New Hops & Malts

[EasyBrew]

Hi All

Brupaks have just announced some new products:

Maris Otter Extra Pale Malt - only 2.5 EBC! The lightest ale malt available anywhere. It will be available in 500g - £1.30, 3kg - £5.99, 5kg - £9.40 and 25kg - £33.50. This will be in stock in a couple of weeks.

Amarillo Hops - The Amarillo hop is perhaps one of the more uniquely flavoured varieties to emerge in recent years. Aroma is distinctively citrus with a unique 'fruit salad' flavour. Used for its aromatic properties, and also for its exceptional bittering properties (far smoother than Cascade) Alpha acids: 8-11%. It will be available in - 100g vacuum packed - £3.95, 1kg vacuum packed - £27.00. This will be in stock in a couple of weeks.

I am sure you are also aware that the Aurora hop became available last year. Alpha Acid - 8.6% Origin - Slovenia. Aurora (Super Styrians) hops are from Slovenia. This dual-purpose variety is great for bittering and aroma and can be used in all ales (and judiciously in some lagers).
We have found this is selling well. Price for this hop is 100g vacuum packed bag - £3.25, 1kg bag - £22.95. Already in stock.

[SteveD]

It's exactly what you need for authentic IPA (as near as you can get).

:getcoatsmiley: :runsawaysmiley:

[NzDan1]

Hi All

Brupaks have just announced some new products:

Maris Otter Extra Pale Malt - only 2.5 EBC! The lightest ale malt available anywhere. It will be available in 500g - £1.30, 3kg - £5.99, 5kg - £9.40 and 25kg - £33.50. This will be in stock in a couple of weeks.

Amarillo Hops - The Amarillo hop is perhaps one of the more uniquely flavoured varieties to emerge in recent years. Aroma is distinctively citrus with a unique 'fruit salad' flavour. Used for its aromatic properties, and also for its exceptional bittering properties (far smoother than Cascade) Alpha acids: 8-11%. It will be available in - 100g vacuum packed - £3.95, 1kg vacuum packed - £27.00. This will be in stock in a couple of weeks.

I am sure you are also aware that the Aurora hop became available last year. Alpha Acid - 8.6% Origin - Slovenia. Aurora (Super Styrians) hops are from Slovenia. This dual-purpose variety is great for bittering and aroma and can be used in all ales (and judiciously in some lagers).
We have found this is selling well. Price for this hop is 100g vacuum packed bag - £3.25, 1kg bag - £22.95. Already in stock.

Man! you guys pay alot for ingredients considering alot of them are from your country! I get a 25kg bag of bairds pale for $60 Nz, 21 pounds and amarillo hops for 14.50 pounds a kg

[SteveD]

Hi All

Brupaks have just announced some new products:

Maris Otter Extra Pale Malt - only 2.5 EBC! The lightest ale malt available anywhere. It will be available in 500g - £1.30, 3kg - £5.99, 5kg - £9.40 and 25kg - £33.50. This will be in stock in a couple of weeks.

Amarillo Hops - The Amarillo hop is perhaps one of the more uniquely flavoured varieties to emerge in recent years. Aroma is distinctively citrus with a unique 'fruit salad' flavour. Used for its aromatic properties, and also for its exceptional bittering properties (far smoother than Cascade) Alpha acids: 8-11%. It will be available in - 100g vacuum packed - £3.95, 1kg vacuum packed - £27.00. This will be in stock in a couple of weeks.

I am sure you are also aware that the Aurora hop became available last year. Alpha Acid - 8.6% Origin - Slovenia. Aurora (Super Styrians) hops are from Slovenia. This dual-purpose variety is great for bittering and aroma and can be used in all ales (and judiciously in some lagers).
We have found this is selling well. Price for this hop is 100g vacuum packed bag - £3.25, 1kg bag - £22.95. Already in stock.

