De Duitse Barth-Haas Group, 's werelds grootste hophandelaar,...Bart-Haas Group is een Duits bedrijf en de grootste hophandelaar ter wereld. Hop is een van de belangrijkste ingediënten van bier, en daarom heeft Barth-Haas een goede kijk op de wereldwijde productie van bier. Bekijk het rapport van de Barth-Haas Group (www.biernet.nl/nieuws/china-brouwde-meeste-bier-ter-wereld-in-2012).
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Joh. Barth & Sohn is Germany’s leading provider of hop‐related services. Joh. Barth & Sohn is part of the Barth‐Haas Group. The group operates on every continent and is made up of family‐owned companies. The Group has around 600 employees worldwide.
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The group is made up of family‐owned companies, with locations in Germany, the United
States, Australia, the United Kingdom and China. A global market presence is thus
guaranteed (www.barthhaasgroup.com/images/pdfs/report2013/Press%20Kit%20Barth.pdf).
Joh. Barth & Sohn GmbH & Co. KG, Nuremberg, was founded in 1794 and has since become the market leader in hop trading and processing in Germany. While the business activities of Joh. Barth & Sohn were originally focused exclusively on hop trading, since the 1960s hop processing has become the company’s second main business field.
Joh. Barth & Sohn GmbH & Co. KG, Nuremberg, was founded in 1794 and has since become the market leader in hop trading and processing in Germany. While the business activities of Joh. Barth & Sohn were originally focused exclusively on hop trading, since the 1960s hop processing has become the company’s second main business field.
Hop Products Australia in Hobart/Tasmania grows and processes hops for the domestic and world markets. The company pursues an intensive research programs concentrating on breeding new aroma and alpha varieties.
Barth-Haas UK Ltd., with one facility in the United Kingdom is the centre of excellence in the group for Hop Oils and Hop Aroma Products. Barth-Haas UK Ltd. also manufactures the full range of advanced products on behalf of the group at its facility.
BetaTec Hopfenprodukte GmbH was founded in Nuremberg in 1997. BetaTec is actively engaged in research and development, with its core competence in hops, and focuses in particular on developing applications for hop products outside the brewing industry. BetaTec is a 100% subsidiary of John I. Haas Inc.
Barth-Haas (Beijing) Trade Co. Ltd. in People's Republic of China. The company, along with Xinjiang Green Diamond Hop Co, Ltd. In Xinjiang and Gansu Tianma Hops Co. Ltd. in Gansu provides hop trading and processing of domestic and imported hops and hop products to the Chinese market.
Simply Hops Ltd.
Companies of different sizes require different approaches. Simply Hops Ltd. allows Joh. Barth and Sohn to respond to the specific needs of smaller breweries and fulfil the additional objective of efficiently supplying such establishments with high-quality hop products. Simply Hops Ltd. thus offers a selection of the renowned Barth product range to smaller consumers – e.g. 5kg pellets.
Orders are carried out through e-commerce and dispatched immediately to the customer.
Barth Innovations Ltd is a centre for innovation, servicing the R&D needs of the European member companies of the Barth-Haas Group, namely, Joh. Barth & Sohn GmbH, in Germany and UK. The goals of Barth Innovations Ltd. are to develop innovative, hop-based products, primarily for the global brewing industry. Improve manufacturing processes within the Group’s companies. Extend application expertise and technical support for the use of our products. Develop an R&D program relevant to the future needs of the Barth-Haas Group. Intensify co-operation with universities and other institutions.
NATECO², based in Wolnzach, began operations in the field of hop extraction in the 1960s. Today, the company is the world's largest manufacturer of hop extracts and natural substances produced using CO& as a solvent. Co-partner with an ownership share of 40% in NATECO² is Hopfenverwertungsgenossenschaft Hallertau (HVG).
