Friday 5 October

Late Green Swan Tasting Day at Swan Brewery

Swan Brewery, Unit 17, Rural Enterprise Centre, Brunel Road, Leominster, HR6 0LX
www.swanbrewery.co.uk

Friday 5 to Sunday 7 October

The Talbot Green Hop Beer Festival

The Talbot, Knightwick, Worcester WR6 5PH
www.the-talbot.co.uk

Thursday 11 October

Ledbury Real Ales at The Wyche Inn, Malvern

With brewer Ant Stevens
74 Wyche Rd, Malvern WR14 4EQ
www.thewycheinn.co.uk

Friday 12 October

Green Swan Bottle Launch at Swan Brewery

Swan Brewery, Unit 17, Rural Enterprise Centre, Brunel Road, Leominster, HR6 0LX
www.swanbrewery.co.uk

Friday 12 October

Green Swan Bottle Launch at Swan Brewery

Swan Brewery, Unit 17, Rural Enterprise Centre, Brunel Road, Leominster, HR6 0LX
www.swanbrewery.co.uk

Friday 12 October

Ledbury Real Ales at The Oak Inn, Staplow

With brewer Ant Stevens and hop grower Sarah Hawkins

Saturday 13 October

Ledbury Real Ales Open Day

Ledbury Real Ales, Gazerdine House, Hereford Road, Ledbury
www.ledburyrealales.co.uk

Thursday 18 October

Ledbury Real Ales at The Beauchamp Arms, Dymock

With brewer Ant Stevens and hop grower Martin Powell-Tuck
The Beauchamp Arms, Dymock, Gloucestershire GL18 2AQ
www.beauchamparmsdymock.co.uk

Friday 27 October

Green Hop Festival at The Nest, Ledbury

With brewer Ant Stevens

www.thenestledbury.co.uk

Friday 21 September

Early Green Swan Tasting Day at Swan Brewery

Swan Brewery, Unit 17, Rural Enterprise Centre, Brunel Road, Leominster, HR6 0LX
www.swanbrewery.co.uk

Friday 29 and Saturday 30 September

Malvern Autumn Show

We will be in The Orchard Pavilion offering local Green Hop beers, hops to sniff and rub, the Catcher Media film Tales from the Hopyards, home brew hops and hop bines to buy for your home. Seek us out to learn all about local hops and the beers made with them.

Three Counties Showground, Malvern, Worcestershire, WR13 6NW

https://www.malvernautumn.co.uk/whats-on/harvest/

www.malvernautumn.co.uk

In 2015, brewing members of Hopshires will be able to enter a bottled beer for competition to determine the Hopshires Champion Bottled Beer. Qualifying beers will only use hops grown in the Hopshires region. The beers will be judged by a panel of hop growers, bottled beer shop owners and members of the public recruited by the Three Counties Showground with the champion beer being announced in the week of the Malvern Autumn Show, 26th & 27th September, at the Three Counties Showground.
Hopshires bottled beers will be on sale at the Hopshires stand in the Orchard and Hopyard Pavilion on the show weekend

We are supported by sponsorship from local businesses – Charles Faram & Co Ltd and Beerbods

Charles Faram is celebrating 150 years as merchants of hops and hop products. Based in Newland, Malvern, we sell the largest range of hops in the UK along with other brewing ingredients.With over 100 different varieties of hops to choose from, it provides an artist’s palette of flavours to create every type and style of beer. Faram’s also have a hop breeding programme where they are developing new varieties, to create an array of different flavor profiles and disease resistance. The new hops that have been bred by Charles Faram bring flavours to your beers such as apricot, peach, grassy, earthy, floral, spice, grapefruit, lychees, blackcurrant, orange, herbs, mango and passionfruit    http://www.charlesfaram.co.uk/

Beerbods is a local company using the power of the internet to help us all drink better beer.
https://beerbods.co.uk/about

Hopshires gets the green light

An initiative set up by the counties’ hop growers and brewers to promote the region’s hop-growing prowess and the vital role it plays in the future of British brewing has received backing to continue for a second year.

The ‘Hopshires’ project is a collaboration between the hop growers and brewers of Herefordshire, Worcestershire and Shropshire to celebrate our hops and the beers made with them. Due to its overwhelming support last year the project will continue this September and October just as the year’s hop crop is harvested. Participating brewers will produce at least one beer each using only local hops for these two months. These beers can be identified in the pubs by special Hopshires pump clip crowns and supporting leaflets.

It has been reported this year that British hop plantings have fallen below a 1,000 hectares for the first time which has led the industry to urge British brewers to use native hops. The Hopshires initiative is driving the message about British hops, especially as the hopyards of Herefordshire, Worcestershire and Shropshire produce more than half of the hops grown in the UK, but most beer drinkers are unaware that these farms even exist.

The Hopshires project is now made up of 22 brewers with seven new brewers joining the original 15 who signed up last year, they include Wood Brewery, Ludlow Brewery, Corvedale Brewery, Hop & Stagger Brewery, Jones the Brewer, Simpson Fine Ales and Birds Brewery.

“It’s fantastic to have the support of the local brewers to continue the Hopshires project, which means more beers will be in our pubs during the months of September and October brewed using only local hops. We will also be spreading the word at Bromyard Hop Festival on 30th August and Malvern Autumn Show 27th – 28th September” commented Chris Gooch from the project.

For more information, please contact Chris Gooch fromthehopshires@hotmail.co.uk 07792394151

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