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Hopsteiner (Simon H. Steiner Hopfen)
Hopsteiner (New York NY; Mainburg Bavaria Germany; formally S.S. Steiner, Inc. / Simon H. Steiner Hopfen GmbH; private; ~180 years old) is the world's #2 hops trading company and one of the oldest family-owned agribusinesses in the world. Hopsteiner sources and trades hops from Germany (Hallertau primary supply), US (Yakima Valley, Willamette Valley), Czech Republic, Slovenia, and global growing regions. Hopsteiner's Mainburg Germany facility is in the heart of the Hallertau hop growing region — the world's largest continuous hop growing area. Hopsteiner operates its own hop breeding program — developing proprietary varieties including Callista, Herkules, and Hull Melon for the brewing industry. The company's New York US headquarters serves North American craft brewery customers; its German operations serve European and global brewers.
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Hop Trading (Commodity)
55%Hop Products (Extracts & Processed)
30%Proprietary Varieties & Breeding
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Did you know2024
Hopsteiner's pharmaceutical segment produces valerian and hop combination products for sleep aid formulations — the same hop cones (Humulus lupulus strobiles) used to bitter beer contain sedative compounds (methylbutenol, 2-methyl-3-buten-2-ol — a secondary product of humulone degradation) that have been used in European folk medicine for sleep promotion since medieval times. Hopsteiner supplies hop extract to OTC pharmaceutical manufacturers in Europe who sell valerian/hop sleep aids in pharmacies. This means Hopsteiner simultaneously supplies the bittering agent in a craft IPA AND the sedative active ingredient in a European sleep aid tablet. The brewing supply chain and the OTC pharmaceutical supply chain converge at a Bavarian family hop trading company that has operated since 1845. European regulators (EMA Committee on Herbal Medicinal Products) recognize hop strobile as a traditional herbal medicine for sleep disturbances — the same herb Hopsteiner trades for brewing purposes.
Simon H. Steiner Hopfen GmbH ↗Origin2023
Simon H. Steiner Hopfen (Hopsteiner) traces its origins to the 1845 founding of a hop trading business in Bavaria — placing its founding during the same 19th-century expansion of Bavarian brewing that produced both the German beer purity law tradition and the first modern industrial hop trading. The Steiner family has operated hop trading from Mainburg in the Hallertau for 180 years. Hopsteiner's New York US headquarters (established as S.S. Steiner Inc.) was one of the first European hop trading firms to systematically develop the US Yakima Valley hop market in the early 20th century — essentially helping establish the Pacific Northwest as a commercial hop growing region. Hopsteiner's dual German-American structure reflects the fact that the two largest hop growing regions in the world (Germany's Hallertau and the US Pacific Northwest) are served by the same two major private family trading houses (BarthHaas and Hopsteiner) that have competed for 180 years.
Simon H. Steiner Hopfen GmbH / S.S. Steiner Inc. ↗