The Barth-Haas Group also owns Hopfenveredlung St. Johann GmbH & Co. KG in St. Johann, which has its own research brewery and cold storage facilities equipped with state-of-the-art technology. Hopfenveredlung St. Johann operates the world's largest hop pelletization plant for pellet types 45 and 90. HVG is also a co-partner in Hopfenveredlung St. Johann with an ownership share of 40% (www.barthhaasgroup.com/en/about-us/companies).
Founded in 1794, the Barth-Haas Group today is managed by the 7th and 8th generations of Barth family members. Our thinking spans generations. We are dedicated to our customers by providing reliable service and support in all aspects of hops. We speak your language. From our highly trained sales personnel to our expert logistical staff, we communicate effectively in a vast number of languages (www.barthhaasgroup.com/en/).
Over the years, we have been able to establish strong partnerships on the basis of the individual private companies within the Barth Group which are located around the world. The Barth-Haas Group is a financial sponsor of the European Beer Star and the World Beer Cup, as well as further – both established and up-and-coming – brewing industry events. As such it aims to actively promote the continuity and development of quality and diversity in beer varieties in all their many forms around the world. Furthermore, we have also been awarding grants for innovative hop projects since 2007 (www.barthhaasgroup.com/en/about-us/commitment).
The Barth-Haas Group is the world's largest supplier of hops, hop products and services. The Group is family owned and is active on all continents. With offices in Germany, the United States, Australia, Switzerland, China and the United Kingdom, we are ideally placed to meet the needs of brewers, large and small, wherever they are located.
We are active in all parts of the supply chain from growing to recipe development and beer appreciation. Whether it be breeding or cultivation, quality assurance or the application of high performance hop products, we are there! (www.barthhaasgroup.com/en/about-us/companies)
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For more than 200 years, we have been at the forefront of innovation in the hop industry and have thus remained the partner of choice to our customers. We apply the results of our research activities across our supply chain allowing us to create new hop varieties, new products, innovative applications and services for our customers' satisfaction! Our innovation centres (Barth Innovations Ltd., UK and Haas Innovations, USA) are dedicated to unlocking the full potential of hops. Our areas of concentration include:
New hop products
Hop flavour formulations
Development or reformulation of beer recipes
Applications and processes
Our breeding centres in the United States and Australia generate hundreds of crosses every year to create new varieties which meet customers' aroma and flavour expectations. Innovation is what drives our business: WE INNOVATE FOR YOUR SUCCESS! (www.barthhaasgroup.com/en/about-us/innovation) We leave no stone unturned, no molecule untouched when it comes to understanding the flavour impact of hops in beer. Our research is carried out in well-staffed and equipped innovation centres in Europe (Paddock Wood, UK) and the United States (Yakima, WA).
We breed and analyse new crosses, evaluate the aroma and flavour impact of different varieties and products, measure their utilisation rates, search for optimal processing conditions and also work on many other areas of interest. Cooperation with universities and research institutes is a key element in our endeavour to unlock the full potential of hops (www.barthhaasgroup.com/en/about-us/research).
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It is well known that hops are a prime flavor component in beer, but their remarkably high impact on the final product is often overlooked. The closer one looks at hops, the more revealing their importance to beer becomes. Hops have seemingly inexhaustible potential not only in terms of aroma and bitterness, but also in the other attributes they provide in the brewing process and finished beer.
Understanding the complexities of hops and tapping into their full potential is why we brought the BARTH-HAAS HOPS ACADEMY into being. Having an acute knowledge of the usage, effects, and impact of this special brewing ingredient will help the brewer optimize process efficiencies and develop distinctive high-quality beers. The courses at the BARTH-HAAS HOPS ACADEMY of modular design and use a variety of tools to address a wide range of aspects regarding hops. It is possible to choose either a rough outline of certain topics or specialist courses,. We provide lectures in the field of hop cultivation, hop processing, application in the brewery, analytics, sustainability as well as commercial aspects of hops. The modules can be successively expanded and supplemented as required (www.barthhaasgroup.com/en/about-us/hops-academy).
