This week we head back to the hop farm from our feature length documentary, The Time Is Now, to find out if prospects have improved for hop farmers. We talk climate change, taste changes, and visit the secret nursery where new varieties are being trialled.
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24 Comments
Great update. Inspired by last year’s film, we planted 3 hop rhizomes. Having watched them grow throughout the spring and summer, we’re just waiting on the final days of bottle fermentation before we can taste our home grown hopped, home brew. Thanks for the inspiration 🍻
Good video guys intresting to see the dedication hop growers have in their product
This should be the benchmark that all other documentaries should be measured against. Entertaining, informative, well produced, and personable. Brilliant, well done CBC.
Great video, why can't we grow the same hops as they do in New Zealand, isn't the weather similar ???
Tried the channels collab with Verdant. And it was a fantastic beer
Top story. I only brew with British hops and am excited about the possibilities with the new varieties. Cheers!
I’m surprised, and love, to see the Shipyard Brewing parasol behind you while you’re drinking Now IPA!
Damn, that's alot of experimental hobs in that nursery!
I've said it before, but I'll say it again. Youtube really needs to invent smell'o'video. Breaking all those cones must have been very interesting.
And the good ol' tapping of the can is still there. Cheers!
I owe so much of my growing knowledge and love for craft beer to you guys! Thanks a bunch!
Brilliant work chaps, love jester and harlequin in my homebrew and have just ordered the new batch of Now IPA. Keep championing British ingredients 😁
Loving the support for our producers 👍 fascinating video guys keep up the good work.
A first rate episode, Mates. A nice sequel to last year's documentary. Thanks so much! I am American, but I am rooting for our cousins across the pond. You guys, Jonny and Brad, are the protectors of the British beer culture, and you are doing a wonderful job. Keep up the good work!
YouTube need s 5x Thumbs Up button. This channel does such good beer docus.
American here but I love British ales and have kinda refocused my homebrewing to make an effort to brew more traditional British styles.
Physically I'm infront of my laptop, in the middle of work. Mentally I'm rocking on a hammock under the shade of the hop bines. Manifesting?😂
Maybe I missed something but……Why is there a push to find a replacement for Saaz?
Brilliant as always! I absolutely love your documentaries🍻
I've got to say I did really enjoy the Buxton brewery 50 fifty series they did mixing American hops with UK hops. I thought it was a great concept getting people into UK hops but still having that American roots. And it's not bad for a super market beer (shame it didn't make it into your supermarket ipa blind taste test 😉)
Don't foreign producers pay for their water? Why aren't English hops cheaper without this overhead. I've never been a fan of most traditional British beer, the Yanks and German's do it better. I put it down to my dislike of the tobacco like astringency in the bitterness of the finish. Where does this come from? Is it a style brewers create deliberately or is down to a specific ingredient? I never get this flavour from foreign beers except very slightly in Pilsner Urquell and Budvar which makes me think it's a style thing. I've also tasted British beer which doesn't have it.
Great video thanks. My gut feeling is that the heritage varieties are globally unique and not everyone likes or will continue to like the big US hopped beers. UK new style hops will struggle to compete with US alternatives, no? Stick with what grows well and uniquely here, methinks. I'm a fan of mixing trad UK and US hops too.
Global heating??
Yessss, friday again here. Making Vegan burgers 🍔 and my all time favorite beer (westmalle tripel) all while making and baking watching this wonderful episode. 🍻 cheers. Enjoy your weekend lads 🤟🏼
I like British beers best. I am tired of all the ales I drink tasting like grapefruit since I left the UK.
Fascinating. I have said it before in a previous video that I live in Whitstable and so next to Faversham, the home of Shepherd Neame. I love cycling along the lanes and see what I am assuming are East Kent Goldings, Fuggles and Bramling Cross etc. Sadly, it seems that some of the hop gardens are not replanted each year and this is so sad. There are also orchards, vineyards and plenty of oast houses, making East Kent one of the loveliest places to live in the world. One of my dreams would be to go back in time and see the steam train arrive at Faversham with the families from the East End who came a’hoppin. I can recommend a book to you, Jonny- it’s called Hopping by Melanie McGrath and tells the story of such a family. A great read and very poignant. Keep up the good work.