Post by Bonobo on Feb 12, 2017 14:36:07 GMT 1
Pole named France’s best brewer
11.02.2017 15:15
Polish IT engineer Jacek Korczak has won the French Agriculture Ministry's top award for his achievements in brewing.
Together with his French wife Anne, also an IT engineer, Korczak runs a brewery in the small locality of Mattenheim, near Strasbourg, which annually produces 70, 000 litres of Matten brand beer.
Korczak told Polish Radio that he took up brewing six years ago when he became fed up with the IT sector, adding that his recipe for success is straightforward. “Brewing has to be your passion, other than that you have to read a lot and talk to people. Then it’s all very simple”, he said.
The French ministry’s Prix d’Excellence is awarded in 34 categories covering a wide range of food and alcohol production.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_in_Poland
According to a 2009 Ernst & Young report, Poland is Europe's third largest beer producer. Poland produces 36.9 million hectolitres, coming after the UK with 49.5 million hl and Germany with 103 million hl.[1]
Following consecutive growth in the home market, Związek Pracodawców Przemysłu Piwowarskiego (the Union of the Brewing Industry Employers in Poland), which represents approximately 90% of the Polish beer market, announced during its annual brewing industry conference that consumption of beer in 2008 rose to 94 litres per capita, or 35,624 million hectolitres sold on the domestic market. Statistically, a Polish consumer drinks some 92 litres of beer a year, which places it third behind the Czech Republic and Germany.[2]
In 2009, beer sales paid some PLN 3.097 bn in excise taxes to the Polish government. Total employment due to beer production and sales is 207,900.[3]
11.02.2017 15:15
Polish IT engineer Jacek Korczak has won the French Agriculture Ministry's top award for his achievements in brewing.
Together with his French wife Anne, also an IT engineer, Korczak runs a brewery in the small locality of Mattenheim, near Strasbourg, which annually produces 70, 000 litres of Matten brand beer.
Korczak told Polish Radio that he took up brewing six years ago when he became fed up with the IT sector, adding that his recipe for success is straightforward. “Brewing has to be your passion, other than that you have to read a lot and talk to people. Then it’s all very simple”, he said.
The French ministry’s Prix d’Excellence is awarded in 34 categories covering a wide range of food and alcohol production.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_in_Poland
According to a 2009 Ernst & Young report, Poland is Europe's third largest beer producer. Poland produces 36.9 million hectolitres, coming after the UK with 49.5 million hl and Germany with 103 million hl.[1]
Following consecutive growth in the home market, Związek Pracodawców Przemysłu Piwowarskiego (the Union of the Brewing Industry Employers in Poland), which represents approximately 90% of the Polish beer market, announced during its annual brewing industry conference that consumption of beer in 2008 rose to 94 litres per capita, or 35,624 million hectolitres sold on the domestic market. Statistically, a Polish consumer drinks some 92 litres of beer a year, which places it third behind the Czech Republic and Germany.[2]
In 2009, beer sales paid some PLN 3.097 bn in excise taxes to the Polish government. Total employment due to beer production and sales is 207,900.[3]