Man! you guys pay alot for ingredients considering alot of them are from your country! I get a 25kg bag of bairds pale for $60 Nz, 21 pounds and amarillo hops for 14.50 pounds a kg

Everything's expensive here. Houses, fuel, cars, parking the cars, driving them into london, food, wine, you name it..everything....a lot of it due to taxation.

Beer is getting near £3.00 a pint around where I live, in Surrey. That's made here too. Homebrew has also got more expensive but always seems to be a steady 1/10th the price of pub beer.

[steve_flack]

Man! you guys pay alot for ingredients considering alot of them are from your country! I get a 25kg bag of bairds pale for $60 Nz, 21 pounds and amarillo hops for 14.50 pounds a kg

There's a pretty hefty mark up which is less to do with tax and more to do with all the middlemen involved. For an example of this check out the UK prices of the speciality European malts from a UK homebrew shop and from Brouwland in Belgium. Looking at the ranges it looks like they are the same stuff.

Belgian Pale Malt 25kg
UK Price £47.50
Brouwland Price €25.55 (delivery €19.96) Total €44.91 (£30 delivered)

It's telling that I could order a single sack from Belgium and get it delivered to my door for about £20 less than I could from a UK shop.

UK Pale Malt is available from local breweries at around half the price the HB shops charge - £15 ish.

[PieOPah]

Assuming that a recent development near my house is a micro brewery, I might have to see if I can use them as a source for my grain

[inthedark]

Assuming that a recent development near my house is a micro brewery, I might have to see if I can use them as a source for my grain

A new microbrewery in Reading? Where's that then?

[PieOPah]

Can't be 100% sure that it will be a microbrewery, it just appears to be...

On the way into town there is some building work going on. Think it is just after the holybrook car park

[inthedark]

I take it you're coming from the East? Are we talking about the area between the Holybrook estate and Castle Street?

[PieOPah]

I'm crap with geography

I'm coming from Northumberland Avenue so basically the route the Number 5 takes. Most of the South Reading buses pass this area on the way to the station.

Is Castle Street the one with Sahara on the corner? Before the Church? The place I think will be a Micro is before there. The front of the building is mostly glass so upstairs you can see lots of big steel containers which to me look like they will be fermenters. Downstairs (last time I passed) there was a horseshoe shaped brick structure in the middle of the floor - looks very Pub Bar like to me

[inthedark]

Found it - a new microbrewery/pizza restaurant from Zerodegrees opening 2007 in Gun Street - see http://www.readingbeerfestival.org.uk/m ... /2006/Pubs

edit: I think I know the building you mean - it's on Bridge Street, behind the Sahara bar - according to the site above, the restaurant is going to be in Gun Street, but that's just round the corner.

zerodegrees is part of a (small) chain - check them out: http://www.riskkdesign.co.uk/zerodegrees/beer.htm

[PieOPah]

fantastic. Can't wait until it opens

[Scooby]

PoP, the West Berks Brewery will sell you crushed pale malt (Maris otter) if you ask nicely and they have enough in stock, the barley is grown on a local farm near Hungerford and malted at Warminster. It was £18 for 25kg until recently but has gone up to £22.

http://www.wbbrew.co.uk/

They are at Yattendon so not to far from you. Why not have a trip out and have a pint in the Pot Kiln, Frilsham (WBB used to brew there) or better still the Bell in Aldworth, a unspoilt 14th-c pub run by the same family for 220 odd yrs. IMO one of the best pubs around.

[PieOPah]

I really should make an effort to visit. I love their Dr Hexter's Wedding Ale. Had many a pint in the 'Hobgoblin' pub in town.

Just thought, would a brewery crush the grain for yo or would I need to do that myself??

[deadlydes]

Just thought, would a brewery crush the grain for yo or would I need to do that myself??

depends. most small breweries buy it ready crushed as dont want the extra faff of crushing.
if they buy it whole it depends on their set up whether or not they can get at is once its crushed