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1 EUR = 1.4216 USD
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Average Market Prices Change trend

September 17, 2008

Type Crop 2007 Crop 2008 Crop 2009
2rs Barley nq EUR171.0-173.0 4.44% EUR193.0-194.0 1.54%
6rw Barley nq EUR161.0-163.0 3.57% EUR172.0-174.0 2.81%
2rs Malt EUR536.5-538.5 EUR409.5-411.5 2.26% EUR424.5-426.5 0.82%
6rw Malt EUR503.5-505.5 EUR396.0-398.0 1.85% EUR400.0-402.0 1.47%
Feed Barley nq EUR145.0-147.0 2.00% nq

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Top Industry News

United States: Results of summer 2008: Bud Light Lime leading, MillerCoors sales mutually exclusive, Corona sales falling for the first time in 16 years ...Click here
Czech Republic: In H1 2008, beer imports grow by a quarter, exports rise by 7.8 per cent, production falls by 0.5 per cent ...Click here
Australia: Coca-Cola enters the Australian beer market with boastful plans for getting over 50 mln litres of beer annually by 2010 ...Click here
Japan: Beer consumption reduced by growing health-consciousness and a gloomy economic outlook ...Click here
United Kingdom & India: In the competition for a stake in India’s United Breweries, Diageo is to struggle with Suntory Group – local sources ...Click here
Turkey & Georgia: The joint venture contract between Efes Breweries and Kazbegi brewery to be delayed owing to the situation in Georgia ...Click here
Romania: Beer consumption forecasted to add 20% by 2012 ...Click here
Australia: Winter barley production forecasted to be around 7.8 mln tonnes in 2008/2009 – higher than in 2007/2008, though below initial estimates ...Click here
United States: The 2008 crop summary provided by the North Dakota Barley Council executive director reveals mixed results ...Click here
EU: Feed barley market resistant to fall, malting barley market inactive and giving up positions ...Click here
Canada: Malting barley prices unchanged in CWB mid-September PRO, the next two weeks critical for the Western Canada crop quality ...Click here
EU: The Czech Republic reports excellent barley crop 2008, Poland and the Netherlands disappointed with the results ...Click here
United States: Idaho hops farmers expect good yields from the increased acreage, craft brewers hope for stabilization of prices ...Click here




Portugal & Angola: Portugal’s Unicer brewery to launch a beer plant in Angola by 2010 ...More Info
United Kingdom: Cobra Beer to attract women by stylish Fresh Ginger ...More Info
Jamaica: Diageo’s Red Stripe brewery reports a 35.2% decline in after-tax profit for FY ended June, 30 ...More Info
Australia: The Western Region Barley Council announces changes to deliveries arrangements of malting barley for 2009 - 2010 ...More Info
Russia: Bear Beer coming back on the Russian beer market ...More Info
Ukraine: Obolon Brewery reports strong growth in August, 2008 ...More Info
United States: The redesigned packaging of Coors Light to signal when beer is ready to drink ...More Info
Canada: Michael Brophy from the CWB named new president and CEO of the Brewing and Malting Barley Research Institute ...More Info
Czech Republic: Demand for canned beer grows though does not replace the traditional glass bottle ...More Info
Latvia: Aldaris brewery will try exporting its production to the west – Chairwoman Inara Sure ...More Info
United States: The redesigned packaging of Coors Light to signal when beer is ready to drink ...More Info
Estonia: Tallin Stock Exchange will stop trading with Saku brewery shares as of September, 16 ...More Info
United Kingdom: SABMiller appoints Chris Taylor to the newly-created position of brands director ...More Info
United States: The Institute of Barley and Malt Sciences aims at being “the barley to beer chain” ...More Info
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Brewery News

United States: Results of summer 2008: Bud Light Lime leading, MillerCoors sales mutually exclusive, Corona sales falling for the first time in 16 years
The results of the U.S. beer industry’s critical summer selling season are as follows: Bud Light Lime won, newly merged Coors and Miller cancelled ...More Info

Czech Republic: In H1 2008, beer imports grow by a quarter, exports rise by 7.8 per cent, production falls by 0.5 per cent
Beer imports to the Czech Republic grew by a quarter year-on-year to almost 0.18 mln hl in the first six months of the year, ...More Info

Australia: Coca-Cola enters the Australian beer market with boastful plans for getting over 50 mln litres of beer annually by 2010

As Coca-Cola Amatil (CCA) is expected to turn the first sod on Australia’s newest brewery on the NSW Central Coast in just two months, its entry in the local beer market underscores the enormous change sweeping through the sector, the Australian Business communicated on September, 12.

The nation’s once almighty brand Victoria Bitter, or VB, remains the clear number one beer but its market share has slipped from just under 30 per cent in 1999 to 19 per cent in 2007 and just over 17 per cent in July 2008, according to Nielsen figures.

While it remains unclear whether its demise will be as swift and complete as that of Foster's, Australia is unlikely to ever see such a dominant brand as VB again, experts believe.

The phenomenon of premiumization is taking hold, and low-carbohydrate beer headed by Pure Blonde and mid-strength brews led by XXXX Gold are continuing to eat away at the market share of the older-school mass-market monsters.

The local beer market some time ago turned into a cosy duopoly between Foster’s and Lion Nathan, but now CCA is trying to enter the competition.

