Mr. Ikuya Yoshida, the vice president of Sapporo Brewery, visited our Royal Town of Saaz on May 23, 2019. Apart from his official program, he found a time in his tigth schedule to visit the „U Orloje“ brewery belonging to the Hop and Beer Temple.
His official program included also a visit of Chmelarstvi, cooperative Zatec. Mr. Yoshida accompanied by Mr. Nokura and Mr. Hejduk from EAT was carefully listening the information about current trends on the field of growing hops. Mr. Yoshida focused his quetions on an irrigation and breeding hops. Mr. Yoshida was very interested as well in a process of hop certification and a key role of CISTA during verifying Czech hops.
The CISTA announced new figures of the Czech hop acreage updated on April 30, 2019. The total acreage reaches 5 004 ha. Thus we recorded a small decline by 16 ha in comparison to the acreage of previous crop year (5 020 ha).
In the Saaz region, growers keep the hops on 3 867 ha. It is 11 ha increase compared to the last crop year. The acreage of hops in the Auscha region is on the decrease. Currently, the hops are grown on 516 ha. It is 19 ha less compared to he last crop year. The similar situation is in the Tirschitz region, where the hops are currently grown on 621 ha, 8 ha less in comparison to the 2018 crop year.
The most of acreage is traditionally covered by the Saaz hops. Nevertheless, the figures show 1,95 % decrease of the acreage of this fine aroma variety. The positive trends can be seen on the fields of Sladek , Premiant and Agnus hops. Sladek hops recorded increase in acreage by 24 ha, the acreage of Premiant hops increased by 23 ha and Agnus expanded its acreage on 16 ha of newly planted fileds.
Source: CISTA (ÚKZUZ)
"The hops growing industry in the Czech republic is well established, with a very good infrastructure including production of hop growing machinery and modern picking machines from Chmelarstvi. In addition, the country carries out hop research in the Hop Research Institute,has pellet processing plant and cold storage capacities, mostly operated by Chmelarstvi that has also entered into trading partnership around the world."
Bohemia Hop traditionally participated in Craft Brewers Conference (CBC) and BrewExpo America 2019 that were held in Denver, CO, USA. 14.000 attendees were registered and nearly 1000 exhibitors presented their products during 3 days of the conference and trade show. Many visitors of the show visited our booth to learn more about Czech hops and beer industry as a whole. We also hosted Mr. Petr Jezek from the Embassy of the Czech Republic and Karolina Bartosova from the Ministry of Agriculture in the Czech Republic who came to support our team.
Appart from the trade show, Bohemia Hop participated in the event called" Brewing Like Czechs Do" sponsored and organized by the Czech Embassy in Washington, DC.
Hereby, we would like to thank all participants and organizers for a great show.
More inforamtion about the show
The Brewing Like Czechs Do is an event promoting Czech raw materials and technologies for the brewing industry and is mainly focused on Czech hop varieties. This even is supported by Czech state program PROPED subsidy and organized and sponsored by the Czech Embassy in Washington D.C.
In 2019, “Brewing like Czechs Do” took place in Denver as the official hospitality suit of the Craft Brewers Conference and Brew Expo America 2019 (April 8 – 12).
Bohemia Hop as a co-organizer of the event participated in collaboration with the Hop Research Institute and Hop Growers Union of the Czech Republic. Hundreds of visitors from USA and international brewing industry gathered for the workshop and tasted beers with Czech experts. There were several beers on tap - Bohemian-Style lagers made in the USA and brewed with the original Czech hops, mainly using the unique fine aroma Saaz variety. The beers were brewed and supplied by the Live Oak, Port City Brewing Co. and Aslan Brewing Co.
The visitors had a great opportunity to learn more about raw materials and brewing equipment of the Czech origin. Traditional Czech hop varieties were prepared in collaboration with the procurement department of CHMELARSTVI, cooperative Zatec. Moreover, the Hop Research Institute presented samples of perspective hop varieties that are in a trial mode of growing for the time being. Some of these varieties should be registered within one year.
We would like to thank especially Mr.Petr Ježek from the Embassy and Mrs. Karolina Bartosova from the Ministry of Agriculture for the support, organization and easy going of the hospitality.
The Brazilian largest beer festival accompanied by the trade show focused on craft breweries took place March 13 – 15, 2019 in Blumenau, SC. Bohemia Hop participated in the trade show as an exhibitor and bearer of the Czech hop growing and trade tradition. Our stand we had together with other Czech companies related in the brewing industry (Contechin, Cheops, Atelier Tsunami, Hutira, Bragente) visited hundreds of visitors including representatives of the state of Santa Catarina, City of Blumenau and FECOMERCIO.
Apart from the trade show, several backing presentations organized by the Czech General Consulate were realized in pursuance of the PROPED subsidy from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ministry of Agriculture. Representatives of the Czech companies presented their companies as an integral part of the Czech brewing industry. Besides, Jan Podsednik from Bohemia Hop company delivered the information even about a decoction way of brewing beer and application of Czech hops.
