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From stubble to stubble - A year atWoodhouse Farm, Oxfordshire
By: Michael Parsons
01/12/2009
On Sunday 26th July, the 11.7ha Poor’s field contributed 86.7 tonnes of winter barley to the 2009 Northern Hemisphere malting barley statistic.
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The long and winding road - The 2009 barley outlook in Europe
By: Alan Ridealgh
01/12/2009
When Munton’s opened its new intake facilities at Bridlington, the Editor of this magazine introduced me to someone with the words: “...and Alan has been writing the UK Crop Report for many years...it is always pessimistic.” I have to admit to feeling shocked at this statement! Is this true or am I just misunderstood?
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Copper uncovered: The distiller’s material of choice – for now
01/12/2009
Copper has been the material of choice in distilling for many years. It was originally chosen due to two key physical properties. It is malleable allowing it to be easily shaped into stills and is an excellent conductor of heat. In contrast to today, it was also a metal which was widely available at the time. In selecting copper, this has in fact proved to be a choice which in retrospect shaped the flavour of both malt and grain Scotch whiskies as we know them today.
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A good year in America
By: Derek Prell
01/12/2009
US growers managed to overcome the odds to finish with a high quality crop and better than expected production given the obstacles in the 2009 production year.
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Fresh hops at Devizes
By: Brian Yorston
01/12/2009
Malt ‘n’ Hops is the original harvest hop beer having been developed by my predecessor Trevor Holmes and brewed at Wadworth in Devizes since 1992.
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Swaying in the breeze ... or swinging in the storm
By: Paul Corbett
01/12/2009
It would be nice to think that hop growers could get sufficient information to be able to grow enough hops to keep everyone happy but not so many that there is a worldwide glut. This has always been done with forward contracts and has worked reasonably well with growers planting enough hops to achieve their contract commitments.
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A year in Herefordshire hops - Hop growing Extracts from a hop grower’s diary...
By: John Andrews
01/12/2009
John and Gill Andrews have farmed at Townend farm Bosbury in Herefordshire for 40 years, taking over from John’s father who farmed there before him. Whilst keeping 22 acres hops (8 tall Pilgrim plus 14 acres low trellis dwarfs, Sovereign, Boadicea, Pioneer and experimentals), and 20 acres intensive cider orchard on contract to Gaymers and Bulmers, they have recently passed on the remainder of the farm to their son Mark who now farms Townend with his wife Lesley.
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Treatment of whisky distillery wastewater using advanced WehrleMBR technology
By: Tony Robinson
01/12/2009
A new wastewater treatment facility at the Chivas Brothers Glenallachie Distillery near Aberlour on Speyside was commissioned in autumn 2008. The system by Wehrle Environmental comprises an advanced membrane bioreactor (MBR) treatment system capable of treating all liquid waste from the site prior to discharge of high quality water to the local burn.
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Convening in the desert - MBAA Convention at Palm Springs
By: Roger Putman
01/12/2009
There did seem to be a degree of irony in being 8700km from home at a resort manufactured out of a barren desert sitting in an air conditioned room, so cold that I had to go and change my shorts, listening to lectures on sustainability!
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US malt ’n hops - The ups and downs and downs
By: Dave Thomas
01/12/2009
It has been said many times: ‘Barley is to beer as grapes are to wine.’ And only slightly less frequently, ‘Hops are to beer as grapes are to wine.’ And yet, as Charles Bamforth points out “Beers might fairly be marketed on the basis of hop varietal (or barley origination) just as much as is a wine on a grape varietal. Invariably, they aren’t.” Perhaps things are starting to change…
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Hops return to Canada
By: Sandy Marion
01/12/2009
If you were to stop and spend a few moments talking to any old-timer who had grown up in British Columbia’s Fraser Valley and ask him what stands out in his recollections of his childhood, he would mention hop fields.
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On the trail of Josef Groll
By: Sabine Weyermann
01/12/2009
One of the greatest luminaries in the history of beer is also, perhaps, one of the least well known. His name is Josef Groll, a Bavarian brewmaster, born in the village of Vilshofen in 1813.