Your First Choice for German Hops
Since 1953, HVG has had one goal in mind in its role as the collective marketing organization for hop growers, namely, to supply the brewing industry around the globe with premium hop products from Germany. For breweries, we serve as the direct contact to hop growers in order to ensure complete transparency.
WE ARE THE HOP GROWERS!
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“Hop cultivation has been our family’s passion for ten generations. We value HVG as a competent and trustworthy partner to market our hops.”
Obster Family
Hop Grower Family
“The uncompromising dedication to quality – from cultivation to processing – is what makes German hops so unique in the world.”
Dr. Johann Pichlmaier
CEO
“As a cooperative, HVG stands for quality and diversity in hops as well as reliability in supplying the international brewing industry.”
Adolf Schapfl
Chairman of the Supervisory Board
“Over 1,000 families are working hard to grow the best hops in the world. As a company focused on sales and distribution, it is not only a great pleasure but is very motivating to bring this unparalleled quality to breweries in the far-flung corners of the world.”
Carlos Ruiz
International Sales Manager
Power of Attorney“Hop cultivation has been our family’s passion for ten generations. We value HVG as a competent and trustworthy partner to market our hops.”
Obster Family
Hop Grower Family“The uncompromising dedication to quality – from cultivation to processing – is what makes German hops so unique in the world.”
Dr. Johann Pichlmaier
CEO
OUR PROMISE
We are the hop growers
We guarantee fair and transparent conditions by purchasing hops exclusively from our own members, who are all German hop farmers.
We supply German hops
As the largest hop cooperative in the world, we grew from a regional cooperative of hop producers to a global player in merely a few decades.
We guarantee quality
Every brewer who uses German hops for his/her beers can rely on our exceptional quality standards.
We process and refine German hops
We provide competent consulting from proven hop experts and operate state-of-the-art, efficient processing plants.
We breed hops for growers and brewers
Our declared goal is to breed disease-resistant and climate-tolerant hop varieties with outstanding properties for brewing beer.
WHAT WE OFFER
Our experience and insight as a service provider for our own hop producers as well as for brewers has made HVG one of the most important partners on the market for German hops. Today, breweries from more than 100 countries on every habitable continent purchase German hops directly from hop growers through HVG.
WHOLE HOPS (VacuPack)
PELLETS
(TYPE 90, TYPE 45, Isomerized Pellets)
EXTRACT
(CO2, IKE)
We work closely with the Hop Research Center in Hüll and have established our own breeding program with one of our experienced hop growers, in order to bring sustainable and promising varieties with unique aromas to the market.
“Water of any quality can be created using modern methods of water treatment. Mashing can compensate for certain fluctuations in malt parameters. But there is no such thing with hops. That is why it is so important to work with a professional and responsible supplier like HVG.”
Mikhail Ershov
Brew Master Moscow Brewing CompanyWe work closely with the Hop Research Center in Hüll and have established our own breeding program with one of our experienced hop growers, in order to bring sustainable and promising varieties with unique aromas to the market.
“Water of any quality can be created using modern methods of water treatment. Mashing can compensate for certain fluctuations in malt parameters. But there is no such thing with hops. That is why it is so important to work with a professional and responsible supplier like HVG.”
Mikhail Ershov
Brew Master Moscow Brewing Company
An Early Vision has Finally Become a Reality…
The largest hop extraction plant in the world was completed in St. Johann in 2020. The facility is equipped with state-of-the-art 500 bar high-pressure extractors which allow the production of hop extracts of exceptional quality, in an efficient and sustainable manner.
OUR HISTORY
In Bavarian Wolnzach – in the middle of Hopfenland Hallertau – the HVG, Hopfenverwertungsgenossenschaft e.G. has its seat. The growers from Tettnang and Elbe-Saale have been members of the marketing community established in Hallertau in 1953 since 2001.
In that way, the world’s largest association of hop growers in a cooperative to date have developed. This unique constellation guarantees the supply security of German hops of the highest quality and diversity to the international brewing industry.
Thanks to our growers' experience, the practical research and advice as well as our expertise in hop processing and trading, German hops is successful all over the world.