Hops on the radio!

[Invalid Stout]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0 ... amme_Hops/

English hops are enjoying a renaissance thanks to new varieties, greater demand for 'hoppy' ales and the incredible growth in micro breweries. Sheila Dillon enjoys some of the heady aromas and samples some new ales.

She visits Shepherd Neame, a brewery in Faversham, Kent and talks to head brewer, David Holmes, She visits farm owner Tony Redsell, whose family has been growing hops for over 50 years, and meets hop driers Derek Elvey and Peter Shead.

Sheila also talks to Dr Peter Darby about The National Hop Collection at Queen Court Farm, near Faversham.

In the studio, she is joined in the studio by Roger Protz, beer writer and editor of The Good Beer Guide, and Martin Dickie, brewer and co-owner of Brewdog Brewery, Fraserburgh.

[Mashman]

I heard this on the radio, very interesting. A shame they visited a brewery who beers are mundane at best rather than visiting somewhere like the Dark Star brewery where they really know how to use hops.