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The Barth-Haas Group is the world’s largest supplier of hop products and services. The Group is family owned and is active on all continents. It has offices and operations in Germany, the United States, United Kingdom, Australia and China.
The Barth-Haas Group is the world leader in:
Hop production and breeding
Hop processing
Storage and logistics services
R&D and application technologies for the brewing industry and beyond
(www.barthhaasgroup.com/en/about-us)
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Hop breeding has been carried out in Europe since the beginning of the 20th century. The initial incentive was the increased occurrence of fungal diseases, which led not only to fears amongst hop growers for their crops but also amongst brewers for their raw material supplies.
Although this is now more than 100 years ago, hop breeding has lost none of its relevance for the present – in fact, quite the contrary. Resistance to diseases and pests is only one goal of hop breeding nowadays. Increasing the yield and brewing quality play an equally important role. In relation to the latter in particular, it is the compounds i.e. the proportion of different hop oils, which are attracting increasing attention – and not just since the advent of Flavor Hops.
It is therefore all the more important to Joh. Barth & Sohn, not only to actively support hop breeding in Europe but also to keep in close contact with the largely government-run breeding institutions (www.barthhaasgroup.com/en/varieties-and-products/breeding).
Thanks to its comprehensive range of high-quality hop products, the Barth-Haas Group can provide the optimal solution for any application within the brewing process.
Foam enhancement
Bitterness
Light stability
Advanced Hop Product Dilution Protocol
Post-Fermentation Hop Product Addition"
(www.barthhaasgroup.com/en/varieties-and-products/product-application)
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The different hop varieties are characterized by their distinctive hop aroma profile which sets them apart. It is this "spice" from the hops that provides a perfect balance with the malt and other flavour components that defines a beer style. The Barth-Haas Group provides traditional aroma hop products as well as several hop essential oil selections. Also available are the newer and more functional PHA products which add ease-of-use and flexibility to your hop aroma needs (www.barthhaasgroup.com/en/varieties-and-products).
Flavour Hops is a word creation to describe newly planted varieties in the US and Australia that have been bred and planted in hop fields in response to demand from the US craft beer industry and its desire for bold tastes and differentiating flavours.
Because these varieties are designed to impart bold, new and differentiating flavours on beer, they do not easily fit in the classical categorization of "aroma" or "bitter" hops, but rather have become their own new category we described as Flavour Hops. Unlike aroma hops or bitter hops they are neither associated with low or high alpha contents, nor low or high yield. Some Flavour Hops can show good agronomics and can have a high amount of alpha, but these characteristics are not the distinguishing features that set these hops apart.
Flavour is in the eye of the beholder and is something that is difficult to quantify and as result is difficult to compare. The characteristics of Flavour Hops are usually associated with tropical and fruity notes, however, these notes are difficult to capture completely with the analytical methods in use by the hop and beer industry such as HPLC and GC.
Thus it will be difficult to scientifically define the category of Flavour Hops. We believe that aroma hops as well as bitter hops can be considered Flavour Hops. What makes a Flavour Hop a Flavour Hop in beer is the skilled addition of these hops in the brewing process together with the other raw materials in relation to the beer type (www.barthhaasgroup.com/en/varieties-and-products/flavour-hops).
Craft brewers use hops in quantities that are often unimaginable for German tastes. The result in the
USA: American craft brewers required almost as great a quantity of hops from the 2012 crop as the
rest of the brewing industry, which has a market share of 93 per cent. “You might call this a case of
the tail wagging the dog...” (Stephan Barth)
Accordingly, growers who supply the varieties sought by the craft brewers are euphoric, but the vast
majority of growers are uncertain. Barth went on to say that further acreage reduction could be
expected in the future and that if the trend towards more heavily hopped beers continued at the
present rate, this might result in competition in the procurement market, which would eventually
affect the entire hop market.
