The first farmer´s bales have been stored in a cold storehouse of Chmelarství, cooperative Zatec. Krupicka Farm from Saaz Region, delivered the first hops from ongoing harvest from hop gardens located in Kozejedy.
Chmelarstvi, cooperative Zatec, has a capacity of its cold storage to store the hops of entire 2018 crop.
The first farms in the Saaz hop growing region started with a hop harvest last week. The harvest will start in full during this week. SAAZ hops are traditionally the first harvested variety. A cold storage of CHMELARSTVI is ready for receiving a new crop.
Representatives of Czech and Japanese Breweries traditionally carried out an inspection of a state of Czech hops and farms. The first lots of hops form 2018 crop should be deliverd to our cold strehouse in the next few days.
Bohemia Hop together with Chmelarstvi, cooperative Zatec organized for Czech growers a trip to Japan. The growers had a chance to get to know the traditionally biggest market of Saaz hops around the world.
The growers had an opportunity to visit warehouses of Kirin Brewery in Yokohama and Suntory Brewery in Kjoto, Japanese hop processsing line and hop gardens of Kirin Brewery. Moreover, the growers visited two famrs in Iwate region located in the north of Japan.
The growers were warmly welcomed. They could find out a respectability of Saaz hops in Japan.
On Monday June 18th 2018, Mr. Takashima, president of the Sapporo Brewery, visited Bohemia Hop. Mr. Takashima inspected the processing line and storage facilities of Chmelarstvi, cooperative Zatec. Besides that, Mr. Takashima took a look at the vegetation of Saaz hops in some parts of Saaz region. After all, the President appreciated an opportunity to visit the Hop Museum in Saaz.
Within the last day of the CBC and Brew Expo America 2018 in Nashville, an official hospitality of CBC called „Brewing Like Czechs Do“ took place. This event was sponsored and organized by the Embassy of the Czech Republic in collaboration with Bohemia Hop. Apart from Bohemia Hop, other Czech companies related with the beer industry participated in this gathering.
Many of Czech brewing legends and professionals from the beer industry supported significantly this event by their presence - Mr. Berka (Pilsner Urquell), Mr. Brož and Mr. Dvořák (both from Budvar), Mr. Chramosil (U fleků; U supa), Mr. Kočka (gipsy brewery Nomád). Moreover, visitors could discuss their issues with representatives of the Hop Growers Union of the Czech Republic and the Hop Research Institute who also assisted in the preparations.
The visitors had a great opportunity to learn more about raw materials and brewing equipment of Czech origin. They could also see and appreciate the aroma within samples of original Czech hops varieties prepared in collaboration with a procurement department of Chmelařství. Taking into consideartion an increasing interest in Bohemia-style lagers, the motto was:“SAAZ – the first choice for Bohemian-style Pilsner“. For this occasion, there were Pilsener-style beers on tap brewed and supplied by the Live Oak and Utepils breweries using only original Czech raw materials including Czech hops (Saaz, Sladek, Kazbek).
It was a pleasure to welcome many significant persons among guests – Charlie Papazian, the founder and former director of BA, Stan Hironymus, American journalist and author of many books (e.g. „For the Love of Hops“) and Hiroyuki Fujirawa, the president of the Japan Beer Journalists Association.
We would like to thank especially Petr Ježek from the Embassy for the support, organization and easy going of the hospitality.
The 3rd Craft Beer China Conference & Exhibition took place from May 16 to May 18, 2018 at Shanghai World Expo Exhibition & Convention Center. Organizers of the exhibition are Nürnberg Messe in cooperation with Beijing Beer Link Cultural Development Co., Ltd. and China Light Industry Machinery Association. The total number of exhibitors reached 180 from 12 coutries this year and the exhibition area was 10.000 sqm that is double area in comparison to 2017 (2017 - 100 exhibitors from 14 countries).
Bohemia Hop a.s. was the only one representative of the Czech republic.
According to accessible sources by organizers, more than 9.000 attendees visited the exhibition. They could attend the presentation during the exhibition where one of the presentation was Czech republic - Home of Saaz hop - quality and certification systems, by Bohemia Hop.
