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Great British Beer Festival 2011, Top Tastings 2011 ABV: 5% Broumov Opat Kvasničák Pepper The Broumov brewery, by the Polish border, claims a history back to 1348, when the townspeople were first granted rights to brew, although the current plant dates from 1866. The local monastery also brewed, and after World [...] European Beer Bloggers Conference 2011, Top Tastings 2011 ABV: 4.4% Plzeňský Prazdroj's head brewer Václav Berka serves up his Kvasnicový at the European Beer Bloggers Conference, London, May 2011. Pic: Reuben Gray, www.taleofale.com The second word in the name of this famous Bohemian brewery — Plzeňský Prazdroj in Czech, Pilsner Urquell in [...] Pivovar Restaurant Hotel Modrá Hvězda Top Tastings 2010 ABV: 4.5% Mash tuns were fired again in Dobřany, once an important brewing town a little south of Plzeň, in 1998 when the ‘Blue Star’ hotel sprouted one of the first of a new generation of microbreweries that have since done much to revitalise beer culture in [...] Beer sellers: Zlý Časy / Pivkupectví ABV: 5% Bernard Sváteční Ležák The Bernard brewery, in the hill country between Bohemia and Moravia, traces its history to 1597 but its current reputation is strictly post-Velvet Revolution. In 1991 a team led by Stanislav Bernard bought the small, neglected and bankrupt brewery at [...] Beer sellers: Zlý Časy / Pivkupectví ABV: 4.2% Chodovar Zámecké Černé Incorporating ancient cellars cut into granite and completely dominating its small village home west of Plzeň, the Chodovar brewery traces its written records back to 1634, though much of today’s structure is the result of an 1862 rebuild. It’s host to [...] Beer sellers: Zlý Časy / Pivkupectví ABV: 6.6% Kocour Weizenbock Another new Czech micro brewing internationally inspired craft beers alongside interpretations of indigenous lager styles, Kocour — ‘Tomcat’ — was founded by Josef Šusta and Honza Kočka in 2008 in Varnsdorf, in the far west of the country right by the German border. Honza [...] Beer sellers: Zlý Časy / Pivkupectví ABV: 6.2% One of a small but growing number of innovative new microbreweries challenging the dominance of straightforward pale and dark lagers in the Czech Republic, Pivovar Matuška was founded only in 2009 but has already caused ripples internationally with its eclectic range of [...] Beer sellers: Zlý Časy / Pivkupectví ABV: 5.2%
Poličské Záviš světlý ležák 12° This intriguing brewery in the birthplace of composer Bohuslav Martinů traces its history back to 1517 when it was founded by a cooperative of townspeople, thus its full title Měšťanský pivovar v Poličce, ‘Polička town brewery’. [...] Beer sellers: Zlý Časy / Pivkupectví ABV: 7.5% Vyškov Jubiler In the historic town of the same name in a rural part of southern Moravia once populated by German-speaking farmers, the Vyškov brewery was founded in 1680 by the bishop of Olomouc, remaining in church hands until well into the 19th century. [...] Beer sellers: Beers of Europe ABV: 4.7% Budějovický Budvar tmavý ležák / Dark Lager Alongside Plzeňský Prazdroj (Pilsner Urquell), Budvar was already a famous Czech name in international beer circles before the Velvet Revolution, thanks in part to the international currency of the term Budweiser — meaning ‘from Budweis’, the [...] |
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