He pointed out that the dominance of the two main hop‐growing countries, Germany and the USA,
had increased in the past year, and that these countries now accounted for 64 per cent of acreage,
70 per cent of production volume and 78 per cent of alpha acid. As a result, Barth concluded, the
international brewing industry was increasingly dependent on these two supplier countries and on
the growers in the Hallertau and Yakima Valley regions in particular (www.barthhaasgroup.com/images/pdfs/report2013/Press%20Kit%20Barth.pdf).
Joh. Barth & Sohn is Germany’s leading provider of hop‐related services. Joh. Barth & Sohn is part of the Barth‐Haas Group. The group operates on every continent and is made up of family‐owned companies. The Group has around 600 employees worldwide.
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The group is made up of family‐owned companies, with locations in Germany, the United
States, Australia, the United Kingdom and China. A global market presence is thus
guaranteed (www.barthhaasgroup.com/images/pdfs/report2013/Press%20Kit%20Barth.pdf).
Joh. Barth & Sohn GmbH & Co. KG, Nuremberg, was founded in 1794 and has since become the market leader in hop trading and processing in Germany. While the business activities of Joh. Barth & Sohn were originally focused exclusively on hop trading, since the 1960s hop processing has become the company’s second main business field.
Joh. Barth & Sohn GmbH & Co. KG, Nuremberg, was founded in 1794 and has since become the market leader in hop trading and processing in Germany. While the business activities of Joh. Barth & Sohn were originally focused exclusively on hop trading, since the 1960s hop processing has become the company’s second main business field.
Hop Products Australia in Hobart/Tasmania grows and processes hops for the domestic and world markets. The company pursues an intensive research programs concentrating on breeding new aroma and alpha varieties.
Barth-Haas UK Ltd., with one facility in the United Kingdom is the centre of excellence in the group for Hop Oils and Hop Aroma Products. Barth-Haas UK Ltd. also manufactures the full range of advanced products on behalf of the group at its facility.
BetaTec Hopfenprodukte GmbH was founded in Nuremberg in 1997. BetaTec is actively engaged in research and development, with its core competence in hops, and focuses in particular on developing applications for hop products outside the brewing industry. BetaTec is a 100% subsidiary of John I. Haas Inc.
Barth-Haas (Beijing) Trade Co. Ltd. in People's Republic of China. The company, along with Xinjiang Green Diamond Hop Co, Ltd. In Xinjiang and Gansu Tianma Hops Co. Ltd. in Gansu provides hop trading and processing of domestic and imported hops and hop products to the Chinese market.
Simply Hops Ltd.
Companies of different sizes require different approaches. Simply Hops Ltd. allows Joh. Barth and Sohn to respond to the specific needs of smaller breweries and fulfil the additional objective of efficiently supplying such establishments with high-quality hop products. Simply Hops Ltd. thus offers a selection of the renowned Barth product range to smaller consumers – e.g. 5kg pellets.
Orders are carried out through e-commerce and dispatched immediately to the customer.
Barth Innovations Ltd is a centre for innovation, servicing the R&D needs of the European member companies of the Barth-Haas Group, namely, Joh. Barth & Sohn GmbH, in Germany and UK. The goals of Barth Innovations Ltd. are to develop innovative, hop-based products, primarily for the global brewing industry. Improve manufacturing processes within the Group’s companies. Extend application expertise and technical support for the use of our products. Develop an R&D program relevant to the future needs of the Barth-Haas Group. Intensify co-operation with universities and other institutions.
NATECO², based in Wolnzach, began operations in the field of hop extraction in the 1960s. Today, the company is the world's largest manufacturer of hop extracts and natural substances produced using CO& as a solvent. Co-partner with an ownership share of 40% in NATECO² is Hopfenverwertungsgenossenschaft Hallertau (HVG).
The Barth-Haas Group also owns Hopfenveredlung St. Johann GmbH & Co. KG in St. Johann, which has its own research brewery and cold storage facilities equipped with state-of-the-art technology. Hopfenveredlung St. Johann operates the world's largest hop pelletization plant for pellet types 45 and 90. HVG is also a co-partner in Hopfenveredlung St. Johann with an ownership share of 40% (www.barthhaasgroup.com/en/about-us/companies).
