Yes… it wasn’t really difficult to find a topic for our first blog post 🙂
History
Czech Republic, Czechia or even historically known as Bohemia, all three names has been always a synonym for a best quality beer production since the medieval times. The oldest documented brewery established on our territory was the one at Prague’s Brevnov Monastery in 993 – unsurprisingly by its monks – the Benedictines. Since very beginning, there has been always a strong competition between Czechs and Germans in who’s beer is better, and even though there was a lot of cooperation, joint projects, science and new discoveries over the centuries, we – as a Czechs, would always bet our lives that our beer is simply the clear winner 😅👍
Today
We’re producing annually over 2 million litres of beer, which is giving us 8th position in Europe. We cannot really compete with a bigger countries like Germany, UK, France or Poland in volume – since we are mid sized land with population of 11 million people, but where we really shine is the consumption of beer per capita 🤷♂️😅In this activity, we’re leading the world… and actually by far 😁 What it brings besides other is the enormous number of local breweries (we have over 500), which makes the competition very strong, so quality of beer is the highest and price remains low. It is actually true that in many pubs or restaurants throughout the country, you will pay less for a half liter of beer than for a half liter of bottled water – insane, right? 🙈
Main Ingredient
It is also worth to mention that hops – the main ingredient giving beer its bitterness found a paradise to live in Czech Republic 😁 Our climate zone together with a perfect content of our soil is giving us the advantage to grow and cultivate some of top noble varieties of hops and export globally – that’s why we call it a green gold 💚 Fine example is the variety “SAAZ” grown in our most famous hops area around the town of Zatec, which is located approximately 50 kilometres northwest from Prague.
