Harvey hops in 1889

Inevitably, we’ve ended up at the hops Harvey employed. What’s slightly unusual is that they are all English. And mostly pretty local, Lewes being in Sussex and Kent in the neighbouring country to the East.

That’s slightly unusual. Most brewers used some foreign hops, simply because there were too few English hops to satisfy demand.

There’s nothing stupidly old. Most were either from the current season or the one before it. With only the Sussex hops being two seasons old

Harvey currently sources all its hops from Sussex. At least they did when I visited the brewery a couple of years ago. 

Harvey hops in 1889
Beer	Style	OG	hop 1	hop 2	hop 3
X	Mild	1058.2	East Kent 1887	East Kent 1888
XXX	Mild	1075.3	East Kent 1887	East Kent 1888
PA	Pale Ale	1066.5	Worcester 1888
SB	Stock Ale	1078.9	Kent 1888	East Kent 1887
Stout	Stout	1078.7	Sussex 1886	Kent 1887	East Kent 1888
Source:
Harvey brewing record held at the East Sussex Record Office, document number BBR 2/1/3.