Budvar is celebrating 126 years. Did you know that the history of the Czech national brewery goes even further? – Aktuality.sk

However, the history of today’s internationally known lagers began to be written much earlier. When Přemysl Otakar II. more than 750 years ago he founded the royal city of České Budějovice, among the first privileges he was granted the right to brew beer. Extensive several thousand-year-old artesian wells with crystal water determined the location the cornerstone of the brewerywhere to until today boils Czech tradition. The story of quality and tasty golden juice spread very quickly and less successful entrepreneurs tried to feed on its popularity. Therefore, King Wenceslas IV. in 1410 in an effort to protect the famous quality of Czech liquid gold issued regulationthat no one else will brew or tap beer in the vicinity of one mile from Budějovice. However, even then there were more than enough speculators, and in the 50 years since the regulation, so many black establishments have grown that the citizens of Budweis had nothing left but all malt houses, breweries and pubs within a mile. demolish. A little drastic, but effective.

Beer for the emperor

In the 15th century, the reputation of beer from České Budějovice grew so much that the town became the most important brewing town of the Holy Roman Empire and Emperor Francis I of Habsburg demanded that beer for him personally cooked right here. Over the next centuries, the second also opened to the first city brewery, and the townspeople achieved that both breweries became the property of the city’s citizens.

With the Lord God, 1x 7/10 95, 7 / III 8 hrs. 10 ° -1-4- / 200hl

Another huge milestone in the history of the Czech national brewery occurred in 1895. Ethnic mixed Budějovice was known under the German name Budweis, which is also an explanation, why the beer is called Budweiser. However, the proud Czech masters of the brewery were not satisfied with the fact that the Czech national pride is in the hands of the Germans, and after overcoming considerable financial and political difficulties, they founded Czech joint-stock brewery owned by Chekhov. The brewer of the brewery started the brewery October 7, 1895 he made a short note in the diary note: “With the Lord God, 1x 7/10 95, 7 / III 8 hrs. 10 ° -1-4- / 200hl“. Shortly afterwards, the Czech Budweiser recorded successes on the domestic and foreign markets, and the modern history of the old Czech tradition began to be written.

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The products of the Czech joint-stock brewery have attracted the whole of Europe.
Source: Budvar

The name “Budvar” was the first to be proud of the export 12 ° light lager, which broke through the world with such great success that in 1936 it earned inclusion in the name of the brewery, which has been known ever since Budvar – Czech joint-stock brewery, České Budějovice. However, the war years did not have mercy for the poor brewery either. The highlight of everything was the dark night of 1942, when it was literally he disappeared from evening to morning the whole, until then huge, export of beer. However, the brewery, built on the solid foundations of Czech brewing art and pride, did not put that. The post-war period restored previous international successes, and in the 1960s the design underwent a revolutionary transformation. Some of the motifs of the time are still used on labels today. There was another turnaround in the 1960s – Budweiser Budvar became a national enterprise and today it is the only company owned by citizens in the Czech Republic.

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In the Czech National Brewery, beer is brewed from honest pressed heads of Satu Mare hops.
Source: Budvar

Still in one place and nowhere else

Budweiser Budvar has come a long way, but one thing has remained the same: beer is still brewed here from the best and always the same local ingredients. Even today, as years and centuries ago, you enjoy the golden juice whole cones of Satu Mare hops Saaz variety, Moravian malting barley from Hanej a clear water from an artesian well from the Ice Age from a depth of 300 m below the brewery. The quality of these raw materials was also appreciated by the European Commission when it granted Budvar the status ofProtected geographical indication ‘. Local sources and traditional methods are therefore the reason why Budweiser Budvar is cooked exclusively in České Budějovice. It is also a guarantee that Budweiser Budvar will taste the same in any of the 76 export countries. It is also important that the České Budějovice brewery does not speed up the beer, but lets it go through a phase of fermentation and maturation. It has probably the largest capacity of lager tanks in all of Europe, allowing beer to mature for as long as necessary. Therefore, its products still taste like original beer, they have their own terroir and they cannot be compared with beers from global breweries.

Ambassador of Czech beer culture

The internationally recognized Czech lager is also popular with demanding Slovak brewers. The Czech National Brewery is not only a producer and seller of beer, but also an ambassador of Czech beer cultureat home and in the world. So his job is more than just selling beer. As an ambassador, he teaches how to properly tap him, serve him and how to make drinking Budejovice lagers a real experience in general.The Czech national brewery Budějovický Budvar has been doing well for 126 years. It has undergone many changes, well in any case he retainedhigh quality, created from local ingredients and the enthusiasm of its brewers.