One small stop for farmers, one giant hop for beerkind.

With the promise of a few more weeks of warm weather and sunshine this year, a good deal of farmers across the County have taken the rather unusual step of delaying some of their hop harvesting, normally underway during the first week of September, for a couple of weeks, to take advantage of the chance to increase their yield somewhat.
An irritating move for those brewers who were 'hop'ing to get cracking on with brewing their green hop ales, but from a front line soldier's point of view, with only a dim appreciation of the consternation caused back in the ammunition factory, the results were looking quite spectacular yesterday (13/9/14).
In fact, I don't remember the last time I saw hops looking as beautiful and bountiful as this.
Ta very much to the New Inn, Canterbury for running short of beer and affording me the chance to drop into Pedding Farm on the way back to the brewery.

 Though this doesn't mean that I'm any less keen than anyone else to get stuck into the first of this year's freshly hopped brews!