According to experts, however, Coca-Cola's fitful boast that it wanted to be the number three beer maker and ...More Info


Japan: Beer consumption reduced by growing health-consciousness and a gloomy economic outlook
Japan’s breweries have entered a period of tough times for the country’s increasingly health-conscious youth cut back their drinking amid a gloomy economic outlook, ...More Info

United Kingdom & India: In the competition for a stake in India’s United Breweries, Diageo is to struggle with Suntory Group – local sources
As it has been already reported, drinks giant Diageo is holding talks with Vijay Mallya's United Breweries Group about buying a stake in its ...More Info

Turkey & Georgia: The joint venture contract between Efes Breweries and Kazbegi brewery to be delayed owing to the situation in Georgia
Turkey’s Efes Breweries International has decided to delay by six months a legal contract for the formation of a joint venture with Georgia beer ...More Info

Romania: Beer consumption forecasted to add 20% by 2012
Romania’s beer consumption is expected to grow 20% by 2012, the Financiarul posted on September, 16. According to a study by market research company ...More Info

Barley News

Australia: Winter barley production forecasted to be around 7.8 mln tonnes in 2008/2009 – higher than in 2007/2008, though below initial estimates

Winter barley production in 2008-09 is forecasted to reach around 7.8 million tonnes, Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics published in its Australian crop report as of September, 16.

Although this is a significant increase from the 2007-08 production level, it is below initial estimates.

New South Wales

Winter barley production in New South Wales is forecast to increase to just more than 1.5 million tonnes in 2008-09, a significant increase from the 650 000 tonnes produced in the previous season, reflecting an improvement in yields (1.58 t/ha).

The area planted to barley in 2008-09 is estimated to have decreased by 3 per cent to 980,000 hectares.

Victoria

The barley acreage in Victoria is estimated to have increased by 3 per cent in 2008-09, to 950,000 hectares. Assuming an improvement in yields from last year’s drought affected crop, production is forecast to increase by 42 per cent to 1.6 million tonnes in 2008-09.

Queensland

Although the area planted to barley is estimated to have increased by 12 per cent in 2008-09, a decline in yields is likely to result in slightly lower barley production. Barley yields in Queensland are forecast at1.58 tonnes a hectare in 2008-09, compared with 1.80 tonnes a hectare in 2007-08. Total barley production ...More Info


United States: The 2008 crop summary provided by the North Dakota Barley Council executive director reveals mixed results
Both feed and malting barley spot cash prices showed mixed trends during the first two weeks of September, Farm & Ranch Guide reported on ...More Info

EU: Feed barley market resistant to fall, malting barley market inactive and giving up positions
Like in the previous weeks, the EU’s feed barley market demonstrates more resistance to fall than that of wheat and maize, the French La ...More Info

Canada: Malting barley prices unchanged in CWB mid-September PRO, the next two weeks critical for the Western Canada crop quality
The latest mid-month pool return outlook for 2008-09 malting barley issued by the Canadian Wheat Board has not changed from the August outlook, the ...More Info

EU: The Czech Republic reports excellent barley crop 2008, Poland and the Netherlands disappointed with the results
At the beginning of the month, the Netherlands reported disappointing results from the North of the country, imports needs were estimated at 300,000 tons.

Poland ...More Info

Hops News

United States: Idaho hops farmers expect good yields from the increased acreage, craft brewers hope for stabilization of prices

Idaho is one of the few states that produce hops, the Idaho Statesman published on September, 15. But for the first time in more than a decade, new hop trellises were built in the region this spring and hop acreage statewide was increased by about 30 per cent – from 2,996 acres in 2007 to 3,885 in 2008, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates.

Meanwhile, farmers in Washington, the largest hop producing state, added an estimated 8,000 new acres of hop fields this year to take advantage of higher prices.

The industry was hit by the crisis in 2006, when worldwide hop production reached a historic low of about 113,000 acres. The major hop shortage of 2007 was the result of a series of events including bad weather in Europe, a fire at a large hop warehouse in Washington state, an increased demand in Europe and emerging markets like China, experts say,

Hops that had been selling for about $6 a pound now cost $20 or more for brewers who haven't contracted for a lower set price.

Since 2006, about 20,000 new acres of hop varieties have been planted worldwide, but prices remain high, said Ralph Olson, owner of Hop Union, a ...More Info

Scientific Digest

Variation in Malting Quality and Heat Resistance in the Malting Barley Variety "Alexis"

Birthe Møller, Jose Luis Molina-Cano and Lars Munck

Abstract

J. Inst. Brew. 108(3), 294–302, 2002 In earlier studies concerning vigour, where subsamples are heattreated before germination there was found heat-sensitive as well as heat-resistant barley samples. The vigour model developed by Ellis and Roberts and further developed at Carlsberg, could only describe the heat-sensitive barleys. Seventeen samples of the “Alexis” variety grown widely in Europe were collected from the EBC trials in 1994 in order to see if heat resistance in barley was influenced by different growing conditions. We found both heat-sensitive samples following the vigour model as well as pronounced heat-resistant samples, but these were not divided according to growing conditions. The germination curves dependent on heat treatment and germination time were evaluated by Principal Component Analysis (PCA). Heat-resistant barley samples could be differentiated from heat-sensitive samples already after ½ h of heat treatment at 68°C (12% moisture) and after 3 days of germination. The barley samples were analysed with regard to malting quality. The PCA evaluation of the data divided the samples according to growing location, mainly due to differences in protein and -glucan. However, the malting analyses could not describe the differences in heat resistance and sensitivity of the barleys. The biochemical background of the heat resistance found is discussed on the basis of literature. Our findings should give an experimental basis for exploiting a biochemical principle for heat resistance, which is formed during grain filling and consumed during storage and germination. Key words: Heat resistance, malting barley quality, principal component analysis, vigour. Load full article, 9 pages, 278 Kb, PDF file

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* - 70/30 = 70% Average two Rows Spring and 30% Six Rows Winter
** - 50/50 = 50% Average two Rows Spring and 50% Six Rows Winter

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