Hi,
Thought I would say hi, I might met some of you at Brewcon. My name is Philip I am the co-owner of the Wicklow Hop's Company. We are starting a commercial hop farm in Newcastle Co.Wicklow. We currently have 5000 planted, some are first season and some are in the 2nd. At the moment we are growing mostly German and UK varieties but we are conducting trials with over 30 different varieties from around the world to see how they grow in the Irish climate.
We have also opened a small lab that conducts analysis for the commercial craft breweries at the moment. We are testing ABV, IBU, calories, Final gravity, color and a full micro analysis. As I said we are mostly geared towards industry but if anyone ever wanted to get there favorite homebrew analysed than we can do that for you. Water testing will also be coming online next month as well.
Looking forward to meeting you all at some stage.
All the best,
Philip
Hello and welcome.
Always good to have a lab available, to say nowt about a hop farm.
Philip,
Welcome to the forum.
There is a very active Club based in Wicklow - Garden County Brewers. We meet on the 2nd Thursday of every month in The Harbour Bar, you are more than welcome to come down and have a chat with us anytime.
Thanks,
Colin
Hi Colin,
Cheers, will be down for the next meet and will be down for the beer fest in the Harbour Bar in June.
See you then.
Philip
Welcome Philip and team,
Excellent news to have a local hop farm and lab.
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Was great chatting with you guys on Saturday, hope to catch up again soon.
Quote from: Thewicklowhopscompany on May 22, 2018, 10:46:22 PM
Hi,
Thought I would say hi, I might met some of you at Brewcon. My name is Philip I am the co-owner of the Wicklow Hop's Company. We are starting a commercial hop farm in Newcastle Co.Wicklow. We currently have 5000 planted, some are first season and some are in the 2nd. At the moment we are growing mostly German and UK varieties but we are conducting trials with over 30 different varieties from around the world to see how they grow in the Irish climate.
We have also opened a small lab that conducts analysis for the commercial craft breweries at the moment. We are testing ABV, IBU, calories, Final gravity, color and a full micro analysis. As I said we are mostly geared towards industry but if anyone ever wanted to get there favorite homebrew analysed than we can do that for you. Water testing will also be coming online next month as well.
Looking forward to meeting you all at some stage.
All the best,
Philip
Nice one, you guys have a website yet to look at? Sad I did not get to talk to you at BrewCon.
Cheers,
Steph