LOCAL INDUSTRIES.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 4171, 3 August 1874, Page 3

LOCAL INDUSTRIES.

MESSRS. MACE AND ABKELL’s CITY BREWERY, We are always glad to have to chronicle the institution of new local industries, and have therefore much pleasure in noticing the brewery recently established by Messrs. Mace & Arkell. The rapid strides, of late, made by Wellington seem to have suggested this as a profitable field of enterprise to these gentlemen. The idea was acted upon, and the result has been the establishment of a brewery, complete in its appliances and accessories. The premises formerly occupied by Messrs. A. P. Stuart & Co. have been selected as the scene of operations, and prove eminently adapted for the purpose. In the topmost story is a large vat, capable of containing 2000 gallons. In this, the water is boiled by means of steam. The efficiency of this agent will be understood when we mention that this great body of water can be raised to boiling heat, by its means, in the short space of one hour. At a lower level is a large mash tub, and over this is the malt hopper, into which the malt is discharged from the mill by means of elevators. Attached to the hopper, there is a patent mixing machine,, a recent invention, in which the boiling water and malt are mixed and discharged into the mash tub. This is fitted with a false bottom of perforated iron, through which the wort is" drawn off, quite clear, into another large vat, where it is boiled with the hops. After being boiled, the wort is conveyed, by a pipe, to the patent 'refrigerator. This consists of twentythree fold of continuous copper piping, If inches in diameter, carried in perfectly horizontal folds, the lower side of each fold being furnished with teeth, which distribute the wort evenly and exactly on the centre of the fold below. The water (cold) enters the piping at the bottom, and after traversing these twenty-three folds is discharged by superior pressure from the top fold of the refrigerator, so that the wort is cooled gradually, and by the time it reaches the lowest fold is of no higher temperature than the water used for the cooling process. On the basement are the malt mill, (capable of crushing 100 bushels an hour) the engine, and boiler. This last, which supplies all the steam required in the various processes, is from the foundry of Messrs. Mills & Co., and would do credit to any in the old country. Over the engine-house is the malt store, where 1000 bags can be conveniently stowed away. The cellarage is largo and cool, and will accommodate 150 hogsheads. The water used is from the City waterworks, and excellently adapted for brewing purposes, as the quality of the article turned out fully proves. . We must congratulate Messrs. Mace and Arkell ou the quality of their maiden brew. If they succeed in keeping their beer up to that standard, we shall expect to see it take a rank second to none in the Colony. Both partners in this new Wellington firm have been among the most enterprising business men of the Frovince of Westland, since that part of the Colony, was settled ; and Mr. Arkell was the practical and successful superintendent of the largest brewing establishment on the West Coast.