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The Hopsteiner Guidelines 2010 will soon be published and be available at BRAU 2010 in Nuremberg. We are still working on some details of the beer production and will present the balance of World Alpha Acid Supply and Demand as soon as possible.

Light Stable Kettle Extract (LSKE) can be used to brew beers in much the same way as beers produced using conventional CO2-Extract.

In the hop garden portrayed on the left hand side (growing Perle), no re-training was carried out after the hail storm due to little time and a lack of man power and time. One can see quite clearly that only very few laterals have reached the top of the wire of

The official German 2010 hop crop estimates were published on August 26th. Following please find those estimates as well as the final world

Mid-year acreage estimates for all major hop growing countries have been published. After the 13.4% acreage increase from 2007 to 2008 there has now been a decrease of at least 11.6% for crop 2010. The largest decreases have occurred in USA and China, and the decrease in the PRC could in fact be larger than published. Overall the decrease takes worldwide hop acreage back to its 2007 level, which at the time did not supply enough alpha to meet demand. In the meantime variables have changed so short-term supply should be adequate. ...

Once every two years we publish the results of our world beer analyses. For this study, worldwide brands with a yearly production of at least 1 Million hl were selected. These brands represent approx. 43% of the total beer production in 2009, about 720 Million hl beer respectively.

As you know, the shortfall of alpha acid for the brewing industry from crops 2005, 2006 and 2007 resulted in acreage increases for crop 2008.

1) After quite a long winter, spring work was started in the hop fields some days ago. Some farmers are still fastening the wires for training the hop vines. Normally, this work will have already been done whilst the ground is frosty in winter in order to avoid surface damage to the soil by heavy machinery.

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