This is Sam, Hello Sam, hello. Cold today though isn't it, why am I talking about weather to
a horse?
Well good morning, it's day three of our Great West Way trip and we're in Devizes
marina and behind me you can see the the canal
boats. Don't know if you can see on the camera, the marina is frozen and the are
forecasting snow later. Hopefully we'll get where we're going by then but first
stop today is the brewery. We''re going to take a
brewery tour. Wadworth brewery tour in Devises - Day three of the Great West Way. When the brewery was
first built back in 1885 it was very very small compared to what it is today, it
was this tower block just there, the little blue door
just there, that you've all just come in. So very very small. Anything with the Wadworth name is
only brewed here in Devizes, we don't brew anywhere else at all now in front
of us here we have 2 mash tuns, this mash tun you see here is an original
it's made of cast iron and it dates back to 1885 when the brewery was first built.
In the moment when we move around you'll see there's another mash tun behind
which dates back to 1960 and it's made of stainless steel now these two vessels
together as you can see produce 300 brewers barrels which equates to 86,400
pints. Well we're in the fermentation room
and that tank behind me 'Horizon' was only put in the tank
yesterday the 30th of January so that's
quite pale compared to the older ones made a few days earlier that's the same one
'Horizon' on the 28th, a bit darker
So it's Archie the shire horse, I don't think he's that impressed to see me at
the moment. He's not interested. Hello we're in a town called Great Bedwyn and we're
gonna to stop for lunch at The Three Tons, little country pub behind me.
We're now on the North Wessex Downs as you can see, at this level there's quite a lot of
snow around. Apparently there's more snow coming in tonight so we're lucky the road is
still clear but look at this countryside it's amazing.
Hello from a very chilly Yattendon near Reading, it's a really picturesque,
quintessential English village so we'll see how it goes.
We are staying here tonight at the Royal Oak
Yattendon and that we're having dinner in the restaurant as well, but I'm
gonna go inside now because the room was lovely and warm let's go.
This is our room really nice and cosy and warm isn't it Mel after being on the
North Wessex Downs it was freezing up there beautiful view, but freezing and now
we've got a few hours before dinner so I'm gonna have a cup of tea and watch
Pointless. They are forecasting aren't they, We will have to stay Marcus.
Welcome to day four on the Great West Way and we're still in Yattendon and
we were gonna go on a canal cruise from Newbury today but as you can see the
weather's turned a bit wintry it's really pretty though look at this it's
like the start of a Working Title film by Richard Curtis so anyway Day 4 on
the Great West Way and because of the weather, we're going to cut it a bit
short and head home because the roads are pretty bad, but still it's a very rare
occurrence in the UK to get weather like this. But if you are here it does look
really pretty. Time for breakfast before we go home.