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As promised, more details on hop growing in the DDR.The fledgling industry got off to a slow start in the early 1950s, but by its final years had grown to a decent size.
It would be interesting to see figures for some later years. Because it looks like a plateau was reached in the 1960s. I must have a look in the later editions of Kunze.
There's a note which says that the harvests of 1956, 1960 and 1961 were badly affected by summer thunderstorms. Which I suppose explains the poor yield in those years. I wonder what happened in 1962? Where the yield was even worse than in 1960.
By the 1960s, had the DDR become self-sufficient in hops? Possibly. Hang on. I have the numbers. I have the quantity of beer brewed and I know what the hopping rates were.
The maximum hopping rates for the most popular styles, Vollbier Hell and Deutsches Pilsner, were 240 gm and 350 gm per hectolitre, respectively.The most heavily hopped style, Deutscher Porter, received a maximum of 650 gm per hectolitre. The average hopping rate couldn't have been more than around 300 gm/hl.
By 1959, the DDR was producing just shy of 100 gm of hops per hectolitre of beer brewed. Which by my calculations was around a third of their requirements. Did they eventually manage to achieve self sufficiency? We'll find out in a later post.
DDR beer and hop production 1951 - 1959
year
hl beer
kg hops
gm/hl
1951
5,739,556
0
0
1952
6,991,555
2,500
0.36
1953
8,390,848
29,500
3.52
1954
10,631,354
98,000
9.22
1955
11,772,064
335,000
28.46
1956
11,073,236
294,000
26.55
1957
12,955,326
691,000
53.34
1958
12,884,952
1,014,000
78.70
1959
13,659,064
1,327,000
97.15
Sources:
Brewers' Almanack 1962, page 54.
Technologie Brauer und Mälzer by Wolfgang Kunze, VEB Fachbuchverlag Leipzig, 2nd edition, 1967, page 43.
Here are the raw hop production figures:
Hop growing in the DDR 1951 - 1965
Year
Area in ha
Production in dt
Production per dt/ha
1951
0
0
1952
6
25
1953
45
295
1954
159
980
1955
444
3,350
1956
687
2,940
4.3
1957
875
6,910
7.9
1958
1,006
10,140
10.1
1959
1,150
13,270
11.6
1960
1,415
12,160
8.6
1961
1,705
9,810
5.8
1962
1,967
14,742
7.5
1963
2,090
26,550
12.7
1964
2,128
26,288
12.3
1965
2,135
20,200
9.4
Source:
Technologie Brauer und Mälzer by Wolfgang Kunze, VEB Fachbuchverlag Leipzig, 2nd edition, 1967, page 43.
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As promised, more details on hop growing in the DDR.The fledgling industry got off to a slow start in the early 1950s, but by its final years had grown to a decent size.
It would be interesting to see figures for some later years. Because it looks like a plateau was reached in the 1960s. I must have a look in the later editions of Kunze.
There's a note which says that the harvests of 1956, 1960 and 1961 were badly affected by summer thunderstorms. Which I suppose explains the poor yield in those years. I wonder what happened in 1962? Where the yield was even worse than in 1960.
By the 1960s, had the DDR become self-sufficient in hops? Possibly. Hang on. I have the numbers. I have the quantity of beer brewed and I know what the hopping rates were.
The maximum hopping rates for the most popular styles, Vollbier Hell and Deutsches Pilsner, were 240 gm and 350 gm per hectolitre, respectively.The most heavily hopped style, Deutscher Porter, received a maximum of 650 gm per hectolitre. The average hopping rate couldn't have been more than around 300 gm/hl.
By 1959, the DDR was producing just shy of 100 gm of hops per hectolitre of beer brewed. Which by my calculations was around a third of their requirements. Did they eventually manage to achieve self sufficiency? We'll find out in a later post.
DDR beer and hop production 1951 - 1959
year
hl beer
kg hops
gm/hl
1951
5,739,556
0
0
1952
6,991,555
2,500
0.36
1953
8,390,848
29,500
3.52
1954
10,631,354
98,000
9.22
1955
11,772,064
335,000
28.46
1956
11,073,236
294,000
26.55
1957
12,955,326
691,000
53.34
1958
12,884,952
1,014,000
78.70
1959
13,659,064
1,327,000
97.15
Sources:
Brewers' Almanack 1962, page 54.
Technologie Brauer und Mälzer by Wolfgang Kunze, VEB Fachbuchverlag Leipzig, 2nd edition, 1967, page 43.
Here are the raw hop production figures:
Hop growing in the DDR 1951 - 1965
Year
Area in ha
Production in dt
Production per dt/ha
1951
0
0
1952
6
25
1953
45
295
1954
159
980
1955
444
3,350
1956
687
2,940
4.3
1957
875
6,910
7.9
1958
1,006
10,140
10.1
1959
1,150
13,270
11.6
1960
1,415
12,160
8.6
1961
1,705
9,810
5.8
1962
1,967
14,742
7.5
1963
2,090
26,550
12.7
1964
2,128
26,288
12.3
1965
2,135
20,200
9.4
Source:
Technologie Brauer und Mälzer by Wolfgang Kunze, VEB Fachbuchverlag Leipzig, 2nd edition, 1967, page 43.
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