Wild Hop Brewery
Have any of you beery cats heard of the Wild Hop Brewery? It's in County Durham apparently - which, in old money, was my own shire of birth - but I can't find anything online about it. I've ordered a cask of their "O.P.A." because I like the look of the pump clip and want to stock beers from North Eastern micros (there's quite a scene up there nowadays, don't you know).
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Wild Hop brewery opened and closed in 2007. This could be Daleside who are in North Yorkshire.
This from the Darlington Camra website :
Sheep Goes Wild and Sows Hops
DARLINGTON RESIDENT Patrick Green has achieved a long-held ambition after years in the industry - and set up his very own brewing company.
The Wild Hop Brewery commenced operations in March after months of plotting and planning. Beer is produced on integrated, modern equipment which until recently formed part of Cameron's Lion brewery of Hartlepool. Cameron's installed the kit in June 2003 at a cost of £500,000 to allow them to experiment with new lines. They christened it the 'Lions Den' mini-brewery. 'Mini' of course is relative: the Lion brewery proper has a capacity of 500,000 barrels; the Wild Hops capacity is 10 barrels (360 gallons) at a time. But that's plenty for Pat for the time being. It comes complete with a malt mill, mash tun, copper, hot liquor tank, wort heat exchanger and control panel, hop strainer and dual purpose fermentation and conditioning tanks.
The first beer produced by Pat's brewer is Wild Hop OPA, or 'organic pale ale'. At a quaffable 3.8% abv it is described as 'dry and fruity with a hint of spice, and bitterness in the finish'. It was due to be launched at Darlington's Spring Thing festival as we went to press. Pat will primarily focus on marketing his beers - and there is none better qualified to do that. For until he went independent he was sales director at Black Sheep in Masham, helping Paul Theakston to set up that brewery in 1992 and getting its beers onto the bars of over 700 pubs since.
Pat Green can be contacted on (07764) 696070 if you're interested in helping him sow a few Wild Hops.
Again, that's from 2007
God wanted us to be happy and that's why he made beer. I won't be able to live on any other planet because only earth has beer.
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As Hogwash suggests, they might be brewed at Daleside, N. Yorks.
"History
This brewery, which started brewing in March 2007, using the test plant based at Cameron's Brewery. However the sale of the brewplant fell through and brewing was suspended. Following investment in Daleside Brewery, plans for the brewery were put to one side although it is reported that it may be used as a series of Daleside beers."
from http://www.quaffale.org.uk/php/brewery/1230
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"Pat Hops it to a Yorkshire Daleside
FORMER BLACK Sheep director Patrick Green has focused his attentions once again on a Yorkshire brewery, after reluctantly pulling the plug on his embryonic Wild Hop operation in Hartlepool.
Pat has acquired a one-third share in the Harrogate-based Daleside Brewery, alongside the existing owners Eric Lucas (managing director) and Alan Barker (chairman).
He has taken on the duties of commercial director, with a brief to build awareness of Daleside and its beers.
“The main thrust will be to get the exposure and distribution that the Daleside brands deserve,” Pat told us. “They’ve got a cabinet full of awards, but have been far too reticent to turn that into sales success”.
He will also work with Eric Lucas to ‘grow and restructure the company’.
A resident of Darlington - “I tell people it’s like Harrogate but with attitude” - Pat has made a good start in building awareness in his own local, with a number of Daleside brews appearing in Number Twenty-2 in recent weeks! He’s also regularly supplying Daleside Bitter, re-badged as ‘Tap & Spile Bitter’, to his namesake Patrick Freeman, across the town centre at the Bondgate alehouse.
Pat had invested a lot of time and effort, not to mention money, in developing the 10-barrel Wild Hop Organic Brewery, and even supplied a trial brew to the Darlington Spring Thing festival. But he felt obliged to pull out before the final exchange of contracts with the brewing kit’s present owners, Camerons.
He retains ownership of the Wild Hop organic brands and recipes and says he’s considering bringing the beers back at Daleside at some stage in the future, most likely bottled for the supermarket trade."
from http://www.darlocamra.org.uk/DarlingtonDrinker166.html (Autumn 2007)
Beers under the name have appeared at Fat Cat pub, Sheffield.
Sounds like O.P.A. will bring out the tickers!
If you're lookign for NE micro - try Allendale brewery's fare. Beautiful stuff, and top people.
Sorry, but you haven't worked out the RSS feed quite yet.
We don't need the info about you having been a I was a private equity lawyer with every post.
I just don't know what this RSS thing is, so it's difficult for me to understand what it is I'm setting up. Do you people have some kind of blog screen on your computers where all the posts on the blogs you read appear in order? If so that's rather disappointing, I'd prefer it if people visited my site.
I was in Anderson Valley last April and got a taste of the wines (some truly nice stuff) and the lingo.Seeing the lingo on the back label certainly would be an improvement over most of what passes for back label wine writing…
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