474 A nice collection of Adnams pump signs imgp7476 Apple sits on a keg imgp7479 The gang stride over to the start of the tour imgp7480 Adnams Jack, stuck on a wall imgp7481 The tour starts outside the distillery imgp7484 A bit of a talk, in sight of the lighthouse imgp7485 Some Brewer's notes from 1914 imgp7487 Suey and Phil looks at a display imgp7489 A pile of old beer crates imgp7491 We move through the brewery tour imgp7495 Jill and Marc sniff hops imgp7496 Pippa and Alan sniff at some hop pellets imgp7498 A tangle of stainless-steel pipes imgp7500 Marc checks for any text action imgp7504 Marc peers into a fermenter imgp7506 A fermenting tank imgp7508 Some violent liquid movement occurs imgp7509 Paul looks around imgp7512 The Boy Phil on some steps imgp7513 Poking around some maturation tanks imgp7514 The tour continues imgp7515 The CO2 warning light flashes red imgp7516 An almost Escherian scene of stainless steel imgp7518 A dim rainbow over Southwold imgp7519 We head off to another building imgp7521 Old buildings and dark skies on Victoria Street imgp7522 More dark skies imgp7523 The gang mills around on Church Street imgp7525 Church Street, with Adnams' fake houses imgp7526 Part of the filling and kegging line imgp7528 The tour talk continues imgp7529 The kegging line imgp7531 Barrels are filled up with beer imgp7533 The tour ends up in the brewery bar imgp7535 The stock room imgp7537 A brewing ingredients matrix imgp7539 Colin has a slurp imgp7543 More beers are sampled imgp7545 Nosher with "Movember" special and Marc's hat imgp7547 Paul at the bar imgp7549 A bottle of vintage special beer is poured imgp7555 Jill does "cheers" imgp7558 Alan talks about the trade imgp7563 Paul and Marc on the stairs imgp7564 Adnams' brewhouse on East Green imgp7567 Southwold lighthouse and the Sole Bay Inn imgp7568 Adnams Distillery gets some new oak barrels imgp7573 Colin, Alan, John Willy and Apple imgp7574 Marc checks his phone in the Red Lion imgp7575 Pippa and Paul imgp7577 Apple is somewhat reserved imgp7579 Jill points to her "fish finger" baps imgp7580 Lunch at the Red Lion imgp7584 Apple and Pippa have a laff imgp7588 A vitreous trail of destruction imgp7591 Outside the Red Lion imgp7592 Outside the smaller Adnams shop imgp7593 Walking up Queen Street to the market place imgp7594 Paul and The Boy Phil roam around on Queen Street imgp7595 The market place imgp7599 Jill looks at stuff in the Adnams shop imgp7600 DH in the Adnams shop imgp7601 Marc looks a bit "meh" imgp7603 Apple and Sue arrive imgp7604 DH and Marc look at boxes that look like cheese imgp7606 Alan waits at the door imgp7608 The Adnams shop imgp7609 The gang spill out of the Adnams Kitchen shop imgp7610 Walking past Bartholomew Green imgp7612 There's a piano keyboard in a skip by St. Edmund's imgp7614 Nosher pull's Southwold Jack's bell string imgp7617 St. Edmund's Church, Southwold imgp7620 On the buses imgp7631 A rainy Halesworth imgp7636 Pippa on the bus imgp7638 Back at the Swan