Brewing Supplies to Elevate Your Beer Quality
Whether you’re a seasoned brewmaster or just starting your brewing journey, we provide everything you need to craft the perfect beer. At Charles Faram, our carefully curated range of brewing supplies ensures you have access to the highest-quality ingredients and tools to support every stage of the brewing process. From premium hops and malted grains to the finest yeast strains, flavourings, sugars, and brewing aids, our selection is designed to deliver consistency, character, and quality to your beer. Every product in our catalogue is chosen with precision, so whether you’re producing classic ales, lagers, or cutting-edge craft beers, you can trust that your brewing supplies will perform reliably batch after batch.
Comprehensive Range of Brewing Supplies
Our extensive inventory covers everything a professional or hobby brewer could need:
Hops: Aroma, flavour, and bittering hops with certified alpha acid levels.
Grains and Malts: High-quality barley, wheat, and speciality malts for depth and complexity.
Yeast & Fermentation: Dried yeast, liquid, and speciality yeast strains for every style.
Sugars & Adjuncts: From simple fermentable sugars to unique flavour enhancers.
Brewing Aids & Equipment: Enzymes, clarifying agents, and other essentials for optimal brewing performance.
Expert Support and Guidance
More than just a supplier, we partner with brewers to provide technical expertise and advice on selecting the right brewing supplies for your recipes. Understanding ingredients, their interactions, and their impact on flavour and consistency is essential to producing exceptional beer, and our team is here to help every step of the way.
Reliable Supply Chain for Consistency and Growth
We know that consistent access to quality brewing supplies is critical to keeping your brewhouse running smoothly. Our supply chain is designed to deliver efficiency, reliability, and scale, ensuring that, whether you’re crafting a small batch or producing at commercial volume, your ingredients arrive on time and to the highest standards.
Partner with Charles Faram for Brewing Success
By choosing Charles Faram, you gain more than ingredients; you gain a partner committed to the art and science of brewing. Explore our full range of brewing supplies, discover the products that will elevate your beer, and benefit from our expertise to help bring your brewing vision to life.
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HOPS
Hop Extracts and Oils
YEAST & bacteria
flavouring
OUR RANGE OF BREWING SUPPLIES
UNDERSTAND THE PRODUCT: HOPS
Hop Terminology · Aroma
Hop Terminology – Understanding the Basics – Much is spoken of the quality and intensity of dried hop aroma. These are strong varietal characteristics. There appears to be a general relationship between the type and heaviness of a hop aroma and the flavour and aromatic properties of beer.
A major component of the soft resins. When isomerized, these materials provide the main bitter compounds associated with beer. The alpha acid content varies widely among hop varieties from levels of 3 – 4% w/w in aromatic type hops to levels of 13 – 16% in the bitter hops.
A soft resin component, beta-acids are not bitter in the natural or isomerised form. However, some oxidation products add bitterness, and beta-acids can be chemically transformed into light-stable bittering compounds.
The alpha acids exist in three analogous forms, humulone, ad-humulone and co-humulone; and the proportions of these analogues vary markedly with variety. Varieties with relatively low co-humulone levels are strongly favored.
Storagability
Where available, analytical figures on varietal sheets show the % of Alpha Acid remaining after 6 months storage at 68f. Oxidation of alpha acids removes their ability to be isomerized to the required bitter isomers. In comparable circumstances, some varieties lose a greater proportion of their alpha acids to oxidation than others do. Cold storage and anaerobic conditions can delay oxidation. Some oxidation of essential oil components is necessary to produce compounds thought to be important in beer flavors, so controlled ageing is important for hops required for both bittering and aromatic properties.
Total Oil
This hop characteristic varies widely with seasons, varieties and growths from 0.5 mls to about 3 mls per 100g of hops. While the soft resin compounds are responsible for providing the bitterness to a beer, the quantity and composition of the essential oils are responsible for the amount of hop flavor and aroma in the beer.
Myrcene, Humulene, Caryophyllene & Farnesene
The four major components of the essential oils, when referring to hop terminology. Between them they account for about 60 – 80% of the essential oils for most varieties. These compounds are highly volatile hydrocarbons, and boiling the wort drives off most, if not all, of them. As a result, they contribute little to hop flavor and aroma in beer. Therefore, it is usually necessary to add late hops for additional aroma.
Whole Hop (Raw cones of the plant Humulus Lupulus)
With our unique combination of vacuum Packed “Freshpaks” (Charles Faram Hop Terminology) in 5kg and 20kg packs and our comprehensive stock of over 100 different varieties from growers worldwide, all year round we can offer the brewer an artist’s pallet of flavors to create every type and style of beer.
Type 90 Hop Pellets (Hops milled/ground into powder then pelletised)
The most popular varieties come in Type 90 pellets, sealed in vacuum packs. Brewers add them during the boil for bittering or later on for aroma. They must be used in conjunction with a whirlpool or enhanced filtering system.
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