the potential for growing hops in towns and cities to supply local breweries.

When the hop fields come to town

the potential for growing hops in towns and cities to supply local breweries.

Sometimes the simplest ideas carry with them, when thought through, such a powerful taste of how the future could be that they are quite irresistible. One such idea has led me to spend the last couple of days immersed in trying to find out as much as I could about it, and it has been time well spent, which I want to share with you here. The idea came in a post on the City Farmers website , entitled ‘Brixton Beer’. The idea is a simple one: rather than breweries in London buying their hops from wherever they can source them (sometimes as far afield as New Zealand), people across London grow hops in their back gardens, on their patios and balconies, allotments and community gardens, which are then used by local brewers. As they put it, “we want to grow hops across a network of individual and community gardens, get local breweries to make beer out of them and drink the result...

Full article: http://transitionculture.org/2012/02/20/when-the-hop-fiel...

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@city_farmers » 13 Mar '12, 12pm
In case you missed it, here's the amazing article by Rob Hopkins about the Brixton Beer project & urban hops in general [link]
@AdamHCallaghan » 22 Feb '12, 10pm
RT @MOFGA: All about hops: [link]
@MOFGA » 22 Feb '12, 3pm
All about hops: [link]
@OxfamCymruActs » 21 Feb '12, 2pm
Fantastic resource. Makes me want to grow hops. Wonder if any brewers in Wales would be interested...@city_farmers [link]”
@city_farmers » 21 Feb '12, 2pm
An absolute delight to be interviewed by Rob Hopkins abut our hops project. A really good read! [link]
@gyxk56 » 21 Feb '12, 11am
When the hops come home. [link]
@BeerIsMyChurch » 20 Feb '12, 2pm
Awesome community-based brewing idea! When the hop fields come to town [link] #beer #craftbeer
@transitiontowns » 20 Feb '12, 12pm
RT @robintransition: New post on the potential for growing hops in towns and cities to supply local breweries. [link] (Char)
@ttmatlock » 20 Feb '12, 9am
@thornbridge @BuxtonBrewery - where are your hops grown? could we grow more locally? [link]
@robintransition » 20 Feb '12, 8am
RT @ttmatlock: Could we grow Derbyshire hops? [link]
@ttmatlock » 20 Feb '12, 8am
Could we grow Derbyshire hops? [link]
@GreenCChampion » 20 Feb '12, 8am
Research by @robintransition: Features interviews with @StroudBrewery, Martin Crawford, @city_farmers, Dr Peter Darby [link]”
@GreenCChampion » 20 Feb '12, 8am
see how @city_farmers in #Lambeth and others view the potential for growing hops in cities to supply local breweries. [link]”
@leftlinks » 20 Feb '12, 8am
Transition Culture - When the hop fields come to town [link]
@robintransition » 20 Feb '12, 7am
Features interviews with @StroudBrewery, Martin Crawford, @city_farmers, and Dr Peter Darby (UK hop breeding expert): [link]
@robintransition » 20 Feb '12, 7am
It's a new departure for TransitionCulture, audio of the original interviews mixed in with the text. Does it work? [link]
@robintransition » 20 Feb '12, 7am
Today's Transition Culture post looks at the potential for growing hops in towns and cities to supply local breweries. [link]
@Scott_Redding » 20 Feb '12, 8am
"Growing hops in towns and cities to supply local breweries" - [link]