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The front
of the brewery on Schnellerstrasse with the house to the right and
the office block to the left...
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The
buildings at the front of the brewery continue up the road until the
access road is reached at the west end of the site...
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An
abandoned crate and some empty bottles with the brewery logo still
clearly visible...
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In the main
yard after finding entry through a building on the access road...
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The tall
hall we found in the first building. I wonder what was in here that
required so much height?
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The spiral
staircase goes up in stages to the ceiling with an inspection or
access platform at each level...
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There's TJ
seemingly miles below!
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Outside
again we head for the front of the site...
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Was the
Garden Of Eden really this colourful or did the apple contain acid?
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In the distance is the
five story bottling plant and it's seven story tower...
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We thought
this pussycat graf was rather cute!
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Less so this "pig". It
seems the Politzei may not be particularly respected in Germany
either!
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Another
decorative tower, but this time it's on a building at the front of
the site. Sadly we could not find a way up.
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Perhaps a
slightly misleading title as the name implies a machine shop or the
like. This building is actually a brewing facility.
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A good
reason not to ur-ex at night! Heating pipes running to the front of
site from the boilers under the Maschinenhaus...
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We aren't
sure of the purpose of this hall. Boilers perhaps for the water to
brew?
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The stairs lead down into
the Maschinenhaus cellars...
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Pipe rails on the cellar
ceiling...
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A flat
leather or fabric belt would have run off this pulley to drive
machinery upstairs at one time...
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This tunnel
is the same one down which we could see on the drive outside.
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In the
brewing area proper now. The big walls supported the copper mash
tuns before they were removed for scrap.
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A mash tun
supporting wall...
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Cat walk and
pipe racks...
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Power
distribution bus bars...
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The walls
in the brewing rooms are all tiled for hygiene AND aesthetics...
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TJ on the
cat walk. I think the holes in the floor may have been to allow malt
and hops to be added to the mash tuns...
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Lucky Bella!
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At the top
of the building - but they are not header tanks. I think they may be
steam expansion cylinders.
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The rising pipe from
downstairs is rather heavy duty...
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As are the
cylinders themselves. Clearly they are built to withstand
considerable pressure.
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Emergency
cut out switch?
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I think TJ
didn't fancy the room upstairs...
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Funky
chicken? Yeah, it was defo acid!
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A steam
manifold?
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The brewing
area control room.
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Switches!
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Vertical
gauges...
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Over head pipes run off
to other buildings from the brewing area. the buildings to the right
of shot are those on the main road seen previously.
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Stencilled street art is
not as impressive as freehand but the results can still be very
good.
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The house...
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A top floor bathroom
overlooks the Maschinenhaus.
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The tiled
"box" in the corner is a wood burner typical in Germany, Slovakia
and Austria. It is stoked through the front doors and ash is removed
from the doors low down on the side.
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A
Lancastrian influence perchance?
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This graf
looks just like Barry from American Dad!
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A side window looks out
on the office block and a plaque giving the date of build.
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This plaque gives the
date of construction of the office block on Schnellerstrasse...
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Another
bathroom!
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On the way
down stairs to the house cellars now...
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A fuse box with the
peculiar East German neon screw in fuses we first encountered whilst
diving a DDR minesweeper sunk off Malta in 2008!
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In the
cellars...
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Libana is a town in Iraq
and the DDR had strong ties to Iraq before reunification. Was this
therefore a beer brewed for export to Iraq?
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Entering the office block
from the yard...
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The main
hall behind the offices proper is really airy with high ceilings...
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One of the offices...
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Heading
off upstairs in the office block now and it appears there was more
domestic living space here...
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An office
or a bedroom? This is the exquisite graffiti frieze created with
black self adhesive electrical insulation tape...
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Detail of a sailor...
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Only where the tape is
losing adhesion does it become obvious how this work of art was
created!
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This looks
like it was a large reception room at one time...
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Does anyone else think
this looks like Ena Sharples from Corrie circa 1968?
