In Episode 4 of the journey of Golden Promise®™ from seed to bottle, farmer Annabel Hamilton returns to the GP field on the Simpson family farm just outside Eyemouth in the Scottish Borders.
Annabel offers an overview on how the Golden Promise®™ crop is looking around four to five weeks out from harvest, with the GP having enjoyed a recent spell of hot weather.
Annabel also chats about the quality standards that need to be reached on farm - set by industry body Scottish Quality Crops - in order to be able to sell their crops to companies such as ourselves.
Finally, this video was filmed during Farm Safety Week and Annabel also discusses what this means for staff at Bee Edge Farm.
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ABOUT GOLDEN PROMISE
Golden Promise®™ was first released as a barley variety in the UK in the 1960s and quickly became revered for its distinct brewing and distilling qualities.
More than half a century later, Golden Promise®™ is still a name that is synonymous with brewing. As a base malt, it is coveted by some of the world’s leading brewers, helping them to produce the finest beers - from traditional British cask ales to hop forward, hazy New England IPAs.
It was our belief in the taste and flavour of Golden Promise®™ that resulted in Simpsons Malt becoming sole maintainers of the variety in 2015 through the company’s agricultural merchanting division McCreath Simpson & Prentice. Since then, its popularity has continued to grow across the world - particularly in the burgeoning craft brewing sector.
Golden Promise®™ is predominantly grown in the coastal areas of the Scottish Borders, East Lothian, Fife, Angus and Northumberland - the latter of which is the most northerly county in England and home to our headquarters in Berwick-upon-Tweed.
The crop can be sown anytime from the end of February until the end of April and is usually harvested in the first two weeks of August.
Golden Promise®™ malt is chosen by brewers for its taste, quality, diversity and processability. It provides excellent body for traditional session beers and cask ales, while bringing exceptional balance to beer styles with the gutsiest of hops, such as a New England IPA.
With its light malty flavour and beautiful mouthfeel, in addition to its versatility across many styles, Golden Promise®™ gives the biggest base of any malt without adding colour, resulting in exceptional beers.
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EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT SIMPSONS MALT
Simpsons Malt is renowned for producing the world’s most flavoursome malt, which is sought by the world’s best brewers and distillers to the craft the very finest beers and whiskies.
Established in 1862 and run today by the fifth generation of the Simpson family, Simpsons Malt is the largest independent maltster in the UK with a capacity of more than 300,000 tonnes across its two maltings in Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland, and Tivetshall St Margaret, Norfolk.
The Berwick-upon-Tweed maltings is home to Simpsons Malt’s head office, central laboratory and agricultural trading division, McCreath, Simpson & Prentice (MSP). At MSP, more than 300,000 tonnes of the UK’s finest two-row barley is procured each year from farming partners across England and Scotland. Each farmer’s crop is fully traceable, guaranteeing the provenance of each malt from grain to glass.
Tivetshall, meanwhile, is home to six roasting drums and oversees the production of our speciality-roasted malts. You can find out more about them here - www.simpsonsmalt.co.uk/our-ma...
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