Went here the other day.
Where I’m currently moored has a history of brewing, particularly of ales. When I went into town, I was constantly reminded of this, so decided to do some investigation; in the first instance by visiting the local brewery museum.
It used to be owned by Bass, which incidentally registered the first trademark, and incidentally again was used as part of one of the website logos that I designed.
Isn’t that a coincidence…
National brewery museum
Now the museum is called the National Brewery Museum and cost £10 to enter.
We parked the boat at Shobnall marina, and were going to walk in. It’s not a pleasant walk, it’s mostly main road
Instead, took a taxi the driver giving us a history of Burton since 1960 en-route.
The museum itself is full of machinery, vats and paraphernalia associated with a malt based brewing process.
Kids find these large pieces of machinery very interesting.
They used to drive around in this giant barrel dropping off kegs.
The kids jumped on these, and were fiddling around. Continue reading “Burton Brewery Museum”