A couple days ago we began the Beer Tour. This is both a fun activity and a burden we bear for our family back home (names shall go unmentioned here), who wants us to scope out locations for a future Beer Tour of its own. (Those who are unmentioned should start taking notes now.) Here’s stop Number One:
Staropramen Brewery, Prague, Czech Republic.
The name means “original source.” It’s the native beer of Prague and probably tries to claim the status of first beer produced in Europe. Of course, we (this is Geo, Krissy, Sara and I) don’t know that because we didn’t actually take the brewery tour. That’s happening this weekend. But we did go into their restaurant, which boasts excellent fare (of large proportions) and of course the full list of Staropramen brews.
I tried the unpasteurized version, thinking that all that native yeast still hopping around in the brew would make it muy distinctive. Alas, while it felt a little heavier on the tongue, it was still beer. Geo and Krissy got light and dark ales in tall stylish glasses with “Staropramen” etched out of the glass down the side. Sara got what looked like a vat of beer (“looked like” because of the huge glass in which it was delivered), a wheat beer that was quite tasty. I think we’re both acquiring more taste for wheat beer than traditional hops. We’ll see.
This weekend it’s off to Plzeň, the town after which Pilsner is named (Pilsner is Plzeň in German). It’s a short 2-hour train ride west of Prague. There we’ll go on an actual brewery tour as well as sampling the local fare. Stay tuned.
~emrys
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