SCOTNEY CASTLE HOP PICKING WITH PETE BROWN
On the second day of the 2015 hop picking season, Friday 28th August, celebrated beer and travel writer Pete Brown and Robert Wicks visited the Scotney Castle Hop Garden to pull, pick and dry hops. Here is a photo galley of our visit.
Scotney Castle oast house Traditional oasts or hop kilns The Scotney hop garden
The hop pulling trailer Picking hops in the garden Pete handles an armfull of hops
Goldings hops in Pulled hops on the way to Hooking on Hops
the hop garden the picking machine
Leaves and waste discharge A poke of Scotney WGV hops
from the picking machine green hops
A row of WGV A kiln full of dried hops A pressed bale of Goldings ready for
hops cooling down sewing up
Traditional tar Cones from our new Inside our new experimental hop burner experimental hop