Founded in 1794, the Barth-Haas Group today is managed by the 7th and 8th generations of Barth family members. Our thinking spans generations. We are dedicated to our customers by providing reliable service and support in all aspects of hops. We speak your language. From our highly trained sales personnel to our expert logistical staff, we communicate effectively in a vast number of languages (www.barthhaasgroup.com/en/).
Over the years, we have been able to establish strong partnerships on the basis of the individual private companies within the Barth Group which are located around the world. The Barth-Haas Group is a financial sponsor of the European Beer Star and the World Beer Cup, as well as further – both established and up-and-coming – brewing industry events. As such it aims to actively promote the continuity and development of quality and diversity in beer varieties in all their many forms around the world. Furthermore, we have also been awarding grants for innovative hop projects since 2007 (www.barthhaasgroup.com/en/about-us/commitment).
The Barth-Haas Group is the world's largest supplier of hops, hop products and services. The Group is family owned and is active on all continents. With offices in Germany, the United States, Australia, Switzerland, China and the United Kingdom, we are ideally placed to meet the needs of brewers, large and small, wherever they are located.
We are active in all parts of the supply chain from growing to recipe development and beer appreciation. Whether it be breeding or cultivation, quality assurance or the application of high performance hop products, we are there! (www.barthhaasgroup.com/en/about-us/companies)
For more than 200 years, we have been at the forefront of innovation in the hop industry and have thus remained the partner of choice to our customers. We apply the results of our research activities across our supply chain allowing us to create new hop varieties, new products, innovative applications and services for our customers' satisfaction! Our innovation centres (Barth Innovations Ltd., UK and Haas Innovations, USA) are dedicated to unlocking the full potential of hops. Our areas of concentration include:
New hop products
Hop flavour formulations
Development or reformulation of beer recipes
Applications and processes
Our breeding centres in the United States and Australia generate hundreds of crosses every year to create new varieties which meet customers' aroma and flavour expectations. Innovation is what drives our business: WE INNOVATE FOR YOUR SUCCESS! (www.barthhaasgroup.com/en/about-us/innovation) We leave no stone unturned, no molecule untouched when it comes to understanding the flavour impact of hops in beer. Our research is carried out in well-staffed and equipped innovation centres in Europe (Paddock Wood, UK) and the United States (Yakima, WA).
We breed and analyse new crosses, evaluate the aroma and flavour impact of different varieties and products, measure their utilisation rates, search for optimal processing conditions and also work on many other areas of interest. Cooperation with universities and research institutes is a key element in our endeavour to unlock the full potential of hops (www.barthhaasgroup.com/en/about-us/research).
It is well known that hops are a prime flavor component in beer, but their remarkably high impact on the final product is often overlooked. The closer one looks at hops, the more revealing their importance to beer becomes. Hops have seemingly inexhaustible potential not only in terms of aroma and bitterness, but also in the other attributes they provide in the brewing process and finished beer.
Understanding the complexities of hops and tapping into their full potential is why we brought the BARTH-HAAS HOPS ACADEMY into being. Having an acute knowledge of the usage, effects, and impact of this special brewing ingredient will help the brewer optimize process efficiencies and develop distinctive high-quality beers. The courses at the BARTH-HAAS HOPS ACADEMY of modular design and use a variety of tools to address a wide range of aspects regarding hops. It is possible to choose either a rough outline of certain topics or specialist courses,. We provide lectures in the field of hop cultivation, hop processing, application in the brewery, analytics, sustainability as well as commercial aspects of hops. The modules can be successively expanded and supplemented as required (www.barthhaasgroup.com/en/about-us/hops-academy).
The Barth-Haas Group is the world’s largest supplier of hop products and services. The Group is family owned and is active on all continents. It has offices and operations in Germany, the United States, United Kingdom, Australia and China.
