Comptoir Agricole at the Brau - Nuremberg 2019

Philippe MARIN, Francis HEITZ and Antoine WUCHNER took part in the Brau 2018 from November 12 to 14, 2018.

The turnout this year was exceptional.

Discussions dealt with the hop supply, principally, organic hops, availability of which remains stretched.

Comptoir Agricole wants to expand from 20 hectares to 60 hectares of organic production by 2020/2021, quite a long lead time but necessary to convert from conventional hops to organic hops.

As expected, visitors took the opportunity provided by this event to sample beers brewed using the new BARBE ROUGE and MISTRAL varieties, with moderation as ever.

Highlights:

• ARAMIS Demoiselle
• An IPA with MISTRAL, particularly commented upon by visitors
• An IPA with TRISKEL
• … with late hopped BARBE ROUGE, from the BARBE ROUGE beer selection used for BARBE ROUGE Day

The main attraction this year was “BARBE ROUGE Day”.

An entire day devoted to checking out the BARBE ROUGE variety, brewed differently: late hopping, whirlpooling, dry hopping, oil hopping.

Admittedly, dry hopping got the most attention, closely followed by oil hopping, but it was not unusual to find fans of the last two brews… always a question of taste, we guess!

A big thank you to our many visitors and see you next year… in Nuremberg!

Big turnout

The stand

Francis HEITZ at work

François LOOS (President of Brasseurs de France - French brewers’ association) and Bernard INGWILLER (President of the AGPH - French hop growers association)

Philippe MARTIN deep in discussion

The invitation to BARBE ROUGE Day

Philippe MARTIN and Antoine WUCHNER surrounded by the Brasseurs de France team

Discover BARBE ROUGE

and the winner is ….

Francis HEITZ with his Australian distributors

Come and find out about BARBE ROUGE! …presentation of 4 brews.

Antoine WUCHNER and Mr SEIDL, Pabst Beer, Austria