Czech beer

Czech beer

Czech beer, beer brewed in the Czech Republic, has a long and important history. A brewery is known to have existed in 1118, the city Brno had a right to brew beer from the 12th century, and the two cities most associated with Czech beer, Plzeň and České Budějovice (Pilsen and Budweis in German), certainly had breweries in the 13th century.Fact|date=June 2007

Hops have been grown in the region for a long time, and were used in beer making and exported from here since the twelfth century. The Czech Republic has the highest beer consumption per capita in the world.

History

In 1842 a brewery in Plzeň employed Josef Groll, a German brewer who was experienced in the new cold fermentation lager method. Their beer at the time was not of very good quality and they needed to compete. Groll developed a golden Pilsner beer, the first light coloured beer ever brewed. It became an immediate success, and was exported all over the Austrian Empire. A special train of beer traveled from Plzeň to Vienna every morning. Exports of Czech beer reached Paris and the U.S. by 1874.

Pilsner

started operation in 1876 and their first trademark registration is from 16 July 1878 (made by C. Conrad as "Budweiser Lager Bier" and transferred to the company on 27 January 1891). In 1911 an agreement was settled that Anheuser-Busch may use the "Budweiser" name in North America and in 1939 it was banned to use "Budweiser" by Czech breweries there. Nowadays, Anheuser-Busch is trying to extend this to the rest of the world by various lawsuits.

Reinheitsgebot

The German Reinheitsgebot was imposed when under German rule, and has been retained. Communism meant that the breweries, while nationalised, were not given funds for modernisation, so traditional methods were retained. Since the reintroduction of a full market economy, however, production methods of most mainstream Czech beers have been altered to take advantage of new technology. Lagering times have been, on the most part, reduced, and the quality of the final product is increasingly being questioned. Some Czech breweries have even begun to allow their trademark beers to be brewed abroad in Poland, Russia and other countries. Most beers are Pilsners, but some wheat beers and a large amount of dark lagers are produced.

ee also

*German beer
*Plzeňský Prazdroj, a. s.
*

References

* http://www.staropramen.com/
* http://www.pilsner-urquell.com/
* http://pivovary.info/showpage.php?name=summary


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