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.
The Standing Senate Commission on Rural Development did not miss the start of the hop harvest. The group of senators including a head of the Commission Mr. Miroslav Nenutil and Ms. Zdenka Hamousova, senator and Mayor of the Royal Town of Saaz, visited our region at the begining of the harvest. Zdenek Rosa, the chairman of Chmelarstvi, guided them through Chmelarstvi, cooperative Zatec, The Beer and Hop Temple, PP Servis, Steknik Castle and hop farm of Emil Bures Hopservis. Senators could learn more about the harvest equipment, processing,storing and verifying the authencity of hops.
The information from the Central Institute for Supervising and Testing in Agriculture (UKZUZ – the main certification authority for hops which is a part of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Czech Republic) that we received this week regarding a change in the graphic form of the Certificate for a certified product (ie. for hops and hop products).
With these changes the graphic of the certificate was changed but at the same time all information remain there (information on variety, crop year, region, type of product, identification numbers plus reference numbers that connect the certificate to further documents such as the weight list or labels on the hop products). We are also glad that the historical hop graphics are still a part of the new certificate.
If required the hop trading companies can apart from the electronic version still ask for a paper version (in the new format) that can be signed and stamped. Otherwise all communication (certificates, weight list will now be only available in an electronic version with a digital signature).
This change is valid from August 15th 2019.
Enclosed please see samples (in Czech language VZOR (Example)) of the new certificates that will be going with all Czech hop products from now on.
