Introducing Low Carbon Hops
Brook House Hops launch revolutionary new Low Carbon Hop product that preserves hops without the need for kiln-drying.
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Hop Farmers of the Year!
Will Kirby and Henry Smith win Hop Farmer of the Year at the Three Counties Food & Farming Awards.
Yakima Chief Hops Achieves Patent on Cryo Hops® Process
Yakima Chief Hops achieves patent status on Cryo Hops® process. The minimalistic handling and low oxygen environment are ideal for preserving quality and producing the highest alpha product, a key component to brewing delicious hoppy beers.
New Partnership with US Based Yakima Chief Hops
We have some great news for what has been a very strange year so far – we have recently partnered as a product distributor for the UK with Yakima Chief Hops (YCH) of Yakima, Washington in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. A 100% farmer owned global hop supplier, Yakima Chief Hops has...
Hop Trading and Exchange in the Age of the Pandemic
Coronavirus, Covid-19, pandemic – all words we don’t really want to hear right now, since the months of lockdown have started to blur into a haze of lost memories and, for many businesses, lost income. Here at Brook House Hops, we’ve been affected by the boatload as you can imagine, due to our place as...
Tap Social Movement: A Case Study
Founded in 2016, Tap Social Movement grew out of a passion for good beer and social justice. When they went out looking for hops to use in their brews, they came across Brook House Hops and over the years since, a flourishing working relationship has developed. Head brewer, Jason Bolger explains: “I searched online for...
Dark Beers for Dark Nights – A History and Exploration
We’ve noticed that a lot of local beer houses have been holding special dark beer events and dark beer festivals since the nights started drawing in in November. There also seems to be more availability of dark ales and speciality, often stout or porter based craft beers. So it got us to thinking: why is...
The Story of Brook House Hops
As a team running a hop farm, we have a surprising amount of career history between us in stockbroking, investments, tech start-ups and enterprise software. So where did the hop journey begin? The Career Change into Hops First things first: there’s Will. Will is our owner and the farmer at Brook House Farm. Will used...