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Off we go
back down to the ground floor again!
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More krazy
DDR fuses!
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Es
wäre sehr akzeptabel
für dich mein leder
hosen bekleidet
Oberschenkel und arsch
jetzt Schlag auf!
Ja ja!
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A Radler glass - Radler
has no direct English equivalent but our shandy is quite close.
Radler is often made with orange or other fizzy soft drinks rather
than lemonade.
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Looking over to the west
of the brewery from a window on the office block top floor.
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Looking out over the
Schnellerstrasse, can you see the strange animal face in the window?
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The brewery yard and the
Maschinenhaus. We were unable to find a way into that section of the
building.
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Time to move
on!
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Back on the
office block ground floor now...
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The hand is poised to
riffle through the discarded paperwork of a century of brewing!
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Back at the
other end of the office block hall...
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More
discarded paperwork...
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A photo
copier or printer...
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This ornate
cupboard is actually a huge safe...
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Immaculately
hand written in Germanic script in a ledger.
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The
cellar washrooms in the office block.
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A large,
open building, possibly a warehouse, is situated next to the office
block...
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In der Tat,
was IST
Scientology? Vielleicht
Tom Cruise sollte
erleuchte uns!
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More heavy duty power
distribution!
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Heading for the yard
now...
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Passing the vehicle
loading bays on the way to the bottling plant...
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A large kitchen area,
probably for the staff canteen.
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Just waiting
for another brew to be made!
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This graf is very Gerald
Scarfe, "The Wall -esque...
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More acid
induced mayhem!
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They are either playing
Twister or some kind of squelchy game for grown ups.
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This delightfully
amusing graf is of a girl who clearly finds it extremely easy to get
"turned on"!!!.
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The
view of the bottling plant from the roof of the canteen.
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The vehicle workshop
behind the loading bay seen from the canteen roof...
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Discarded chipboard and old
furniture bars this route out of the canteen.
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Just inside
the entrance to the bottling plant we found this old games
machine...
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Up one
floor now and it's very dark in this vast open space left behind
after the machinery was salvaged.
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Old beer bottle labels
litter the floors everywhere in this building.
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This photo is slightly
off the vertical because it was taken with only a flash for
illumination in the stygian gloom!
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Old hop
sacks...
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Sacks of
activated charcoal for filtering lagers...
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I think this is a heat
exchanger to transfer the heat from steam piped into the building.
We saw something very similar indeed in Beelitz Heilstatten TB
sanatorium.
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Clean and tidy, comfy
chairs and Tea Light candles dotted about for lighting - this is a
rather "des rez" for Heinrich Ramps!
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The brewery
logo painted on the wall in the ramp Room.
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Almost at
the top of the bottling plant...
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An
interesting piece of street art!
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Naughty
Goofy!
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We saw
evidence of the same street artist's Irish themed work a few days
later at Heilstatten Grabowsee.
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Magnificent stair porn!
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Almost up at the top of
the bottling plant...
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It's a long
way back down - five floors in fact!
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The
vehicle workshop again from a different angle and height.
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Is this the
lift mechanism?
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Roof-topping
Barenquel style!
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M taking
piccies on the roof top.
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A last look
before heading over to the tower...
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Yet more flights of
stairs take you up two more floors to the panoramic viewing room at
the top of the bottling plant tower...
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...where you
can take in the view in both bad weather...
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..and fair!
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Looking west
across the brewery site.
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Looking
north east across to the River Spree.
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Back down we
go!
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Looking back
at the tower we have just
descended from!
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Which means:
"Beware! Truck
traffic".
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Which translates: "12
plant-man
medical corps". I would take this to be the
plant's medical team of 12 first-aiders.
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Ventilation or fluid
handling?
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I have
serious historical accuracy issues with this piece of graffiti - it
was impossible for T-Rex to smoke a cigar because his arms were too
short to light it!
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Time to go after a
relaxed and extremely interesting explore!
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