
New Year’s Reception of the BCI in Cologne
On 26.1.2023 the BCI in Klön invited to a New Year’s reception in the Wappensaal of the Brauhaus FRÜH. Our notable president Pia Kollmar and our notable friend Larsen Lüngen welcomed some notable members from the region NRW & Rheinland Pfalz as well as some guests around the topic beer and BCI…

Second newsletter sponsor:
Father and son of SAHM GmbH
SAHM GmbH & Co. KG is one of the world’s leading suppliers of glasses for the beverage industry. Cologne-born Wilfried Geissler-Sahm, who has spent much…

Interesting start of the year of the BCI-BaWü Chapter at the Biersomeliere Vannes Pantodis in Ludwigsburg.
On Monday evening, experienced beer drinkers from the ranks of the BCI and interested no less experienced, met for our first event in 2023 in the Bierothek and Tasting Location #hoparoundtheworld25. We started with an…

Mourning of our BCI – Honorary MemberProf. em. Ludwig Narziß
Prof. Dr. Ludwig Narziß was a fascinating man and a brilliant rhetorician.
a brilliant rhetorician. He was also able to listen with great intensity. The
made him so likeable (here at the age of 94, in conversation with Stanislav “Standa” Prochàzka, at the International…

Book review “The Malt Queen
by Heike Bauer-Banzhaf
The company of our fourth newsletter sponsor Sabine Weyermann is world-famous. With her commissioned book “The Malt Queen” about the eventful history of her family, she now also offers a very private insight into the world of the “Weyerleute” – the world of the “Weyermänninnen” – which is strongly influenced by women…

Company portrait – Brewing engineer and Upper Franconian “Queen of Specialty Malts
Sabine Weyermann is managing partner of Weyermann® Malz from Bamberg in Bavaria. In the 36 years of her…

about beer: Interview with Hans Bauer
Dr. Hans Bauer, born in 1938 in Neunkirchen, Germany, is one of the BCI’s original members. He was enthroned in Munich in 1971. For more than 25 years, he was the BCI’s regional consul for Saarland and Rhineland-Palatinate…

Ur leiwand!
Ur leiwand! Our highlights of the 104th International BCI Friendship Meeting in Vienna in pictures

Autumn Baroque in Ludwigsburg
Christan Köhle, a dedicated Ludwigsburg resident, had worked out something very special for the BCI’s fall trip: The participants from Germany, Austria and Switzerland were transported to the time of the 18th century!

Lunch Meeting at Konishi Brewery
For more than two years, the BCI Japan chapter had only held a few “online beer parties,” but of course that wasn’t quite the same as meeting in person. Shinuemon Konishi, a highly deserving member of BierConvent International since 1997, therefore invited our chapters to visit his Konishi Brewery in Itami City at the end of October…

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One would be happy if the air were as pure as the beer. Richard von Weizsäcker (1920-2015), former German President

Of dwarfs and giants –
the world beer market
There is a small glimmer of hope on the world beer market: even though not as much beer was produced as before the Corona pandemic, global beer output rose by around 4 percent to 1.86 billion hectoliters in 2021…
THE BCI
THE IDEA OF THE BIERCONVENTINTERNATIONAL E.V.
Of all the drinks in the world, none is as widespread in all countries and on all continents as beer. In the course of thousands of years, beer – probably the…
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