World: Worldwide grain consumption forecast unchanged or even higher this season

Climatic conditions had helped to produce record crops of grains and oilseeds in most parts of the world in 2016/17; but weather conditions turned around during the crop year 2017/18, ...
Published 20/08/2017 Di più

Scandinavia: Spring barley planting estimates lower in Finland and Denmark, unchanged in Sweden this year

Planting estimates of spring barley for Finland are 439,000 ha (486,000 ha last year), Denmark 541,000 ha (590,000 ha), Sweden 300,000 ha (unchanged), H. M. Gauger GmbH reported earlier in ...
Published 20/08/2017 Di più

UK: Barley harvest slowed down by rainfall, experts concerned by final outcome

Weather conditions have not been ideal, although rather typical for Northern Europe. In the UK, the barley harvest has started, but is slowed down time and again by rainfall, H. ...
Published 20/08/2017 Di più

USA: Craft beer industry as a whole still looks healthy

There might be a lot of things to cast aspersions on millennials about, but killing the beer industry doesn't seem to be one of them. Despite a recent Goldman Sachs ...
Published 20/08/2017 Di più

USA, VA: Ober Brewing Company to open in Salem by the end of the year

Thanks to a city ordinance change, Ober Brewing Company's first small-scale brewery is setting up shop in Salem's historically industrial areas, WSLS reported on August 18. "It's hard to find the ...
Published 20/08/2017 Di più

USA, MI: Arcadia Brewing Co. to close brewery in downtown Battle Creek, restart sometime in 2018

Arcadia Brewing Co. plans to close its 21-year-old brewery in downtown Battle Creek on Sept. 2, find a new space, and restart sometime in 2018, MLive.com reported on August 18. "We ...
Published 20/08/2017 Di più

USA, CT: Five breweries added in Connecticut in 2017

Connecticut added 14 breweries to its budding craft beer industry in 2016, bringing the total number of operating breweries to 49 by year's end, according to the latest data from ...
Published 20/08/2017 Di più

UK: Competition watchdog approves Heineken’s acquisition of Punch Taverns' British pubs

British competition watchdog CMA approved Heineken's acquisition of Punch Taverns' British pubs. The Dutch brewer made sufficient concessions to remove competition concerns, the CMA decided, ANP reported on August 18. The ...
Published 17/08/2017 Di più

Ukraine: Barley harvest totals 8.6 mln tonnes this year

Ukraine has started its 2017 maize harvest, threshing the first tonnes of the grain with an average yield of 4.0 tonne, the agriculture ministry said on August 18. The ministry has ...
Published 17/08/2017 Di più

Latvia: First-half beer output up 12% versus last year

During the first six months of 2017 Latvian breweries produced 45.995 million litres of beer, which was 12.04% more than in the same period last year, writes LETA, according to ...
Published 17/08/2017 Di più