Organic grains and hops

[brewbrew]

I'm keen to brew some beers with either all or large content of organic ingredients (I have been looking at pesticide issues in cereals - keen to drink pure beer without agrichemicals or ingredients that have been intensely produced with fertilizer run off into rivers etc).

I can buy quite a few (expensive) ready brewed commercial beers, but I'm struggling to find organic ingredients for my home brew activities.

Any ideas?

Thanks

BB

[Fil]

contact the food and soil association who authorise the use of the organic label,
https://www.soilassociation.org/
imho its a meaningless paid for marketing label simply sold for profit and gain without any real meaning.

[BrannigansLove]

Warminster produce organic malt.

[Dennis King]

Golden promise malt is reputed to be organic.

[gobuchul]

http://www.the-home-brew-shop.co.uk/aca ... _25kg.html

I know you can get Organic hops but they are very expensive. Not sure who sells them?

[Mashman]

critch is your man.

[oliver tate]

I've just got some organic citra hops from the malt Miller.

[Rookie]

Organic ingredients can be hard to find as most HBSs stock only a little if any. And AFAIK there is only one HBS in the States that sells only organic.

[Dmondaye]

I've been researching organic grains but there are few suppliers seemingly willing to sell less than 25kg at a time.

BrewUK recently quoted me for organic Maris Otter which was tempting but I seriously lack the space to store it... Anyone interested in splitting a sack with me? Am based in West London.

Maybe if there is sufficient interest we could approach a supplier and get them to package in smaller quantities?

Crisp/Warminster do a range of organic caramalts too.

Who knows anything about organic hops?

[TheSumOfAllBeers]

Buy the 25kg sack and rebag it into smaller 2kg or 5 kg bags. They store easier and are easy to sell on. Check if BrewUK will bag up into 5 kg bags like the malt Miller does

[borischarlton]

Hi,

We have a sack of organic pale here and are perfectly happy to bag up in 5kg poly bags. Just order the Maris Otter and add a note requesting organic. We do only have the one sack although we can easily get more if needs be.