台湾啤酒酿造业每年需进口20万公斤啤酒花,台中区农业改良场副研究员林天枝等人,为解决啤酒花进口支出巨额外汇的问题,研究啤酒花在台湾栽培的可能性与发展潜力。林的试验证实,引进的啤酒花品种Saatzer,在台湾地区栽培,一年可开花结果二次,每10公亩(1.5市亩)球果产量春作98.4 Taiwan’s brewing industry needs to import 200,000 kilograms of hops each year. Lin Tianzhi, an associate researcher at Taichung Agricultural Improvement Field, et al., Has studied the possibility of hops growing in Taiwan and their potential for development in order to solve the problem of huge foreign exchange expenditures on imported hops. Lin’s experiment confirmed that the introduction of the hop variety Saatzer, cultivated in Taiwan, can flowering fruit two times a year, per 10 acres (1.5 city acres) of conch yield 98.4