The Charles Faram team are left overwhelmed at winning two awards at the SIBA Business Awards
Charles Faram wins Best Supplier Associate of the year and Best COVID Supplier Initiative The Charles Faram team were excited to win two awards at the Society of Independent Brewers Business Awards ceremony streamed live on YouTube last night. As knowing finalists, the team sat in the Zoom green room with other finalists in our […]
SIBA Business Awards 2021 Winners revealed: Signature Brew named Brewery Business of the Year for the second time
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Video and Podcast Series Episode 2 – Darren Gamache of Amarillo® fame
YouTube video In our second episode Paul Corbett chats to Darren Gamache of Amarillo® fame. Including the discovery of Amarillo®, a lab in his great grandmother’s basement and state preference for our UK customers Virgil Gamache Farms Podcasts Also available on: Google Podcasts Amazon Music TuneIn+Alexa Pandora® iheart Radio Listen notes And more…. Click here for […]
Video and Podcast Series Episode 1 – Paul Corbett, hop stories and introduction
Episode 1 – Paul Corbett, hop stories and introduction YouTube video Starting off our 2021 series of Podcasts and videos on all sorts of topics from the team members, to recipes, hop talk, chats with the growers, chats with brewers and technical advice. This first episode provides an interesting insight into how Faram’s has changed […]
Jon talks about Most
Check the short video from our Jon . He talks about Most (Moss-t) while starting off his weekend of homebrewing #MostHops #HomeBrewing #HopTalk
Five Minutes with Faram – Rob Lovatt, Thornbridge
What’s your favourite hop? Although I appreciate modern US varieties, my preference is certainly more traditional, so East Kent Goldings or Hallertauer Tradition. What’s your favourite beer? I’d have to go with three! Schonramer Hell, Sierra Nevada Pale ale, or Landlord on cask. Favourite Food & Beer pairing? Cheese every time! Tallegio or Gruyere probably. Favourite beer destination? Bavaria. What’s your […]
Five Minutes with Faram – James Clarke, Hook Norton
What’s your favourite hop? My favourite hop is probably Challenger. Always been a user of Challenger in our core beers. Having done some single hop brews, and included Challenger in some of our newer beers, it really has an understated and underrated quality. What’s your favourite beer? My favourite beer is usually answered with “the one in my […]
Low Trellis Hop Growing
LOW TRELLIS HOP GROWING Written for you by Jon Stringer LOW TRELLIS HOP GROWING Firstly, tell me about dwarf hop plants… Whether a hop plant grows to be a tall plant, semi-tall or dwarf is controlled ultimately by dwarf genes in its DNA. The influence of these genes causes the plant to develop shorter internodes […]
Goodbye to Minstrel®
Written by Will Rogers, Group Technical Director Hop development takes many years, hard graft, and a brilliant understanding of how to encourage the very best from these amazing plants. Even with all of these factors, things do not always go to plan. The story of Minstrel® To tell the story of Minstrel® we need to […]
Which hop are you?
WHICH HOP ARE YOU? Which hop are you? Can you guess which Faram team memeber is which? Earlier this year I sent a light-hearted request to the Charles Faram team, “please tell me which hop or hops you think you are and why”. I had been tasked with writing an article and I think now […]