I’m only certain about the last two entries in the table. They’re definitely Hallertau. A could stand for Auscha, a hop-growing region in Czechoslovakia. In which case they would be something akin to Saaz. By this point, of course, Czechoslovakia was also occupied by the Hermans. As for Bacha, I’ve absolutely no clue.
Before the war, Heineken seemed to use mostly German hops which meant little changed after the outbreak of war. It would have been a different matter had they been accustomed to employing English or American hops.
| Heineken (Rotterdam) hops in 1940 | ||||
| Date | Beer | Style | hop 1 | hop 2 |
| 14th Nov | Do | Donker Lagerbier | Be LA 1939 | Bacha 1939 |
| 8th Nov | Li | Licht Lagerbier | ?? 1939 | Bacha 1939 |
| 8th Nov | P | Pils | A 1938 | A 1939 |
| 8th Nov | Bei | Münchener | H 1939 | |
| 10th Jul | Bok | Bok | Barth Ha 1939 | |
| Source: | ||||
| Heineken brewing record held at the Amsterdamse Stadsarchief, document number 834 - 1759. | ||||
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Bacha could stand for Backa, the german name in the 1930er for the hop region in Vojvodina. It has its own hop sorts, the so called "Backa Hopfen"
Think the "LA" on 14th Nov is the brewers poor handwriting. Also hop 1 for Li. I would go for "Sa" as it looks like for 183 and 187 when another brewer wrote the logs. So it's maybe Saazer.
I am pretty firmly convinced that large swaths of the recorded history of recent generations will be lost forever due to the pernicious influence of cursive writing.
Advanced AI will be able to drive flying cars and predict the weather to an accuracy of a 100 yard radius in 10 minute intervals. But it will be helpless in reading love letters of famous authors, old brewing records or the recipe cards of grandmothers from 1952.
Chris,
interesting about Backa. Do you know what that variety is like?
Saazer would make sense. It's hard to read some of the handwriting at all.
Backa is on the group of aroma hops. Some say the genetics are near the original Saazer. But the hop oil composition is the one of the Hallertau Mittelfrüh. As the hop prices hat fallen dramatically, they coundn't sell the backa hop in Vojvodina. So they brought it to Nuremberg in order to sell the hop there. Guess one of the reasons the backa finally came to Heineken.
As the origin isn't clear, one of backa's parents could also be an old hop variety from Vojvodina
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