Craft beer is the art and science of making beer that can have many different flavors traditionally not found in beer such as coffee, lemon, and fruits. It all started in the 1980s in the US, when rebel brewers began to make their own beer in small batches as a...
The first documented hop cultivation was in 736, in the Hallertau region of in Germany. At the time already many monasteries were using hops for making beer. During the 13th century, brewers experimented with other herbs, such as gruit, as bittering agents in beer....
The largest contiguous hops growing area in the world is located in the Hallertau region in the state of Bavaria in Germany. Here, growing premium hops and brewing beer has a long tradition. It is no surprise then to find one of the worlds’s most advanced hop research...
In May, representatives from HVG (Hopfenverwertungsgenossenschaft e.G.) Germany invited beer lovers, craft beer enthusiasts and hops aficionados to sample free beer from Germany and learn about premium hops from genuine German grown hops at Beernanza Shanghai 2018....
If you have been to Germany during March, April or May, you might have noticed a beer that tastes and looks different from normal Ales or Pilsner. Especially in Bavaria, there has been a long tradition of producing bock beer. The style known now as bock was a dark,...
Hops are one of the main ingredients in beer. The German Reinheitsgebot (=purity law) specifies only four ingredients which are allowed to make a good brew. Besides hops, the other ingredients are water, malt, and yeast. But hops are special, because the premium hops...
