Thank you for being part of our journey this year. Wishing you good health and many successes in the year ahead, both personally and professionally.
Bohemia Hop, a.s., a subsidiary of CHMELAŘSTVÍ, družstvo Žatec and the largest Czech hop trading company, won 3rd place in the main category of medium‑sized companies in the Exporter of the Year 2025 competition. The award for export growth in 2023–2024 was received on December 15 in the Senate of the Parliament of the Czech Republic by Chairman of the Board Mgr. Zdeněk Rosa.
Read more: Bohemia Hop Succeeded in the Exporter of the Year 2025 Competition
According to the official report from the Central Institute for Supervising and Testing in Agriculture issued on December 2, 2025, total hop production in the Czech Republic in 2025 reached 6,909 tons, which ranks it among those slightly above average.
This fall, a beer resulting from a joint effort by the breweries Budějovický Budvar and Bila Shaka was introduced in Kenya, where our sales manager Tomas Roubik represented Bohemia Hop company. Czech Mates, a Czech-style lager brewed at the Bila Shaka brewery in Kenya under the supervision of the brewers from both breweries using decoction brewing, is a successful endeavor. The outcome is very satisfying because the beer, thanks to double mashing, gains a fuller body, and due to 100% hopping with the Saaz hop variety supplied by Bohemia Hop, it has a typical delicate hop aroma of Czech lagers and a higher bitterness for the local market (around 28 IBU). This bitterness precisely completes the overall impression of the lager and provides very pleasant drinkability.
Read more: Successful Kenyan Collaboration CZECH MATES with Czech Hops!
From September 15 to 19, 2025, we took part in the international DRINKTEC trade fair in Munich—one of the most prominent events in the beverage industry. Our company was proud to host its own exhibition booth, where we showcased our services and products to a wide range of industry professionals.
From a temperature perspective, August was slightly below average – the mean temperature was 0.3 °C lower than the long-term average. Tropical temperatures occurred at the beginning of the second decade of the month, with the highest temperature of 35.6 °C recorded on August 15. In total, there were 5 tropical days in August, one more than in July.
