Anatolij Choťko, Belorussian Minister of Agriculture, led a delegation that visited headquaters of Bohemia Hop and Chmnelarstvi, cooperative. The Minister was very interested in a Czehc hop industry and asked many questions related to the cultivating, processing and trading hops. Apart from a visit of a processing plant and cold storage, there was an open discussion focused on business and scientific cooperation.
The Hopman Team run the last week in June 2019 the Vineyard Marathon Race in Alsace, France. Bohemia Hop as a traditional partner and sponsor participates in a local races organized regularly by the Team of Hopman - April Half-Marathon and 10 km race, May duathlon, July triathlon, October aquathlon and Advent run race in a Royal Town of Saaz (ŽATEC). All races attract many runners and athlets from the Czech Republic including teams of Bohemia Hop, CHMELAŘSTVÍ, Hop Research Institue and Czech hop growers.
On the occasion of the Vineyard Marathon Race, all members of the Hopman Team wore the Crown of Hops from Bohemia Hop and thus expressed a tradition and importance of Saaz hops for our region.
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.
The CISTA announced new figures of the Czech hop acreage updated on April 30, 2019. The total acreage reaches 5 004 ha. Thus we recorded a small decline by 16 ha in comparison to the acreage of previous crop year (5 020 ha).
In the Saaz region, growers keep the hops on 3 867 ha. It is 11 ha increase compared to the last crop year. The acreage of hops in the Auscha region is on the decrease. Currently, the hops are grown on 516 ha. It is 19 ha less compared to he last crop year. The similar situation is in the Tirschitz region, where the hops are currently grown on 621 ha, 8 ha less in comparison to the 2018 crop year.
The most of acreage is traditionally covered by the Saaz hops. Nevertheless, the figures show 1,95 % decrease of the acreage of this fine aroma variety. The positive trends can be seen on the fields of Sladek , Premiant and Agnus hops. Sladek hops recorded increase in acreage by 24 ha, the acreage of Premiant hops increased by 23 ha and Agnus expanded its acreage on 16 ha of newly planted fileds.
Source: CISTA (ÚKZUZ)
"The hops growing industry in the Czech republic is well established, with a very good infrastructure including production of hop growing machinery and modern picking machines from Chmelarstvi. In addition, the country carries out hop research in the Hop Research Institute,has pellet processing plant and cold storage capacities, mostly operated by Chmelarstvi that has also entered into trading partnership around the world."
Bohemia Hop traditionally participated in Craft Brewers Conference (CBC) and BrewExpo America 2019 that were held in Denver, CO, USA. 14.000 attendees were registered and nearly 1000 exhibitors presented their products during 3 days of the conference and trade show. Many visitors of the show visited our booth to learn more about Czech hops and beer industry as a whole. We also hosted Mr. Petr Jezek from the Embassy of the Czech Republic and Karolina Bartosova from the Ministry of Agriculture in the Czech Republic who came to support our team.
Appart from the trade show, Bohemia Hop participated in the event called" Brewing Like Czechs Do" sponsored and organized by the Czech Embassy in Washington, DC.
Hereby, we would like to thank all participants and organizers for a great show.
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