The aim of the workshop, as the name of the event suggests, is to create a space where people who know something about their fields and for whom the exchange of experience and knowledge with colleagues from the same or related fields is important and beneficial can discuss with each other.
In total, about 50 participants gathered at the Červený vlk brewery and together they created a friendly working atmosphere, to which four invited speakers contributed with their lectures, which this year were:
Mgr. Jana Zajíčková, castellan of the state castle Stekník
Ing. Tomáš Slunečko, Executive Director of the Czech Association of Breweries and Maltings
Ing. Jan Nevelös, Technical Sales Manager for Eastern Europe of Lallemand
Ing. Luboš Kastner, leader of BC21, a company focused on consulting and projects in gastronomy, retail and development and partner of the gastronomy group H5.
All the presentations were very topical and touched upon issues that were close to all participants and that clearly belong in such a forum.
To make it clear that this was not just a working meeting, the speakers’ presentations were regularly interspersed with tastings of beers, hopped with different varieties and in different ways and brewed for this workshop by the Hop Institute. In total, there were three tasting windows, followed by an evaluation, professionally commented by Ing. Nesvadba from the Institute.
The official part of the workshop was followed by an unofficial, but no less important, part, in which serious and non-serious matters were discussed in a passionate way, supported by great beers from Červený vlk Brewery.
We can only thank the team of the Červený vlk Brewery for the excellent facilities, great lunch and overall service, the organizers for the organization and wish that the next years will be successful.