NürnbergMesse reports that some 32,000 trade visitors were apparently very satisfied with the new opening days of Brau Beviale— now Tuesday to Thursday—and the extensive range of products from the 1,284 exhibitors (2011: 1,384). The three-day event concludes today.
“The sector is full of optimism – according to the headline of an article on Brau Beviale in the daily press. I couldn’t sum up the exhibition any better. Forecasts promise a growing worldwide demand; reason enough for a good mood in the beverage industry – on the exhibition stands, at the European MicroBrew Symposium and, of course, at the Winners’ Night of the European Beer Star Award,” says Rolf Keller, Member of the Management Board of NürnbergMesse, summing up his impressions.
38 percent of the approximately 32,000 visitors (2011: 36 percent) traveled from abroad, mainly from the Netherlands, Switzerland, Belgium, Italy, the Czech Republic, Austria, France, Russia, Spain, Great Britain and other countries of Central Eastern and Eastern Europe. An unbelievable 97 percent of the experts were satisfied with the products at the exhibition again this time, as shown by the result of a survey by an independent institute.
The suppliers of beverage raw materials, technologies, marketing products and logistics, 44 percent of them international, were delighted with the extremely lively interest of the highly qualified specialists, of whom 90 percent are involved in investment decisions in their companies. The exhibitors came from 50 nations, headed by companies from Germany (a good 700), Italy, Great Britain, the Czech Republic, Austria, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Belgium.
More than 100 managing directors, technical managers and master brewers from European microbreweries and pub breweries and supply industry representatives from 17 nations met the day before BrauBeviale. On 12/13 November NürnbergMesse and Versuchs- und Lehranstalt für Brauerei (VLB – Brewery Research and Training Institute) of Berlin organized the first “European MicroBrew Symposium – Market, Trends and Technology”. The one-and-a-half-day symposium dealt with the trend to craft-brewed beers with presentations on the international market, special raw materials, taste, sustainability and the brewing process, plus an excursion. Due to its great success, the symposium will take place annually in Nürnberg in future.
More than 100 experts judged the 1,366 beers from all continents entered for Europe’s biggest beer competition. The judging took place in 50 categories before the exhibition. The 50 best beers in the world—the gold medal winners—were tested by several thousand visitors on the first day of the exhibition to choose their Consumers’ Favourite 2012: Gold for “Double Jack” (Imperial India Pale Ale), Firestone Walker Brewery Paso Robles (USA), Silver for “Schimpf Hefe Hell” (Light Wheat Beer), Kronenbrauerei Alfred Schimpf Neustetten (GER), Bronze for “Weiherer Rauch” (Smoked Beer), Brauerei-Gasthof Kundmüller Viereth-Trunstadt (GER).
Brau Beviale takes a scheduled break next year and returns with a number of changes from Nov. 11 to 13, 2014.
