Robbie and the new type of concentrated hop product
Robbie and the new type of concentrated hop product It’s been a really exciting brewday today on the pilot plant. We’ve been working away behind the scenes on a new type of concentrated hop product and we now have some material to play with, produced from our beloved Jester® I’m brewing a simple, clean light […]
Extension of 3 Year Best Before Date
We at Charles Faram wish to provide hops of the highest possible quality. Therefore, we give a Best Before Date of 5 years from the point of harvest. Any hop crops before 2017 have a Best Before Date of 3 years but after conducting Stringent quality testing we are confident they will be suitable for […]
Date limite d’utilisation optimale
Notre objectif à Charles Faram est de fournir du houblon de la plus haute qualité. Par conséquent, nous donnons une date de limite d’utilisation optimale (DLUO) de 5 ans à partir du moment de la récolte. Tous les houblons récoltés avant 2017 ont une DLUO de 3 ans. Cependant, après avoir effectué une série de […]
Five minutes with Faram – Jon Stringer, Ramsgate Brewery
Jon Stringer,The Ramsgate Brewery What’s your favourite hop? East Kent Golding. It’s massively classy and lends fabulous flavour to beer. What’s your favourite beer? There are many but Five Points Railway Porter, Northern Monk Glory, Mahrs Brau Helles, Marble Peaches & Beaches, Yeastie Boys Gunnamatta, Gadds’ No5, Burning Sky Plateau to name but a few… […]
Five minutes with Faram’s – Matheau Hicks and Oliver Parsons of Arundel Brewery
Matheau Hicks and Oliver Parsons of Arundel Brewery What’s your favourite hop? Oliver: my favourite hop is Mosaic® What’s your favourite beer? Oliver: my favourite beer is not available in the UK and is Swish by Bissell Brother, it’s phenomenal Mat: Westmalle dubbel Favourite Food & Beer pairing? Oliver: You can’t beat a good spicy […]
Helping you to get creative
You may have seen our Twitter and Facebook ideas for which yeast to use to create a specific beer style. Experimenting can be fun, but also a bit of a worrying expense, so the point of our “which?” features and “Robbie and the …” features are helpful guides and trials. We don’t mind boasting that […]
Which yeast for a lager?
Which yeast for a German style Ale?
Which yeast for a Belgian Saison?
Brexit: Special Order Products
With the approach of Brexit we would like to inform you of some of our plans regarding importing products from Europe. We are expecting there to be some disruption to supply for malts from Weyermann® and Castle and yeast from Fermentis. We have been building up stock here for a number of months in order […]