Bohemia Hop (BH) in cooperation with the Hop Research Institute (HRI) in Zatec organized a gathering and educational session focused on the application of Czech hops in the brewing industry that took place on 28th March 2019. This event was great opportunity to introduce newly registered Czech hop varieties and to compare performences of Harmonie and Country hops in beer. Apart form this round of evaluation, the participants evaluated beers brewed with Kazbek, Saaz and Saaz Late hops.
The first year of a new beer competition called "The Kazbek Cup 2019" took place during the seminars parallelly. The judges evaluated 38 smaples of beer where 50% of Kabek hops was the minimum quantity used for hopping.
Results in a category of "Bottom Fementated Beer": 1st HarmoniKa Beer (microbrewery U Orloje - The Hop and Beer Tample in Zatec), 2nd 12 Kazbek Single Hop Beer (Volt Brewery), 3rd Rebel Drsoň (Měšťanského pivovaru Havlíčkův Brod).
Results in a category of "Top Fementated Beer":1st ExperimentAle (microbrewery U Orloje - The Hop and Beer Tample in Zatec), 2nd Kazbek Beer (Trilobit Brewery), 3rd Kazbek Ale (Experimental Brewery of the Hop Research Institute in Zatec)
Bohemia Hop in collaboration with the Czech Embassy in Washington and Ministry of Agriculture of the Czech Republic organizes an educational and presentation gathering called "Brewing Like Czechs Do" (BLCD) taking place on April 9, 2019 in the Convention Center (Rm 102 - 106), Denver, CO, USA. The BLCD is an official sponsored event of CBC following on the same event organized at the CBC in Nashville in 2018.
The Beer Seal 2019 competition together with a beer fest in Budweiss (České Budějovice) took place the second week in February 2019. Bohemia Hop as a sponsor was represented by Tomas Roubik. Zdenek Rosa, Chairman of Bohemia Hop and Chmelarstvi, participated in the Beer Seal Award Ceremony.
245 breweries from 20 countries sent 1245 beer samples to be evaluated in 33 categories.
Sapporo Breweries, BOHEMIA HOP and CHMELAŘSTVÍ, družstvo Žatec held a regular meeting with Czech hop supplieres from the Saaz region that took place on 22nd February 2019. Mr. Koie from the Sapporo Breweries and Mr. Hejduk from EAT delivered an actual market information and provided further traning of CCFS program for their suppliers. Main topics were traditionaly focused on a hop treatmen and CCFS news.
We were pleased to hear about the Sapporo Classic brand using Saaz hops that has recorded 18-year consecutive growth in a production.
Mr. Koie appreciated a good cooperation and growers efforts to work on CCFS program. PROBIOS Kounov from Rakovnik district was awarded as the best farm and supplier of hops in 207 and 2018.
Bohemiahop and Chmelarstvi, cooperative Zatec organized a regional meetings with Czech growers that took place on 8th and 9th January 2019. During this traditional event, representatives of Bohemiahop and Chmelarstvi awarded their best hop supplier from an each Czech hop-growing region. Besides the award ceremony, growers learnt about news from the hop industry. Presentations were delivered by representatives of Bohemia Hop, Chmelarstvi, Hop Research Institute, Ltd. and Hop Growers Union of the Czech republic.
The Best Regional Supplier Award gained MORAVA HOP a.s from Tirschitz Region, AGEKO spol. sr.o. from Auscha Region and RAKOCHMEL s.r.o. from Saaz Region.
Bohemia Hop and Chmelarstvi would like to thank all contractors for their supplies from the 2018 Crop.
The 4th annual World Beer Idol competition was held on 12th January 2019 in Prag. The world’s beer sommeliers and judges evaluated almost 200 beer samples and selected the very best beer across all categories. More information about the WBI can be found here.
Bohemia Hop is a traditional sponsor of the WBI.
