PUBS AND BREWERIES

First New Town Brewery

This microbrewery can be found in the Vodičkova Street. It supplies its beer exclusively to its own restaurant. Its capacity is 340 seats and 15 hectolitres of beer are brewed in front of the sights of the guests daily. The offer includes eleven-degree non-filtered lager and dark and light yeast beer. The restaurant is in an original way divided into ten rooms representing different architectonical styles. The entrance space, where a two-container brewing facility is situated, as well as the Aldermen's salon, are decorated in the secession style.

The largest one, the so-called Mayor's salon is designed in the Renaissance style. Its appointments are the motives from Český Krumlov and other South Bohemian castles. Another space is called Podskalí and is decorated in the style of Old Prague swimming baths. The Fermenting cellar follows, with kitchen tables and chairs placed in front of a window with muscatels, through which it is possible to see five fermenting vats. The restaurant then closes with three Gothic salons with remnants of frescoes and other elements of Gothic decoration.

U Fleků

The U Fleků brewery and the adjacent restaurant are to be found in the Křemencová Street. Its main pride is a historic brewing room from the beginning of the twentieth century, cooling benches and fermenting vats in the fermenting cellar made of oak and built according to old patterns. The present look of the brewery is the result of a reconstruction carried out in 1986. The brewery produces solely thirteen-degree black beer, the capacity of the restaurant is 800 seats, divided into 8 halls.

In 1999 a brewing museum was opened, marking the 500th anniversary of beer production. You can find the samples of brewing machines, tools and vessels in the renovated rooms and learn about the ancient history of beer making in Prague at the same time. The most interesting part of the museum is a room where malt used to be dried by hot smoke from burning wood. The museum is marvellously incorporated into the romantic environment of the U Fleků brewery and magnifies its unforgettable atmosphere.

Monastery Brewery Strahov

The Monastery Brewery Strahov is found within the complex of the Strahov monastery, which was founded by King Vladislav II in 1140. The first references to the local brewery can be dated from the beginning of the fourteenth century. In 1907 the brewery was closed down and the grounds were used as agricultural buildings. The brewery reopened in 2001, after an extensive and costly reconstruction of the whole complex.

The present form of the Monastery Brewery Strahov offers the guests a total capacity of 350 seats in three distinctive spaces – in the brewery itself, in St. Norbert's restaurant, and in the brewing yard. A specialty of the establishment is the high-ranked St. Norbert's beer which is brewed exclusively from Czech natural ingredients without filtration or pasteurization. Its typical feature is a harmoniously well-rounded taste with higher bitterness.