Annual General Meeting of the Society for Hop Research focusses on sustainability issues in hop production

Wolnzach/Hüll, 22 March 2024 To kick off the new hop year, the Gesellschaft für Hopfenforschung e.V. (GfH) invited members to the Annual General Meeting at the German Hop Museum in Wolnzach. In accordance with the statutes of the association, which has over 450 members worldwide, Chairman of the Board Dr Michael Möller gave a report on the past year and also provided an outlook on current challenges and research projects for the coming growing season.

The Society for Hop Research e.V. cordially invites all its members to this year’s General Meeting on Thursday, 21 March 2024 at 2:00 pm
at the German Hop Museum Wolnzach.

The Scientific-Technical Commission is annually compiling and updating the I.H.G.C. list of international hop varieties produced with a commercial purpose in each hop-growing nation.

International Hop Growers Convention 2023

At this year’s International Hop Growers Convention (IHGC) in the Slovenian capital Ljubjana, more than 80 scientists from a total of 16 nations gathered from 25 to 29 June.

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The collected presentations of the Proceedings of the Scientific-Technical Commission can be found under the following link, edited by Dr. Florian Weihrauch, head of the IPZ 5e working group at the Hop Research Centre Hüll: Proceedings_STC_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.

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.