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Our Hop Club hops have arrived and are ready to be collected-here’s how to grow your hops:

Position your Prima Donna hops in full sun or partial shade, in moist, well-drained soil. – Your plant will prefer neutral or alkaline loamy soil. Dig in some good compost and mulch in spring.- As a climbing plant, provide a trellis, arch or other supports. On the farm we grow our hops up traditional coir rope, available to buy here.- Cut back the plant to ground level in early autumn, it will remain dormant for winter.- Prime Donna has category H6 hardiness and […]

It’s that time of year again! Although last year, what with moving the Brewery and everything, we weren’t able to do our annual recruitment of new hop growers for our Hop Club, now we’re back and looking for a new cohort of growers. The hops grown by our members are harvested in September and used to flavour our ‘Local Hero’ ale.
Growing hops is really simple. If you can put a plant in the ground and water it occasionally, then you can grow hops. Already over 70 people are growing hops in their back gardens, balconies and allotments. Harvest day, when people bring their haul into the brewery and the whole […]