Prague Guide

Pilsner Urquell is known for being the world’s first pilsner, meaning it was and remains bottom-fermented. The origins of this new product began with simple customer dissatisfaction. Barrels of the murkier top-fermented ales were dumped and the Plzeň City Council embarked on a new brewing process. The resulting Pilsner Urquell has stayed unchanged until this day.

Prague has a huge amount to offer any tourist. It is one of the most cultured cities in Europe, offers great food and there is a wealth of entertainment spread throughout the city. One thing that eclipses all of these though is beer – a drink that ...

Czechs are the proud owners of a unique, herb-based liquor named: 'Becherovka'. This liquor is hard to explain to someone unfamiliar with it because it's not like any other type of drink. Its' ingredients, actually, are a guarded secret—and its' recipe is kept under lock and key so only an authorised person can produce it.

Absinthe has made a comeback in Prague as the spirit of choice of alternative trendsetters. It is very well known as the 'green fairy' liquor, due to its normal green colour. Absinthe is a powerful concoction (with 70% of alcohol), flavoured with wormwood, and once in the late 19th and early 20th centuries it was consumed in huge quantities across Europe.

The Prague City drinking ban is aimed at the general public, not just stag parties, but anybody who knows Prague will tell you they'll be the ones most likely to be stopped by police. The real question is to what extent Czech police enforce this …

Come and have a look – and taste – for yourself how one of the best beers in the world is brewed - Pilsner Urquell. At the local brewery, you will enjoy a tour around the brewery, as well as a visit to the Brewery Museum.

The terms listed below comprise the foundation upon which many modern-day Czech beer types are based. Light Tap - broadly speaking, světlé výčepní beer's a style of Pilsner brew, coloured light gold, normally made with quite a low alcohol level because of the smaller quantity of malt at eight-ten degrees Balling. The equivalent in Germany is called Schankbier.

Karlova Street just in the middle of the centre of Prague is overcrowded with tourists walking between Old Town Square and Charles Bridge. However, few of them depart slightly from the route to a nearby temple of Czech beer drinkers – the beer house u Zlatého tygra. A traditional Czech pub, guests here sit at wooden tables. Just make sure to get here early!

"Utopenec" (Drowned man) — so-called because it consists of soft, strong, spicy sausage filled with onion and spicy paprika, seasoned with pepper and covered or "drowned" in a liquid made from water ... Cheese platters are quite common, and are composed of slices of eidam, hermelín (camembert) or niva (blue) cheese with a chunk of butter, a dash of paprika, and perhaps a pickle and a basket of rolls or bread.

Czech wine is produced mainly in the Moravia region, the south-eastern part of the Czech Republic. Although it is not as famous as other south-eastern wines like those from France or Spain, Czech wine is known through its representatives like the red wines Frankovka, Vavrinecke and Modry Portugal, and the whites Muller-Thurgau and Riesling.

Czechs amber liquid or 'liquid bread', as the locals lovingly call beer 'Pivo' is world famous and fully appreciated by the Czechs themselves. For many centuries Czech beer has been the finest available. The distinctive flavour of Czech beer comes from handpicked Bohemian hops.