The Barth-Haas Group is the world leader in:
Hop production and breeding
Hop processing
Storage and logistics services
R&D and application technologies for the brewing industry and beyond
(www.barthhaasgroup.com/en/about-us)
Hop breeding has been carried out in Europe since the beginning of the 20th century. The initial incentive was the increased occurrence of fungal diseases, which led not only to fears amongst hop growers for their crops but also amongst brewers for their raw material supplies.
Although this is now more than 100 years ago, hop breeding has lost none of its relevance for the present – in fact, quite the contrary. Resistance to diseases and pests is only one goal of hop breeding nowadays. Increasing the yield and brewing quality play an equally important role. In relation to the latter in particular, it is the compounds i.e. the proportion of different hop oils, which are attracting increasing attention – and not just since the advent of Flavor Hops.
It is therefore all the more important to Joh. Barth & Sohn, not only to actively support hop breeding in Europe but also to keep in close contact with the largely government-run breeding institutions (www.barthhaasgroup.com/en/varieties-and-products/breeding).
Foam enhancement
Bitterness
Light stability
Advanced Hop Product Dilution Protocol
Post-Fermentation Hop Product Addition"
(www.barthhaasgroup.com/en/varieties-and-products/product-application)
The different hop varieties are characterized by their distinctive hop aroma profile which sets them apart. It is this "spice" from the hops that provides a perfect balance with the malt and other flavour components that defines a beer style. The Barth-Haas Group provides traditional aroma hop products as well as several hop essential oil selections. Also available are the newer and more functional PHA products which add ease-of-use and flexibility to your hop aroma needs (www.barthhaasgroup.com/en/varieties-and-products).
Flavour Hops is a word creation to describe newly planted varieties in the US and Australia that have been bred and planted in hop fields in response to demand from the US craft beer industry and its desire for bold tastes and differentiating flavours.
Because these varieties are designed to impart bold, new and differentiating flavours on beer, they do not easily fit in the classical categorization of "aroma" or "bitter" hops, but rather have become their own new category we described as Flavour Hops. Unlike aroma hops or bitter hops they are neither associated with low or high alpha contents, nor low or high yield. Some Flavour Hops can show good agronomics and can have a high amount of alpha, but these characteristics are not the distinguishing features that set these hops apart.
Flavour is in the eye of the beholder and is something that is difficult to quantify and as result is difficult to compare. The characteristics of Flavour Hops are usually associated with tropical and fruity notes, however, these notes are difficult to capture completely with the analytical methods in use by the hop and beer industry such as HPLC and GC.
Thus it will be difficult to scientifically define the category of Flavour Hops. We believe that aroma hops as well as bitter hops can be considered Flavour Hops. What makes a Flavour Hop a Flavour Hop in beer is the skilled addition of these hops in the brewing process together with the other raw materials in relation to the beer type (www.barthhaasgroup.com/en/varieties-and-products/flavour-hops).
Craft brewers use hops in quantities that are often unimaginable for German tastes. The result in the
USA: American craft brewers required almost as great a quantity of hops from the 2012 crop as the
rest of the brewing industry, which has a market share of 93 per cent. “You might call this a case of
the tail wagging the dog...” (Stephan Barth)
Accordingly, growers who supply the varieties sought by the craft brewers are euphoric, but the vast
majority of growers are uncertain. Barth went on to say that further acreage reduction could be
expected in the future and that if the trend towards more heavily hopped beers continued at the
present rate, this might result in competition in the procurement market, which would eventually
affect the entire hop market.
He pointed out that the dominance of the two main hop‐growing countries, Germany and the USA,
had increased in the past year, and that these countries now accounted for 64 per cent of acreage,
70 per cent of production volume and 78 per cent of alpha acid. As a result, Barth concluded, the
international brewing industry was increasingly dependent on these two supplier countries and on
the growers in the Hallertau and Yakima Valley regions in particular (www.barthhaasgroup.com/images/pdfs/report2013/Press%20Kit%20Barth.pdf).