COLEGATE HOP PLANTS


Colegate's hop is thoroughly hardy and adapted for growth on damp heavy soils and otherwise difficult growing positions. When well grown and allowed to ripen, they are of fine colour, rich in lupulin and the aroma is very English.

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EARTHY / RESINOUS / WHITE PEPPER

COLEGATE

HERITAGE HOP FIRST INTRODUCED
IN KENT UK 1805 & GROWN IN NZ FROM 1842

The fledgling NZ hop industry was started in Nelson in 1842, being relatively free of strong winds to which the hops were susceptible. The first plantings were Green Bine (Fuggle), Bumford (Old Golding), Cluster (Grape, Colegate from Chevening in Kent) and Golding.

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Our original Colegate (Kent Cluster) plant used for the propagation of the plants we offer for sale on this web site was found growing along a stream in the Nelson area. It grows and crops very well in North Canterbury with a great English aroma when allowed to ripen and picked in mid to late April.

H E Wright, Handybook for Brewers, 1907
Late varieties-Grape Hops (cones appearing clustered, narrowish in proportion to the length and pointed). Colegates (long, narrow cones) are coarse, strong hops yielding heavy crops in the Weald of Kent and Susex.

Clinch, English Hops, 1919
Colegate's Hops [Late]. These hops are long and narrow in form, and very late ripening. The branches are slender and the leaves deeply serrated. This variety is grown in the clay soils of Kent and Sussex. They were introduced about the year 1805 by Mr David Colegate, of Chevening, in Kent. They have almost gone out of cultivation.
H Lloyd Hind, Brewing Science and Practice, Vol 1, 1938
The Colgate, raised from a wild hop by Mr David Colgate of Chevening in 1805, is a small narrow hop, square in section, with thin pale petals and a coarse flavour. It was the latest hop to ripen, frequently not being ready to pick until October (April - Southern Hemisphere), for which reason it was expensive to grow and has been practically abandoned. Really ripe samples were, however, of quite good quality. 
THE HOP PLANT - Professor John Percival, MA, FLS, 1905
The latest ripening of all is the Colegate Hop. The cones are long and narrow, square in section, with thin pale greenish-yellow "petals." The plant has green bines, crops heavily, and is readily distinguished from all other cultivated sorts by the roughness of its branches and leaf ribs, as well as by the deeper serrations on the edges of the leaves. The Colegate hop is thoroughly hardy and adapted for growth on the damp heavy soils of the Weald and other similar districts. When well grown, they are of fine colour and the aroma is usually good.

Journal of the Institute of Brewing, Volume 14, 1908, pages 335-336.
Mr. P. K. Lemay, speaking as a practical brewer, said that when purchasing English hops himself, he first of all divided the samples up into five classes, roughly as follows: (1) Goldings, for pale ale brewing, both for copper use and hopping down; (2) Fuggles, for copper use in mild ales and stouts; (3) Colegates, as a rule a hop rich in lupulin, but strong in flavour; very good copper hops for stouts; (4) Henhams and other varieties of large coarse hops, which from a brewing point of view would be a dear hop to buy; (5) Any class of hops showing mould or aphis blight, which to a brewer would be costly at any price. All classes of hops he found varied from season to season, and what would be considered good for hopping-down one year would be quite out of the question another. Brewers could not always depend on a certain class of hops for any one particular use.

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• PRE - ORDER OPENS AUGUST
• SHIPPING SEPTEMBER - DECEMBER

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ACID COMPOSITIONCONE CHARACTERISTICSGROWTH & STORAGEOIL COMPOSITION
Alpha Acid Composition 4.5%-6%Lupulin Color Pale Yellow
Maturity: Mid to Laye Season Total Oil Composition 0.3-0.4 mls/100 grams 
Beta Acid Composition 5.5%-7%
Cone Size Medium to Large  
Yield: Moderate to HighMyrcene Oil Composition 30%-35% 
Co-Humulone Composition 30%-35%Cone Density ModerateGrowth Rate: VigorousHumulene Oil Composition 16%-18% 
>>Susceptibility to Disease and Pests: New Zealand is hop disease free.Caryophyllene Oil Composition 7%-8%
>>Storability: ModerateCaryophyllene Oil Composition 7%-8%
>>Ease of Harvest: Good<

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