RICH IN PASSION AND EXPERIENCE
Richard Phillips and his family have been farming Hops in Herefordshire for five generations. Richard is well known within the brewing world for growing award winning hops which are supplied to breweries all over the UK and over the last decade the USA as well. It was on Richards first Hop related trip to America 10 years ago for the Craft Brewers Convention where his passion for the vibrant craft beer scene America had to offer really took off.
Ever since he has been striving to set up his own craft brewery using the same award winning hops off his farm that have been brewing your favourite beers for decades! It has been a long journey and every measure has been taken to ensure we produce the very finniest quality beer’s. We extract spring water from our own borehole to insure a high quality and consistent base liquor for all our brews as well as selecting the very finest malts, yeast strains and of course Hops!
These world class ingredients are then combined in a process of alchemy by Trevor Newman using his 50 years of brewing experience and Julie Newman’s rigorous attention to detail. We hope you enjoy!
OUR HANDCRAFTED BEERS
THE MONKEY SHED BREWERY HAS BEEN SET UP BY THE FIFTH GENERATION OF HEREFORDSHIRE HOP FARMERS – THE PHILLIPS FAMILY
We have now a “CLICK AND COLLECT” service available. Meet Richard, view the hop yards and collect your order on Saturdays from 10am till 2pm at our hop farm in Stoke Edith.
BINE LOADER
ABV 4%
INDIAN PALE ALE
Our second truly local pale ale is brimming with Jester Hop adding its unique high aroma characteristics, including robust notes of tropical fruits and the Bramling Cross Hop giving distinctive spicy, blackcurrant notes. All balanced with fine malts.
GATECRASHER
ABV 4.8%
KÖLSCH STYLE LAGER
This cool fermented and matured lager style beer is inspired by Kölsch brews from Cologne in Germany. Our version of this wonderful Lager is brewed using German Pilsner malts and our own farm grown Pilgrim and Jester hops.
LOCKDOWN
ABV 4%
INDIAN PALE ALE
THE MONKEY SHED’s very first beer is made with carefully selected hops nurtured on our farms in Herefordshire and with spring water from our estate. And yes, it was passionately brewed during the first Lockdown at our own brewery in.
WHY “THE MONKEY SHED”?
We have named our brewery after the very important “monkey” that we use to string the hop yards for our hop bines to grow upon. A “monkey” also known as a “monkey pole” is a long bamboo pole with a metal pipe on the end that the string is threaded through like an oversized upside down sewing needle. Training the string up and down between the “hop pegs” in the ground and the “top hooks” attached to the overhead wire trellis. It is so important to us you can even see an illustration of it on the back of our bottles. It takes 6 people around one month to string our hop yards and over 760 km of coyer string.