Bohemia Hop as a leading Czech hop supplier participated in the Czech Brewing Business Mission organized by the Embassy of the Czech Republic in the Hague in cooperation with the CzechTrade agency. During the two-day mission, we visited Brouwerij Het IJ and Brouwerij De Prael in Amsterdam, and Stadshaven Brewery in Rotterdam, where the original warehouse for fruit was redeveloped into a new Craft brewery with a capacity of 20.000 hl. The second day of the mission was designated for B2B dealings, thanks to we got in touch with representatives of local breweries or distributors of raw materials on the Dutch market. Czech hops got the top priority when Jan-Phillip Hopf, Owner of Butcher´s Tears Brewery and Organiser of Czech Pivo Fest, was discoursing on "Renaissance of Lager Beer in the Netherlands, and also thanks to served Czech lager during the event, which we arranged together with the organizers. We would like to thank Ms. Kateřina Sequensová, Ambassador of the Czech Republic in the Hague, Mr. Stanislav Beneš, Minister-Counsellor, Mr. Adam Jareš, director of CzechTrade for Central Europe, and Ms. Dagmar Abtová, project manager.
According to the report from The Central Institute for Supervising and Testing in Agriculture (CISTA/UKZUZ) from December 2021, the total hop production reached 8 306 tons in the Czech Republic in 2021. This is the highest production since 1996, but 25 years ago the hop acreage was 9 355 ha compare to 4 971 ha in 2021.
The total hop production in the Saaz hop region was 6 358 tons, which is 76,5 % out of the total production. In the Auscha hop region the production was 998 tons, which is 12,0 % out of the total hop production and in the Tirschitz hop region the production reached 950 tons (11,5 % out of the total production).
According to the report from The Central Institute for Supervising and Testing in Agriculture (CISTA/UKZUZ) from December 2021, the total hop production reached 8 306 tons in the Czech Republic in 2021. This is the highest production since 1996, but 25 years ago the hop acreage was 9 355 ha compare to 4 971 ha in 2021.
| Variety | Saaz region (ha) | Newly planted (ha) | Auscha region (ha) | Newly planted (ha) | Tirschitz region (ha) | Newly planted (ha) | Czech Republic (ha) | Newly planted (ha) |
| Saaz | 3 299,8 | 176,0 | 410,4 | 20,4 | 473,5 | 14,8 | 4 183,7 | 211,2 |
| Agnus | 47,8 | 4,4 | 11,1 | 3,3 | 1,5 | 0,0 | 60,4 | 7,7 |
| Bohemie | 0,4 | 0,0 | 0,0 | 0,0 | 0,7 | 0,0 | 1,1 | 0,0 |
| Harmonie | 6,8 | 0,0 | 0,0 | 0,0 | 0,0 | 0,0 | 6,8 | 0,0 |
| Kazbek | 13,6 | 0,0 | 4,8 | 0,0 | 3,9 | 0,0 | 22,3 | 0,0 |
| Premiant | 124,0 | 18,5 | 39,5 | 3,0 | 53,3 | 12,7 | 216,8 | 34,2 |
| Rubín | 1,0 | 0,0 | 0,0 | 0,0 | 0,0 | 0,0 | 1,0 | 0,0 |
| Saaz Late | 42,4 | 0,0 | 0,0 | 0,0 | 1,7 | 0,0 | 44,1 | 0,0 |
| Sládek | 237,5 | 18,6 | 50,3 | 8,9 | 86,0 | 2,5 | 373,8 | 30,0 |
| Vital | 3,1 | 0,0 | 0,8 | 0,0 | 0,0 | 0,0 | 3,9 | 0,0 |
| Other | 57,3 | 5,7 | 0,0 | 0,0 | 0,0 | 0,0 | 57,3 | 5,7 |
| Total acreage (ha) | 3 834 | 223 | 517 | 36 | 621 | 30 | 4 971 | 289 |
