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Bristol Hops Collective to return with new brewery partner
A people-powered community-grown real ale will be brewed in Bristol again in 2024.
Bristol Hops Collective will be partnering with Left Handed Giant to make the beer from hops grown in back gardens and allotments across our city.
Established in 2016, the most recent crop of fresh green hops measured a record 60kg.
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Originally collaborating with the now sadly closed Dawkins in Easton, the initiative is now nomadic with New Bristol Brewery in St Paul’s brewing the record harvest in 2023.
A Bristol Hops Collective spokesperson said that they “couldn’t be happier to partner with Left Handed Giant to create this year’s edition of our uniquely Bristolian, green-hopped real ale”.
“As a local brewery owned and operated by the people who work for them and those who drink their beer, they make the perfect partner for us as a community-based growing and drinking project.
“We can’t wait to sample the beer they make with our hops.”
Bristol Hops Collective was set up by a group of friends in 2016 and the collective has been going from strength to strength ever since – photo: Bristol Hops Collective
In a statement, Left Handed Giant added: “We’re very excited to be partnering with Bristol Hop Collective to produce a beer utilising exclusively locally-grown hops.
“We look forward to working together with such dedicated and passionate members of our community to create a great, Bristolian beer.”
The partnership with Left Handed Giant comes soon after the brewery has officially become a B-Corp after being certified as operating to the highest standards of environmental and social responsibility.
Work has also begun on Left Handed Giant’s newest bar at the Carriageworks on Stokes Croft which will be known as Dreamhouse and promises to be a standalone bar as well as a venue which will “provide a space to enhance and broaden the local experience”.
Dreamhouse from Left Handed Giant and Pizza Is Lovely “will provide an offering that presents a real point of difference and gravity within the area” – photo: Martin Booth
Main photo: Bristol Hops Collective
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