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On Thursday 21st of August hop harvest 2025 at TOP HOP GROUP has begun. The first farms that started harvesting were CHMEL PODLESÍ and Petrohradská.

Last week we had the honour to welcome representatives of the Japanese brewery Suntory, who came for garden checking just before the harvest begun. Apart from hop gardens, we also visited production facilities of PREOL in Lovosice.

Like every year, the hop growing community celebrated St. Lawrence day on August 8th in Kounov. We did not miss the chance to take part in this traditional event.

TOP HOP GROUP would like to invite you to the trade fair drinktec 2025, which takes place between 15th and 19th of September 2025 in exhibition centre Messe München, Germany.

At the end of this year’s hops processing season, most of TOP HOP and V.F. Humulus teams set out for a joint teambuilding that took place in the legendary Budweiser Budvar, the last remaining Czech national brewery. And it wasn’t just an ordinary brewery visit – we received a full brewery tour that turned out to be a 5-hour experience full of new insights, flavours and inspiration.

Central institute for supervising and testing in agriculture (ÚKZÚZ) published the current hop acreage for upcoming season 2025.

Last week, we were delighted to welcome representatives of Sapporo Breweries, our very close partner, who arrived for a General Meeting of V.F. Humulus. Apart from the board meeting, our guests also paid a visit to Cinke gardens in Žatec, the place where we cultivate new hop plants.

We had the honour to welcome yet another international delegation of brewers from USA, Canada and Australia, alongside Agricultural Diplomat Filip Lameš from Embassy in Ottawa and Milan Vagner, Economy and Trade counsellor from Embassy in Canberra.

In April we welcomed a group of students from Czech University of Life Sciences, department of Agroecology and Crop Production, who are the participants of the course “Hop growing” at, currently the only of it’s kind in the country.

Between 7th and 10th of April 2025 we travelled to Armenia in order to visit craft and industrial breweries and represent TOP HOP during a trade mission organised by the Ministry of Agriculture of the Czech Republic and Czech Embassy in Yerevan.