Czech beer is something special

The Czech Republic is the country that drinks the most beer per person per year.

With an annual consumption of just over 140 litres per person, they top the list, compared to Sweden’s just over 50 litres per person.

We in Sweden also like beer from the Czech Republic and are happy to choose a pilsner from the country.

The Czech Republic is the country that consumes the most beer per person in the world, where their Pilsner Urquell, from Plzeň, also known as

Pilsen, has set its benchmark.

In 1842, Urquell started his brewery and paved the way for pilsner where all malt should preferably be pilsner malt of native barley along with soft water.

Brewmaster Josef Groll was then able to present the first clear, golden and under-fermented beer in the world, namely pilsner, which became a golden revolution.

In 1895, the state-owned brewery Budějoviký Budvar, located in České Budějovice in the southern part of the Czech Republic, started about 150 km outside Prague.

The brewery is one of the largest in the Czech Republic with their bestseller Budéjovický Budvar Premium Lager. All of their beers are made from local ingredients; water, malt, yeast and hops with beer traditions dating back more than 700 years in time.

The local water is taken 320 meters into the soil and the fresh hops are well-selected. It takes between 30-200 days to brew their beer, which is of very high quality. Well-made beers with a lot of flavours. Their Budvar Buděvjoviký (1353), which is their flagship, accounts for more than half of the total production. A well-balanced good light-lager beer with just the right amount of 5% sweetness and sweetness, which is one of the most famous Czech beers in the world.

The brewery, which is high up in the export market in the Czech Republic, exports to 58 countries. Of which the largest market is Germany, followed by Slovakia and Austria.

The name of the beer varies depending on where in the world you are. Budějoviký Budvar, Budweiser, Budweiser Budvar, Budvar, Bud or Czechvar.

In the United States and Canada, the beer is called Czechvar, so that it does not become interconnected with the American Budweiser, which belongs to a completely different brewery.

Czechvar which, incidentally, is the combination of the two words ”Czech” (Czech) and ”pivovar” (brewery).

The beer cafes in Prague are full early in the morning where the locals sit and drink their good Czech pilsner. Feel free to order a ”snyt” when you are in Prague next time, or half/half as it is also called, where half in the glass is beer and half foam. They pour the beer in a different way that makes it taste lovely.

I can understand that there is a lot of beer drunk in the Czech Republic because surely they have a good beer that is hard to resist. Or as beer and whiskey journalist, Michael Jackson once said.

”To my mind, the beer made by Czechvar brewery is one of the world’s truly great beers...”