tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445569787371915337.post3325810836075893520..comments2024-03-28T13:20:29.156-07:00Comments on Shut up about Barclay Perkins: A Kentish Hopyard (part one)Ron Pattinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03095189986589865751noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445569787371915337.post-13593495679050339052011-02-17T08:25:34.612-08:002011-02-17T08:25:34.612-08:00And here I thought Playboy was the gentleman's...And here I thought Playboy was the gentleman's magazine.<br /><br />Interesting to hear your thoughts on the 19th century racists. I've been boning up on Mesoamerican drinking habits. Writers in the 1800s like to blame corn beer for the downfall of the Aztecs and Western alcohol for the decline of Native Americans more generally. Although I think the word they prefer is "savages."Joe Stangehttp://www.thirstypilgrim.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445569787371915337.post-25544181373559496572011-02-17T07:51:04.221-08:002011-02-17T07:51:04.221-08:00Cooperstown Brewing Company uses a photo of turn-o...Cooperstown Brewing Company uses a photo of turn-of-the-century, Milford, NY hop pickers, on it's "Backyard" IPA label. The image looks like it could have come from the same source as the pics in this post!<br /><br />It's funny to think that while pickers were working in Kent, 3,500 miles away in Central NY, pickers were doing the same job and wearing the same clothes!<br /><br />http://www.beerbeacon.com/labelimages/200704/Cooperstwn-Bkyrd.jpg <br /><br />Sorry for the lousy pic!Craighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14129472719929268755noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445569787371915337.post-17883315293435454512011-02-17T06:22:22.625-08:002011-02-17T06:22:22.625-08:00Someone was telling me over the weekend that the m...Someone was telling me over the weekend that the main reason Kent was hop country was the availability of large numbers of labourers from the city during the season. But then, as you say, the Irish and Gypsies were likely as much a part of the capital's labour market as the Cockneys.<br /><br />Mine's a pot of sixpenny, btw.The Beer Nuthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14105708522526153528noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445569787371915337.post-1969906569609209982011-02-17T06:19:25.484-08:002011-02-17T06:19:25.484-08:00The 2001 film "Last Orders" starring Mic...The 2001 film "Last Orders" starring Michael Caine is partly set in hop fields and hop pickers' cottages. I think it may have been filmed at the hop museum at Maidstone. I worked a couple of years at the Maidstone Beer Festival on that site.<br /><br />I've grown a half dozen hop bines for 20 years and I am glad I'm not a hop picker. The bines are very irritating, and I end up with itchy welts on my arms. They also are reported to have enough estrogen-like compounds to have caused physiological changes in pickers of old, where they handled the hops much more than today.Jeff Rennernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445569787371915337.post-33419599463539968682011-02-17T05:48:04.562-08:002011-02-17T05:48:04.562-08:00My dad was a hop picker as a kid, going down from ...My dad was a hop picker as a kid, going down from London for his family's annual holiday in Kent.Alistair Reecehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15929927359428659775noreply@blogger.com