Dr Axel Goehler, the CEO of Bestmalz joins us to debate the state of German malting, European Craft Brewing and the latest BRAU 2023 convention.
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Matters in This Week’s Episode (53:49)
- This week I welcome again Dr Axel Goehler, the CEO of Bestmalz in Germany. Dr Goehler did his PhD in Switzerland on German household breweries, and labored at Boston Consulting group for 10 years. He’s the grandson of the founding father of Bestmalz, Max Goehler, and has spearheaded the corporate’s worldwide enlargement since 2014 to over 85 international locations.
- We begin with a quick dialogue of the final 12 months together with among the challenges we mentioned again in episode #267 with malting in Europe.
- Axel explains challenges together with the excessive worth of pure fuel and plans for Germany to transition quickly to a internet zero vitality place.
- We speak concerning the troublesome 2023 barley crop in Germany and France which was dry on the unsuitable instances and moist when harvesting making a scarcity this 12 months.
- Axel describes the state of German Brewing which has challenges from declining demand for beer as an entire.
- We discuss how the EU and several other international locations are working to ban glyphosate which is a broadly used weed killer. Whereas the EU lately authorised an extension for its use, different international locations are banning it which makes supplying barley a problem.
- Axel covers some challenges with decreasing CO2 footprints and we additionally focus on his latest journey to the 2023 BRAU convention.
- Axel offers us his closing ideas on malting.
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