Mr. Ikuya Yoshida, the vice president of Sapporo Brewery, visited our Royal Town of Saaz on May 23, 2019. Apart from his official program, he found a time in his tigth schedule to visit the  „U Orloje“ brewery belonging to the Hop and Beer Temple.

His official program included also a visit of Chmelarstvi, cooperative Zatec. Mr. Yoshida accompanied by Mr. Nokura and Mr. Hejduk from EAT was carefully listening the information about current trends on the field of growing hops. Mr. Yoshida focused his quetions on an irrigation and breeding hops. Mr. Yoshida was very interested as well in a process of hop certification and a key role of CISTA during verifying Czech hops.