The Central Institute for Supervising and Testing in Agriculture announced the final 2019 crop results. The total hop harvest in the Czech Republic reached 7145 t of hops.
Bohemia Hop and its representatives attended BrauBeviale 2019 trade fair again this autumn. The fair was attended by over 40 000 visitors who got the opportunity to see 1088 exhibitors from 45 countries. Apart from Germany, these were countries such as Italy, China, Great Britain, Austria, Belgium and last but not least, the Czech Republic.
The representatives of Bohemia Hop were delighted to meet traditional customers as well as potentially new hop buyers, which was evidenced on the "Wall of Fame" that was accompanied by a series of photographs.
Bohemia Hop as a traditional exhibitor had following beers on tap:
1) REZIDENT 11,5° Plato – Pioneer Beer, Žatec
2) HOPPY PILS 12,5° Plato – Pioneer Beer, Žatec
3) VINOHRADSKÁ 12° Plato – Vinohradský Brewery, Prague
4) KAZBEK ALE 12,5° Plato – Hop Research Institute in Žatec
5 IPA 14,6° Plato – Hop Research Institute in Žatec
Our team would like to thank all the visitors and people related with the exhibition.
Fifteen American and Canadian brewers were welcomed in companies Chmelarstvi, cooperative Žatec and Bohemia Hop within the framework of an incoming mission from the U.S.A. and Canada. The mission was accompanied by Petr Ježek, the Agriculture Attaché of the Czech Embassy in Washington, David Müller, Head of Economic and Trade Section of the Czech Consulate in Toronto and Jerry Jelinek, Head of Foreign Office of the Czech Republic in Calgary. During the five-day programme in the Czech Republic, the participants of the mission spent one afternoon in both of the above-mentioned companies. Lectures on the current state of hop growing were given by Zdeněk Rosa, chairman of Chmelarstvi and by Josef Patzak, director of Hop Research Institute. The brewers also visited the premises of the hop packing plant and the Hop Museum. A great success was also the visit of the Žatec microbrewery Pioneer, which was led by the brewer and owner Michal Havrda.
We would like to thank the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for organization of this mission and for the opportunity of being part of this event.
The representatives of Bohemia Hop company are going to participate in BrauBeviale 2019, which will be held from 12th to 14th November, in Nuremberg, Germany. We will be very glad to meet with you at our stand nr. 548, Hall 1.
Saaz hops festivities, so-called Dočesná (and its 62nd year), were held from 6th to 7th of September. CHMELAŘSTVÍ, co-operative Žatec and BOHEMIA HOP company supported this event again.
Representatives of CHMELAŘSTVÍ and BOHEMIA HOP took part in traditional beer tasting, which was held on Thursday and Friday at Hop Research Institute Co. During the festivities a number of meetings with Czech as well as foreign breweries took place.
Also, the Japanese brewery Suntory participated at Dočesná. The representatives of Chinese brewery Tsingtao were also present. The Chinese ambassador in the Czech Republic Mr. Zhang Jianmin accepted the invitation for the beer tasting and the Japanese Ambassador Mr. Kaoru Schimazaki was present at the opening ceremony. He has already visited the Hop Museum in Žatec earlier this year.
Quality Czech hops are the basis of premium beer brands from all over the world. Therefore, many representatives of Czech as well as foreign breweries are coming during the hop harvest to Žatec.
All through the harvest a large number of hops customers are likely to be met in Saaz region every day. According to the board chairman of CHMELAŘSTVÍ, Zdeněk Rosa, the breweries are delighted by the good quality of harvested hops and also by the prerequisite of fulfillment of long-term contracts for the supply of hops.
Many breweries have incorporated hop harvesting into their educational programs for their employees. Last week, Karel Dittrich´s Farm in Lenešice in cooperation with BOHEMIA HOP company welcomed more than 100 people from Pilsner Urquell during three traditional harvest events.
The employees of the breweries tried hops hand picking and they also got acquainted with the hops harvesting process at present and its further journey into a cold storehouse in Žatec. In the hop gardens the best tapsters and sales representatives of Pilsner Urquell from all different countries in the world, such as Japan, Korea, India, Sweden or Denmark, were meeting during those days.
The harvest is used for special batches that are brewed from the wet hops. The hop growers highly appreciate these visits accompanied by the BOHEMIA HOP representatives.
