Monday 5 November 2012

The surrealism of steel



This is where Duvel is brewed. It’s a space that reminds me of both a factory and a weird imagined space age emporium; high windows let the light in, but on the evening of my visit they keep the night at bay. There are metal pipes and tanks, a forest of pipes, a tenacity of tanks; a capacious submarine with its turbine and torpedo tubes and for just a moment I imagine the pitch and sway and roll of the sea, before coming to the hop store, where despite the tightly packed intimacy of sealed foiled packets, cardboard boxes, the aroma of the family of hops that Moortgat uses is a fragrant friendly ghost drifting through the air. 




4 comments:

  1. That's a Doctor Who set circa 1975!

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  2. I know the silver painted cardboard has lasted well

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  3. Fantastic photos. It's such a shame it has almost doubled in price at my local Sainsburys in the last 18 months. £1.29 up to I think around £2.30.

    Ben

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  4. Maybe they had to pay for some more steel…

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