Possible Clues:

• Cook won't open oven
• Drying house
• Bit of brewing equipment
• Brags endlessly, finding kiln for drying hops
• Do a stretch keeping such a house
• Eliminator of wet hops
• Huge oven for drying hops
• Cases coming from Odessa, short hops here
• Kentish kiln
• Outbuilding that's sometimes converted into a dwelling