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Probably the most interesting clock in Prague. Bohemia taught the world alot about brewing: now it seems the world is returning the compliment. On the simple wooden shelves of Pivkupectví, the bottle shop attached to one of Prague’s leading specialist beer pubs, Zlý Časy (Wicked Times), you’ll find an impressive range of serious craft beers from Belgium, France, Germany, [...] 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. [...] |
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