Žatec Brewery () is a
brewery
A brewery or brewing company is a business that makes and sells beer. The place at which beer is commercially made is either called a brewery or a beerhouse, where distinct sets of brewing equipment are called plant. The commercial brewing of b ...
in
Žatec
Žatec (; ) is a town in Louny District in the Ústí nad Labem Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 19,000 inhabitants. It lies on the Ohře River. Žatec is famous for an over-700-year-long tradition of growing Saaz hops, Saaz noble hops u ...
in the
Czech Republic
The Czech Republic, also known as Czechia, and historically known as Bohemia, is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Austria to the south, Germany to the west, Poland to the northeast, and Slovakia to the south ...
. The firm continues the traditions of industrial
brewing beer in the region dating back to 1801.
Products
* Žatec světlé (4.1% vol.)
* Žatec Premium (4.8% vol.)
* Žatec Export (5.1% vol.)
* Žatec Dark Label (5.7% vol.)
* Baronka Premium (5.3% vol.)
* Žatec Blue Label (4.6% vol.)
* Celia – bezlepkové pivo (4.5% vol.)
* Celia Dark – tmavé bezlepkové pivo (5.7% vol.)
* Cornish Steam lager (5.1% vol.)
* Sedmý schod (5.5% vol.)
* Plavčík (3.8% vol.)
History
The tradition of brewing beer in Žatec spans over 700 years.
Saaz hops, a
"noble" variety of
hops
Hops are the flowers (also called seed cones or strobiles) of the hop plant ''Humulus lupulus'', a member of the Cannabaceae family of flowering plants. They are used primarily as a bittering, flavouring, and stability agent in beer, to whic ...
which accounts for more than of total 2009 hop production in the Czech Republic comes from Žatec.
* 1261 The first brewing guild with the legal right to brew beer in Žatec is formed.
* 1798 The cornerstone is laid for the first industrial brewery in Žatec.
* 1801 The first beer is brewed in Žatec's first industrial brewery.
See also
*
Beer in the Czech Republic
*
Pilsner
Pilsner (also pilsener or simply pils) is a type of pale lager. It takes its name from the Bohemian city of Plzeň (), where the world's first pale lager (now known as Pilsner Urquell) was produced in 1842 by Pilsner Urquell Brewery.
History
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References
External links
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Carlsberg brands
Breweries in the Czech Republic
Food and drink companies established in 1801
1801 establishments in the Holy Roman Empire