Brewery tours are included in the price of your basic holiday but if you want to do more than one it can be arranged and the entrance fee is little more than a few pounds at most. You even get a chance to taste them! Recommended for beer connoisseurs and people with a genuine interest in how their tipple is made. Sample the riches of the inventors of lager as we know it. Pilsen is town with rich beer brewing history. It has its own Beer Museum with collections on trades, guilds and beer brewing history. Pilsner Brewery/Brewery Museum Tour

Nowadays Plzensky Prazdroj is the leading brewing company in Central Europe and exports to more than 50 countries. Some of the brands are: Pilsner Urquell, Gambrinus, Radegast a Velkopopovicky Kozel, Plzensky Prazdroj. In the brewery you will also see 10 minutes film about history of the Pilsner beer; you will visit the old and new brew house, The Hall of Fame and lager cellars where Pilsner Urquell has been being brewed since 1842. You will, of course have a chance to taste this first class world famous beer!

And once there why not try a traditional Czech lunch and another pint of the great lager at Na Spilce beer restaurant which is situated inside the Brewery.

As well as the Pilsner brewery you can try the breweries mentioned below. More information is published in our about Czech Republic pages.

Budweiser Budvar, Prague Staropramen or Velke Popovice Brewery

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