A look at how beer is made in a microbrewery
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Brewer Chrigl Luthy cleans out the malt and spent grain from the mash tun used in the brewing process to create an India Pale Ale at The Kernel microbrewery in London on Oct 17, 2012. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
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Brewer Chrigl Luthy cleans out the malt and spent grain from the mash tun used in the brewing process to create an India Pale Ale at The Kernel microbrewery in London on Oct 17, 2012. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
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Brewer Chrigl Luthy cleans out the malt and spent grain from the mash tun used in the brewing process to create an India Pale Ale at The Kernel microbrewery in London on Oct 17, 2012. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
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Brewer Jonah Schulz pours hops into the copper used in the brewing process to create an India Pale Ale at The Kernel microbrewery in London. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
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Brewer Joby Williams monitors the beer as it is piped into the fermentation tanks used in the brewing process to create an India Pale Ale at The Kernel microbrewery in London. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
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Brewers Toby Munn (left) and Joby Williams stir the malts in the mash tun used in the brewing process to create an India Pale Ale at The Kernel microbrewery in London on Oct 17, 2012. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
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Brewers Joby Williams checks a sample of the wort, a sugary solution by-product of the brewing process, during the creation of an India Pale Ale beer at The Kernel microbrewery in London. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
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Brewer Joby Williams breaks up the hops used in the brewing process to create an India Pale Ale beer at The Kernel microbrewery in London. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
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Brewer Joby Williams breaks up the hops used in the brewing process to create an India Pale Ale beer at The Kernel microbrewery. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
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Brewer Chrigl Luthy carries a bag of malt used in the brewing process to create a beer at The Kernel microbrewery in London on Oct 17, 2012. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
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Brewer Chrigl Luthy places a keg of beer onto trolley at The Kernel microbrewery in London on Oct 17, 2012. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
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A box of beer is seen at The Kernel microbrewery in London on Oct 17, 2012. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Brewer Chrigl Luthy cleans out the malt and spent grain from the mash tun used in the brewing process to create an India Pale Ale at The Kernel microbrewery in London on Oct 17, 2012. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Brewer Chrigl Luthy cleans out the malt and spent grain from the mash tun used in the brewing process to create an India Pale Ale at The Kernel microbrewery in London on Oct 17, 2012. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Brewer Chrigl Luthy cleans out the malt and spent grain from the mash tun used in the brewing process to create an India Pale Ale at The Kernel microbrewery in London on Oct 17, 2012. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Brewer Jonah Schulz pours hops into the copper used in the brewing process to create an India Pale Ale at The Kernel microbrewery in London. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Brewer Joby Williams monitors the beer as it is piped into the fermentation tanks used in the brewing process to create an India Pale Ale at The Kernel microbrewery in London. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Brewers Toby Munn (left) and Joby Williams stir the malts in the mash tun used in the brewing process to create an India Pale Ale at The Kernel microbrewery in London on Oct 17, 2012. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Brewers Joby Williams checks a sample of the wort, a sugary solution by-product of the brewing process, during the creation of an India Pale Ale beer at The Kernel microbrewery in London. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Brewer Joby Williams breaks up the hops used in the brewing process to create an India Pale Ale beer at The Kernel microbrewery in London. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Brewer Joby Williams breaks up the hops used in the brewing process to create an India Pale Ale beer at The Kernel microbrewery. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Brewer Chrigl Luthy carries a bag of malt used in the brewing process to create a beer at The Kernel microbrewery in London on Oct 17, 2012. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Brewer Chrigl Luthy places a keg of beer onto trolley at The Kernel microbrewery in London on Oct 17, 2012. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
A box of beer is seen at The Kernel microbrewery in London on Oct 17, 2012. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
LONDON (Reuters) - A single vat bubbles languidly in the corner, while the air in the small, high-ceilinged space under a south London railway arch slowly fills with a zesty, hoppy smell, as the latest batch of Black India Pale Ale gradually ferments.
This is the Kernel microbrewery, one of many new kids on the British beer block who are bucking the downward national trend in beer drinking.
