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Whether you’re a seasoned brewmaster or just beginning your brewing journey, we have everything you need to craft the perfect pint. From high-quality hops and grains to the best quality yeast and flavourings and sugars, our carefully curated selection of brewing supplies is designed to support every step of your process.
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HOPS
Hop Extracts and Oils
MALT
YEAST & bacteria
BREWING AIDS
Fruit, flavouring and Sugar
Packaging and Laboratory
OUR RANGE OF BREWING SUPPLIES
HOPS
Charles Faram has one of the largest range of hop varieties available from stock in both nitrogen flushed leaf hops, Type 90 pellets and our T45 pellets. Varieties come from the UK, Germany, USA, Slovenia, Czech Republic, New Zealand, Australia, Poland, Belgium, and France. Continuously innovative, we have our own dedicated hop breeding programme producing new and exclusive varieties every year. Keep a special eye out for Archer®, Emperor™, Godiva™, Harlequin®, Jester®, Mystic™, Olicana®, and Opus™. as well as any CF number non-commercial, experimental hops.
As a trusted distributor for Crisp Malt, we offer a range of premium British malts known for their consistency, flavour, and performance in traditional and modern brewing styles. We are the official UK distributor for Weyermann® speciality malts, renowned for their precision-crafted German malts that bring complexity and character to beers worldwide.
We serve as the official UK distributor of Fermentis active dry yeast, providing brewers with a diverse selection of strains renowned for their consistency, performance, and ease of use.
In addition to Fermentis products, we also stock Lallemand’s range of brewing yeasts. For brewers interested in sour beer production, Lallemand offers the WildBrew™ series, including strains like Philly Sour™, and Helveticus Pitch™.
Here at Charles Faram we offer a range of different Brewing Liquids from the hoppy and the dank notes of Abstrax to the strong hop aromas of Yakima Chief Hops® HyperBoost™.
Abstrax Quantum Brite offers varietal-specific hop extracts with 100% utilisation and no yield loss, ideal for enhancing hop-forward beers.
FRUIT & FLAVOURING
Charles Faram is the exclusive UK distributor of Abstrax, a California-based innovator in hop, fruit, and cannabis-inspired flavourings. The Abstrax range includes three advanced product lines designed for modern brewers: Quantum Brite, BrewGas, and Skyfarm.
By offering both cutting-edge flavour solutions and traditional fruit purees, Charles Faram enables brewers to explore a wide spectrum of flavours, from innovative terpene-based profiles to classic fruit additions,
BREWING AIDS
We supply a comprehensive range of brewing aids from Murphy & Son, one of the UK’s leading manufacturers of brewing treatments and processing aids. These products are essential for brewers looking to refine and stabilise their beer, offering solutions for water treatment, finings, pH adjustment, foam stability, clarity and haze control.
This partnership reflects Charles Faram’s commitment to offering complete brewing solutions even outside of ingredients, extending to cleaning, hygiene and lab products.
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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