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+<head>
+<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
+<title>G&ouml;sser Brauerei</title>
+<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../css/main2.css" />
+</head>
+<body>
+<h1>G&ouml;sser Brauerei</h1>
+
+<p>CUCC members visited the G&ouml;sser Brauerei at G&ouml;ss (just outside
+Leoben) for what is believed to be the first time on 26th July 2004 and
+excellent hospitality was received.  Here are some pictures from
+the brewery tour;
+click the pictures for larger versions (640x480).</p>
+
+<p>The brewery produces 40,000 crates of G&ouml;sser per day, but is
+remarkably quiet and spotlessly clean.
+Brewing occurs 24 hours
+a day in three 8-hour shifts, for five days a week.  The left-hand
+picture shows the entrance, whilst in the
+centre picture we see the large tower holding the malt silos.  The
+final picture shows the mash house, with the entrance below the clock.</p>
+<table width="100%">
+<tr>
+<td align="center"><a href="images/entrance.jpg">
+<img src="thumbs/entrance.jpg" alt="Entrance"></a></td>
+<td align="center"><a href="images/outside1.jpg">
+<img src="thumbs/outside1.jpg" alt="Outside view 1"></a></td>
+<td align="center"><a href="images/outside2.jpg">
+<img src="thumbs/outside2.jpg" alt="Outside view 2"></a></td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+
+<p>In the mash house, the malt is ground to grist on an upper level and
+then mixed with hot brewing liquor (known as water to the layman) from
+the local spring in the
+mash tuns.  Here it remains for two and a half hours, before it is transferred
+to the lauter tuns where the liquid part, known as wort, is extracted.
+After this, the wort is boiled for an hour with hops in the brew kettles.
+Then, it is passed through a whirlpool to separate solid matter.</p>
+
+<p>As far as we could tell, no additives such as sugars are used in the
+brewing process.  This is pleasing, especially for a brewery of its size.</p>
+
+<p>These pictures show mash and lauter tuns (not sure which ones are
+which) together with the computerised control system.  In the centre photo
+we see the tubes through which hops are transported from the upper level
+into the brewing kettles (not seen in the photographs).</p>
+<table width="100%">
+<tr>
+<td align="center"><a href="images/tuns1.jpg">
+<img src="thumbs/tuns1.jpg" alt="Mash tuns"></a></td>
+<td align="center"><a href="images/tuns2.jpg">
+<img src="thumbs/tuns2.jpg" alt="Mash tuns and hop transport"></a></td>
+<td align="center"><a href="images/controls.jpg">
+<img src="thumbs/controls.jpg" alt="Control panel"></a></td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+
+<p>The picture below shows an elderly copper mash tun, now unused in favour
+of stainless vessels.</p>
+<center>
+<a href="images/oldtun.jpg">
+<img src="thumbs/oldtun.jpg" alt="Old mash tun"></a></td>
+</center>
+
+<p>After whirlpooling, the wort is crash-cooled via a heat exchanger which
+in turn provides hot water (sorry, liquor) for the rest of the process.
+Then it is mixed with yeast and transferred into conical fermentation tanks,
+seen in the photo on the left below.  After fermentation, the beer is
+filtered in the equipment shown in the remaining two photos.</p>
+
+<table width="100%">
+<tr>
+<td align="center"><a href="images/fermenters.jpg">
+<img src="thumbs/fermenters.jpg" alt="Fermenters"></a></td>
+<td align="center"><a href="images/filter1.jpg">
+<img src="thumbs/filter1.jpg" alt="Filtration (1)"></a></td>
+<td align="center"><a href="images/filter2.jpg">
+<img src="thumbs/filter2.jpg" alt="Filtration (2)"></a></td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+
+<p>In addition to filling nitro-kegs, G&ouml;sser bottle not only
+their own beer but also that of other breweries.  When we visited,
+Puntigamer was being bottled as seen in the photos below.  The right-hand
+photo shows the machine which puts bottles into crates.
+You can also <a href="movies/bottling.mov">see a movie</a> (10Mb).</p>
+
+<table width="100%">
+<tr>
+<td align="center"><a href="images/bottling1.jpg">
+<img src="thumbs/bottling1.jpg" alt="Bottling (1)"></a></td>
+<td align="center"><a href="images/bottling2.jpg">
+<img src="thumbs/bottling2.jpg" alt="Bottling (2)"></a></td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+
+<p>Some other photos from around the brewery: on the left, a system of
+pipework which seemed to be used for receiving or dispatching beer to
+tankers; in the centre, some storage tanks; and on the right, an old
+lager cask.</p>
+
+<table width="100%">
+<tr>
+<td align="center"><a href="images/pipework.jpg">
+<img src="thumbs/pipework.jpg" alt="Pipework"></a></td>
+<td align="center"><a href="images/storage.jpg">
+<img src="thumbs/storage.jpg" alt="Storage vessels"></a></td>
+<td align="center"><a href="images/cask.jpg">
+<img src="thumbs/cask.jpg" alt="Old lager cask"></a></td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+
+<p>The brewery museum contains various interesting old equipment and
+even some adverts featuring the KH bunny!</p>
+
+<table width="100%">
+<tr>
+<td align="center"><a href="images/advert1.jpg">
+<img src="thumbs/advert1.jpg" alt="Advert (1)"></a></td>
+<td align="center"><a href="images/advert2.jpg">
+<img src="thumbs/advert2.jpg" alt="Advert (2)"></a></td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+
+<p>We came away with the impression of the brewery being particularly
+efficient: the solid matter remaining from the mashing and boiling is
+burnt (providing 25% of the energy for the plant) and the carbon dioxide
+from fermentation is harnessed for use in bottling.</p>
+
+<p>One last picture of all the CUCC folk who went:
+<center>
+<a href="images/everyone.jpg">
+<img src="thumbs/everyone.jpg" alt="Everyone">
+</a>
+</center></p>
+
+<p>Many thanks must go to Dipl. Ing. Andreas Werner, the G&ouml;sser
+Braumeister, together with
+Frau Schneeweis and our tour guide for the sponsorship and
+an excellent day out.</p>
+
+<hr>
+<ul id="links">
+<li>Back to <a href="../fester.htm">festering page</a></li>
+</ul>
+</body>
+</html>
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