Scott Povey from Fixed Wheel Brewery, Blackheath gives a tour of the premises.

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00:00Alright, hello, I'm Scott Povey from Fixed Wheel Brewery.

00:04We're based here in the Black Country, in Blackheath.

00:08We've been here 10 years, just gone, so brewing for 10 years.

00:12This side of the brewery here is what we call the hot side,

00:15so in the week we're using this brewing kit to produce our beer.

00:19We mainly produce cask beer, obviously quite big in the Black Country with cask beers.

00:25As you can see, it's just sort of getting things ready for this evening

00:28because we turn it into a bar at the weekends and we've got bands playing this evening and tomorrow.

00:34And then Monday we'll be packing it all away again to start the brewing process all over again,

00:39so it's kind of non-stop really.

00:41We've got two sides to the brewery, so this is the hot side,

00:46and then if you come through to this side, this is what we call the cool side.

00:50It's where all the fermentation happens in all these big silver tanks,

00:54and all the cask washing and all the music as well.

01:02Yeah, so this is where all the beer sits and ferments away,

01:04where all the magic happens once you're pitching the yeast.

01:07We use a few different yeast strains for our beers.

01:12And then once they come out of these and get packaged into casks and kegs,

01:15they get stored in here.

01:17This is probably the warmest room in the building really at this time of year.

01:22So, this is our cold store.

01:24That's all our casks and kegs in here.

01:27It's a bit empty this week after we've had a bit of a busy week selling beers.

01:31But it gets stored in here for a week or two before it goes out into trade,

01:36where you'll find it on nice hand pumps, so you can have a nice lovely drink.