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Tim MATTHEWS - Oskar Blues - Colorado USA in contact with Alsatian hop farmers

During his recent Alsatian tour, in addition to visits to several hop growers, Tim MATTHEWS (Head of Brewing Operations at the Oskar Blues brewing Company) participated in a roundtable [...]

Urban Chestnut Brewing Co - St Louis Mo celebrated the French hops with the Hopfenfest on Sat. April 5, 2014. The festival took place for the first time at Urban Chestnuts’ new brewery located i [...]

Triskel and Aramis

The original goal of the Alsatian hop breeding program was to develop a hop with higher and more consistent alpha acids than Strisselspalt, yet having the same bittering and aroma [...]

Comptoir Agricole attends the CBC 2014

The CBC version 2014 (CCraftbrewers Conference) took place in April in DENVER - CO USA. Francis HEITZ, Valley PEACKOCK and Antoine WUCHNER presented the novelty Barbe Rouge, recognizable by its [...]

Comptoir Agricole attended the MBAA 2013

Comptoir-Agricole has attended the annual meeting of the MBAA (Master Brewers Association of the Americas) in Austin (Texas) from October 23 to 26, 2013.       During this conference Fr [...]

Comptoir Agricole (hops from Alsace) attends the CBC 2013

Comptoir Agricole attended the Craft Brewers Conference in Washington DC from 26 to 29 March 2013.       Francis HEITZ and Antoine WUCHNER were able to promote the new aroma  hops Aramis, Str [...]

Organic hops: ready to deliver

After 3 long years of development and research, the Comptoir Agricole is finally able to supply the first Organic hops grown in France. 6 varieties that are intended to meet the widest possible [...]

An exceptional hops harvest in 2012!

For hop growers, September is an especially busy month. Having carefully managed the hop plots since the month of March, it is time to harvest the aroma-giving cones. The hop vines are [...]

Aramis the new aroma hop from Alsace, first results

The breeding program started 10 years ago aiming, among other things, to create a new variety with a similar aroma profile and polyphenol properties to Strisselspalt but with increased and [...]