“I like to be actually concerned with the beer instead of being a brewery where it’s all push button. You’re actually concerned with it here, in amongst it all the time.” David Clarke, brewer.
Until a generation ago, the magnificent pagoda-like tower of the local brewery was a familiar landmark of the English country town, and even in the city its remarkable architecture and heady aroma added to the visual variety and richness of life. Today that compact and economical tower brewery, an integral part of the agricultural and industrial framework of the 19th century, is something of a rarity. In the heart of the Cotswolds at Hook Norton, Oxfordshire, the Clarke family still operates from a splendid red-brick fortress fulfilling the role of traditional English country brewers.
This gentle film follows the traditional brewing process from start to finish.
Credit to : BBC Archive