I'm surprised, that's almost three months earlier than usual?
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I'm surprised, that's almost three months earlier than usual?
Indeed, and a direct link here: Back To The Garden — How English Hop Growers Are Charting A New Path.
Several hop-related items in Countryfile on the BBC last week.
This one caught my eye in the Blog Tracker, and might be of interest to anybody with an interest in hops who didn't spot it there and wishes to know what a "Hopfaflicka" is!
Appellation Beer -...
Here's something different: Businessman capitalises on craft beer boom with hydroponic hop farm.
Well I never!
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That's very sad.
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So no more...
I hear Flimwell calling!
Keeping it semi-traditional down in Poperinge: Putting Hops on the Table in Belgium’s Westhoek.
Keeping it traditional down in West Kent: Larkins Brewery Hop Picking 2020.
Amid the heady aroma of lupulin from the freshly cut bines, here is the start of the East Kent hop harvest (in this case, most likely headed for Gadd's Ramsgate Brewery) in the curiously-named hamlet...
About time to see how the hops are getting on, and Wittenden should recognise where these healthy examples are growing:
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I wasn't planning another post here for a while, but what turned out to be a fool's errand because we went a year too late to find some hop gardens hidden away in the High Weald.
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For my last post on this thread for the time being, this oast is of special interest to me since it's the only one I've worked in, albeit just for one September and many decades ago...
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An important milestone in the hop-growing year is when the bines first reach the wirework trellis.
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This hop garden is showing even and vigorous growth at the end of May, way ahead of anything...
Having mentioned the largest and most impressive group of oasts in the country (and probably, with little or no exaggeration, the world), it must be worth a look at the oddest before I finish.
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The best-known hop production facility in the country must be the former Whitbread Hop Farm at Beltring, with four iconic Victorian oasts (known as Bells 1 to 4) each with five kilns. These were...
Some of you will be pleased to know that my keeping-busy-during-the-lockdown experiment to look at one beer-related story in more detail than previously done here (or almost anywhere else, so far as...
Yes.
Two very impressive 3½-storey buildings here, set at a right angle, each with two very large square 'kilns' at the far end.
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They both look like ginormous oasts, but are actually...
Having achieved our objective, we started back towards the starting point when we saw this vista as we walked through the rolling countryside north of Bodiam.
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With our attention initially...
(... later than planned due to a broadband outage last night...)
The next part of the walk took us to Bodiam, where the vast Guinness Hop Farms were once located on the slopes and plains of the...
So with plenty of hops (as well as all the vines) on this farm, what about the oast?
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This can be found in a rather higgledy-piggledy complex of farm buildings of all types and sizes, with...
Another long walk, this time on the Kent - East Sussex border, looking for one hop farm and other (more famous) former hop gardens, produced plenty of interesting things to look at.
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I got rather side-tracked over the weekend with the ArtUK site which aims to display all the artworks in public collections across our 'united' kingdom.
You can now 'curate' your own collection...