The beginnings…
Initially, HOPSTORE was the link between the need for organic hops on one side and organic hop producers on the other.
We started like this and grew like this.
Starting with the first refrigerators:
…then the small 12m3 cold room at our place next to the offices,
…then temporarily housed with producer friends because they were still cramped for space,
…then to a refrigerated transport company,
…then at yet another place in Mâcon to finish…
And now…
Along the way, we faced a challenge: more and more producers we were starting to work with were not equipped to pelletize their harvest.
So at first we had it done here, then there, then here and there… with all the balancing work required to make the schedules of all these people work.
Not to mention the wide variety of finished products (bags, types of pellets, etc.), the additional delays, costs and risks associated with transport between producers and processors – some of you may remember that we lost 1.5 tons of freshly pelletized hops in smoke in our transporter’s warehouse, which completely caught fire!
In short, this no longer satisfied us; and in 2021 we made the decision to add another string to our bow by investing in a complete processing line.
We were going to produce the pellets offered in the shop ourselves (except for certain imported hops). We were going to become producer-merchants!
So we moved again to a large warehouse which we occupy today.
We installed a cold room, dry storage, pellet production line, and order preparation/shipping area there.
Since 2017 we have been creating, imagining, working hard, believing, launching, renewing ourselves… all thanks to and for you!
Thank you for your curiosity, your trust, and your loyalty. It is necessary and precious.
See you soon!
Js & Leïa
