Snapped: Arkell's Hopping Mad for Micro Brews

Arkell’s Brewery in Swindon is producing a limited edition range of bitters using several English grown hops to flavour the beer. The local brewery will produce 30 barrels (the equivalent of 8500 pints) of each of the five different hop beers - which in the past, have proven to be very popular with customers. With the 2013 hop harvest well underway; Head Brewer of Swindon-based Arkell’s Brewery, Alex Arkell, visited Herefordshire-based hop growers Mark and Lesley Andrews of Townend Farm, Ledbury to find out more about the process.