hop farm – Brook House Hops

Hop Trading and Exchange in the Age of the Pandemic

Posted on 17 June 202019 April 2022 by Andy Garbett

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...

Brook House Hops Vastly Increases Acreage in Deal

Posted on 15 January 202019 April 2022 by Andy Garbett

Good news has never been far away recently and after a successful first 18 months of trading and a positive annual hop walk last August, we recently invested over £100,000 into new equipment and are now expanding three fold by increasing our acreage into neighbouring Worcestershire. The owner of Britain’s largest area of hop farm...

Yakima Valley Research Visit – November 2019

Posted on 28 November 201919 April 2022 by Andy Garbett

Several members of the Brook House Hops team spent a few weeks on the road in the US during November. We try really hard to differentiate on quality, which means we buy hops pelletised at the source in Yakima and invest in selection. Hopefully this means that our customers can brew tasty, fresh beer. We...

The Story of Brook House Hops

Posted on 30 October 201919 April 2022 by Andy Garbett

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...

English Hops are Underrated

Posted on 2 October 201919 April 2022 by Andy Garbett

The British have been growing hops since the 16th century, but intense hop flavours have dominated the craft beer industry in recent years, often sourced from the USA. We believe English hops are vastly underrated and we want to explain why. Perhaps we can even encourage a few of you to use more of them...

Time to Celebrate with our First Ever Annual Hop Walk

Posted on 25 September 201917 June 2021 by Andy Garbett

Based just beside the stunning Malvern hills, just off a country lane in Bromyard, Brook House Hops are a hidden gem in the Herefordshire countryside. Boasting just shy of 100 acres of hop fields, we have been selling our UK hops to brewers all over the country since last year but this year was our...