The Brewer's Playground

Despite the huge scale of the brewery; they’ve allowed a baby brewery in their visitor’s centre. There could be four different beers fermenting here waiting to be decanted. It has a strange background of tiled brick; which reminds me of my old council swimming pool. The bricked floor gives an impression of someone’s driveway; giving the impression that they’re brewing somewhere in between their backyard and a large industrial plant. These top secret brews are sold only at the heritage centre for MDs and taste testers to sample before a decision is made as to whether to brew this particular recipe on a larger scale. It could even be where the visiting brewers from abroad come to visit for the Wetherspoon beer festival. But it’s all fenced off; and there’s too many novelty wheels to turn on the fermenter; suggesting that it’s like a mad scientist tinkering in his shed. But it’s way too clean; and it’s there as if it’s been put on show as a museum piece.