Every two years, the World Beer Cup competition and its award ceremony are held in pursuance of the Craft Brewers Conference and Brew Expo America show. This year, 2.628 breweries from 69 countries competed for the awards.
Totally 8.580 entries were registered in 101 beer style categories. A highly qualified panel of 306 beer judges from 34 countries (83 U.S. judges) had evaluated and honored beers in particular categories.
Among competing breweries, even 6 Czech breweries with 16 beer samples strived for the awards. Some of Czech brewing legends and professionals from the beer industry were embodied in the panel of judges – Mr. Berka, Mr. Brož and Mr. Dvořák represented Czech Industrial breweries, Mr. Chramosil, Mr. Kočka, Mr. Šuráň and Mr. Janík represented Czech craft breweries. Some of these legends even supported significantly by their presences another event called „Brewing Like Czechs Do“ organized and sponsored by the Czech Embassy in collaboration with the Bohemia Hop with the help of Hop Growers Union of the Czech Republic and Hop research institute.
The CBC closing ceremony and World Beer Cup Award 2018 ceremony took place in the Music City Centre in Nashville on May 3. Before honoring top three beers in particular categories with bronze, silver and gold awards, BA held the Closing Night Beer-Paired Dinner.
Bohemia Hop together with representatives of the Czech Embassy, Hop Research Institute Hop Growers Union of the Czech Republic enjoyed this astonishing nigth. Unfortunally , Czech breweries have achieved no award.
The Craft Brewers Conference and Brew Expo America 2018 took place from April 30 to May 3 2018. In its 35 year, It was the first time CBC was held in Nashville, TN, USA. This event is one of the biggest and most popular social and commercial events being related with the beer industry.
According to highlights of 35th CBC published by the BA, almost 15.000 attendees and 726 exhibitors from all over the world participated in this event. More then 200 speakers performed their presentations at the seminars of the Conference.
Bohemia Hop had traditionally the booth at the show. Immense number of professionals from the beer industry visited us to learn more about Czech Hop varieties and to get to know more information about the Czech beer industry as a whole. Apart from the show, Bohemia Hop organized in collaboration with the Czech Embassy in Washington D.C. an official sponsored hospitatlity called „Brewing Like Czechs Do“. The beers made by the LiveOak and Utepils breweries using only Czech original hop varieties – SAAZ, SLADEK and KAZBEK were offered during this event that took place on May 3 in a corridor of the City Music Center before the World Beer Cup 2018 Award ceremony.
The Show is starting!
Bohemia Hop is traditionally participating in Craft Brewers Conference (CBC) and BrewExpo America 2018 that is held from 30th April-3rd May 2018 in Nashville, TN, USA.
Bohemia Hop will be pleased to meet you at our booth nr.2045.
Bohemia Hop is a member of Brewers Association of America, the Czech Beer and Malt Association and The Czech-Moravian Union of Microbreweries.
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 18th April 2017. This event was great opportunity to introduce two newly registered Czech hop varieties Jazz and Country. The utilization of Kazbek hops was demonstrated within a beer testing as well.
A superb performance of Kazbek hops in evaluated beers has risen a discussion about various possibilities of use of this variety.
Bohemiahop and Chmelarstvi, cooperative Zatec organized a regional meetings with Czech growers that took place on 16th and 17th January 2018. 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 Jana Machackova from Tirschitz Region, Poskocil s.r.o. from Auscha Region and RD Dobromerice from Saaz Region.
Bohemia Hop and Chmelarstvi would like to thank all contractors for their supplies from the 2017 Crop.
The third annual World Beer Idol competition was held the first weekend in January 2018 in the friendly atmosphere of the Czech microbreweries Zichovecký Pivovar and Továrna Slaný. The world’s beer sommeliers evaluated and selected the very best beer across all categories. Zdenek Rosa, Chairman of Bohemia Hop, represented ourr company as a member of judging committee.
