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We're back with hops today. With another sexy little table to seduce us, fluttering its eyelids and waggling its arse. Aren't we lucky?

Why am I bothering you with this particular table? Because it straddles WW I and shows the effect of the war on the hop trade. Or lack of effect, in some cases.

The four countries with the biggest share of hop production - Germany, USA, UK and Czechoslovakia - remained at the top of the pile for most of the 20th century. With the exception of Britain, whose hop industry collapsed in the 1980's.

It's a great irony that the country to profit most from the effects of the war, the USA, wasn't brewing any beer at all by the time of the last figures. Presumably it was exports that kept hop growing alive in the US. I can't think of many uses for hops other than in making beer.




Share of world hop production by country


Country
1900/01
1905/06
1910/11
1914/15
1919/20
1920/21


Germany
27.97%
24.56%
25.14%
24.50%
11.94%
13.56%


UK
22.80%
28.60%
18.88%
26.51%
25.47%
25.92%


USA
21.25%
20.39%
25.52%
26.20%
35.27%
32.08%


Czechoslovakia formerly Bohemia
10.01%
11.85%
14.43%
14.41%
11.67%
11.63%


Russia
5.17%
4.05%
3.70%
war zone
-
-


France
4.65%
2.87%
3.45%
2.83%
7.98%
8.69%


Belgium
3.36%
4.33%
3.70%
war zone
1.99%
3.38%


Australia
1.04%
0.60%
0.65%
0.82%
2.90%
2.28%


Other countries
3.75%
2.75%
4.53%
4.73%
2.78%
2.46%


Source:


Barth Hop Report 1914-1915 to 1920-1921



In Britain and Belgium (more surprisingly) Belgium the war appears from this table to have had little effect. But if you look at the acreage under hops and the quantity of hops produced, you can see that this wasn't the case.




Hop production and acreage



1913
1921
1912
1922


Country
ha
ha
zentners
zentners


Germany
27,048
11,279
460,000
173,000


UK
14,449
10,179
375,000
325,000


USA
21,790
11,300
499,000
275,000


Czechoslovakia
15,878
8,640
334,000
109,000


France
2,861
4,214
60,000
86,000


Alsace-Lorraine
4,185
2,665
95,000
61,000


Belgium
2,283
1,500
70,000
27,000


World
101,078
52,955
1,975,000
1,074,000


Sources:


Barth Hop Report 1913-1914


Barth Hop Report 1922-1923



(I've used different years for the production because 1913 and 1921 were both years with a particularly bad harvest.)

In absolute terms, production fell everywhere except France. And the only reason it increased there was because of the transfer of Alsace-Lorraine back to France. Globally hop production was approximately cut in half as a result of WW I.

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