Bertwell Hops

Canada Organic

Harvest Hop & Malt

Organic Spelt Malt grown and malted in Ontario.

Brewers and distillers can now craft their products from grains grown and malted in Ontario, traceable to the individual grain grower.

720 kg batches are processed through germination with precise computer control, ensuring reproducible results batch to batch. All grain transfers use pneumatic (air) equipment, virtually eliminating cracked kernels. Vessels are scrupulously cleaned after each batch to minimize contamination.

Custom roasting and grinding is available.

Organic Spelt Malt

Organic

Conventional (Non-GMO)

Newdale Barley Pale Malt grown and malted in Ontario.

Brewers and distillers can now craft their products from grains grown and malted in Ontario, traceable to the individual grain grower.

720 kg batches are processed through germination with precise computer control, ensuring reproducible results batch to batch. All grain transfers use pneumatic (air) equipment, virtually eliminating cracked kernels. Vessels are scrupulously cleaned after each batch to minimize contamination. Only high quality grains will be malted to ensure a consistent, high extract product. Standard testing will be performed to ensure each batch will perform as promised, and all products will be examined for foreign materials and toxins.

Custom roasting and grinding is available.

Newdale Barley Pale Malt

Ontario soft winter wheat for low protein and classic flavour.

Brewers and distillers can now craft their products from grains grown and malted in Ontario, traceable to the individual grain grower.

720 kg batches are processed through germination with precise computer control, ensuring reproducible results batch to batch. All grain transfers use pneumatic (air) equipment, virtually eliminating cracked kernels. Vessels are scrupulously cleaned after each batch to minimize contamination. Only high quality grains will be malted to ensure a consistent, high extract product. Standard testing will be performed to ensure each batch will perform as promised, and all products will be examined for foreign materials and toxins.

Custom roasting and grinding are available.

Soft Winter Wheat Malt

Ontario rye malt yields the full rye grain spiciness.

Brewers and distillers can now craft their products from grains grown and malted in Ontario, traceable to the individual grain grower.

720 kg batches are processed through germination with precise computer control, ensuring reproducible results batch to batch. All grain transfers use pneumatic (air) equipment, virtually eliminating cracked kernels. Vessels are scrupulously cleaned after each batch to minimize contamination. Only high quality grains will be malted to ensure a consistent, high extract product. Standard testing will be performed to ensure each batch will perform as promised, and all products will be examined for foreign materials and toxins.

Custom roasting and grinding are available.

Rye Malt

Ontario Beyond the Pale barley malt is stewed and roasted to provide 40-60 Lovibond. Converts like the Pale.

Brewers and distillers can now craft their products from grains grown and malted in Ontario, traceable to the individual grain grower.

720 kg batches are processed through germination with precise computer control, ensuring reproducible results batch to batch. All grain transfers use pneumatic (air) equipment, virtually eliminating cracked kernels. Vessels are scrupulously cleaned after each batch to minimize contamination. Only high quality grains will be malted to ensure a consistent, high extract product. Standard testing will be performed to ensure each batch will perform as promised, and all products will be examined for foreign materials and toxins.

Custom roasting and grinding are available.

Beyond the Pale Newdale Barley Malt

Harvest Hop & Malt gives a personal commitment to top quality hops and malt for micro-breweries, distillers and bakers who appreciate organic Ontario grown ingredients. 

Harvest Hop & Malt is owned by Michael Driscoll, a long time supporter of the craft brewing industry.

Founder of the former Sculler Brewing Company, Mike has an appreciation for the challenges and opportunities for Ontario breweries.

A personal commitment to organic food has been translated to the operating principles of Harvest Hop & Malt. Only top quality product will be presented to customers who appreciate chemical free, local, organic ingredients.

Expansion of Bertwell production is underway through growing arrangements with 4 other organic minded growers across Ontario. This year, 410 plants are at full maturity, for a total of 1120 in the ground for increased volume in 2-3 years.

Customers will be able to advertise their 100 mile (or less!) supply, and be assured of predictable volumes every year. Using locally grown ingredients, telling the stories abut the farmers and maltsters who provided them, will educate the public to vote with their dollars for truly local beers!

Committed to micro-breweries, distillers and bakers who appreciate Ontario grown ingredients

Bertwell organic hops provide full floral aromas and a light citric finish.

Tested at 5% Alpha acid.

Bertwells can be obtained fresh early in September, or dried and baled year round. The hops are carefully dried by about 50%, then baled and frozen to retain their brewing qualities for up to 2 years.

Grinding and custom package sizing are available on request.

Bertwell hops may be the first truly Ontario hop. Plants found by Ian Hanna near Picton in 2004 were propagated and tested for two years to determine their ability to produce brewing quality hops.

They are a prolific and hardy variety with consistent brewing qualities comparable to any classic ale hop.

Bertwell hops are named for Bert Grant, the iconic craft brewer (and inveterate hop lover), and Wellington County, the site of their first commercial hopyard.

Lab testing and test brews strengthened a belief that these plants are probably British survivors from Prince Edward County’s ‘Barley Days’, when Upper Canada was a barley and hop growing stronghold of the British Empire.

Bertwell hops have been an ingredient of choice in beers made by Stonehammer Brewing,the London Brewing Co-operative, Charles Maclean, Paul Dickey, Niagara College’s Teaching Brewery, Wellington County Brewery, Nickelbrook Brewery, Trafalgar Brewing, and Mill St. Brewery.

Bertwell hops are grown by select individuals to organic methods, hands on cultivation, and hand picking, to ensure the hops are in their optimum condition, free from damage and contamination, upon delivery.