The representatives of Bohemia Hop together with Vaclav Berka participated in the World Beer Cup Awards Ceremony. The 2.493 breweries sent 10.542 samples of their beers to the competition. The samples were evaluated in 103 categories. The increasing demand for bottom fermented beers in North America caused that lagers had second most entries behind IPA category. The Brewers Association awarded the price in Bohemian-Style Pilsner category to Confluance Brewing, Port City Brewing a Chuckanut Brewery.
The official hospitality of the CBC sponsored by the Czech embassy in DC and organized by Petr Jezek followed up on the presentation „Wanna Brew True Pilsner?“. The main purpose of this event that visited more than 500 attendees is to introduce Czech companies from the whole Czech brewing industry – raw materials, technologies, equipment etc. Czech hop industry was represented by Bohemia Hop, Hops Research Institute and Hop Growers Union of the Czech Republic. All attendees had great opportunity to taste the beers brewed with original Czech hops. Utepils, Live Oak, Aslan a Halfway Crooks breweries supported this event with their beers. Radek Holomcik, deputy Minister of Agriculture, opened the event and thanked all Czech companies for participation. Besides the Czech companies and Vaclav Berka, the attendees were able to meet the brewers from other Czech breweries, for example Adam Brož from Budvar Brewery and to discuss with them.
The Bohemian Style lager was the topic of the presentation „Wanna Brew True Pilsner?“ that became the most favourite and visited presentation of the show. The hall with capacity of almost 1.400 chairs was crowded and it was impossible to find a free chair. Moreover, many participants had to stay in front of the doors of the hall. The legendary Czech brewer Vaclav Berka, emeritus Head Brewer of Pilsner Urquell, and Zdenek Rosa, chairman of Bohemia Hop and Cooperative of Czech hop Growers, were the key speakers. Many feedbacks after the presentation showed the phenomenal success. The speakers were allowed to respond to participants even 40 minutes after their presentations. Moreover, many attendees came subsequent days to our booth to thank the speakers.
The show took place in Minneapolis, MN the first week in May. A Czech Dark Lager brewed with Kazbek hops in Bent Paddle Brewery was the official beer of this year conference - CBC 2022 Commemorative Beer. All participants got this beer during their registration. More information about this beer can be obtained from this link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=An6249CYNsI&t=84s
Bohemia Hop represented by Zdenek Rosa, Vladimir Seretka, Tomas Roubik and Jan Podsednik had traditionally own booth at the side exhibition. The big number of visitors of our booth showed increasing demand for original Czech hops.
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.
