Research for hops…

…because the ensurance of raw material supply for the brewery industry and the future of German hop farms are of prime importance.

News

General Meeting 2023

14.03.2023

Society for Hop Research reorganises its Board of Directors

Wolnzach/Hüll, 9 March 2023 Before the start of the new hop year, the Society for Hop Research (GfH) invited members to its general meeting at the German Hop Museum in Wolnzach. The GfH traditionally reviews the past fiscal year and at the same time provides an outlook on current challenges and research projects for the coming growing season.

TITAN – Licences can be concluded

19.01.2023

After 10 years of intensive observation, cone monitoring, extensive agronomic tests on various German hop-growing sites, as well as numerous brewing trials with different beer styles, the Society of Hop Research (Gesellschaft für Hopfenforschung e.V., GfH) together with the Plant Breeding Group of the Bavarian State Research Centre for Agriculture, has presented the breeding strain 2011/71/19 with the variety name TITAN (TTN) and applied for plant variety protection at the Community Plant Variety Office (CPVO).

Now licences can be concluded with the GfH for the cultivation and marketing of this high alpha variety.

I.H.G.C. list of international hop varieties

23.11.2022

The Scientific-Technical Commission is annually compiling and updating the I.H.G.C. list of international hop varieties produced in each hop-growing nation. This official variety list of the I.H.G.C. is intended as an aid for the official certification procedure and shall provide an up-to-date overview of the increasingly confusing and highly dynamic field of international hop variety diversity. Usually, it is published every year briefly prior to the BrauBeviale trade fair in Nuremberg in November.

Miracle Hops

On average, hop grows 10 centimeters a day.
Under favourable conditions it can even grow 35 centimeters a day!

Miracle Hops 2

1516 – the year of the purity law!
Before its issue in the Bavarian town of Ingolstadt, beer had even been spiced, with henbane, roots, soot or chips.

Miracle Hops 2

On one hectare hop, 3600 up to 4500 hop plants are grown on average that can be left in the ground for approximately 50 years.

Miracle Hops 2

Until harvest at the end of August, one vine takes 5000 up to 10000 cones.