Czech beer, beer brewed in the Czech Republic, has a long
and important history. A brewery is known to have existed in 1118,
Brno had a right to brew beer from the 12th century, no and the
two cities most associated with Czech beer, Plzeň and České
Budějovice (Pilsen and Budweis in German), certainly had
breweries in the 13th century.
Hops have been grown in the region for a long time, and were
used in beer making and exported from here since the twelfth
century.
In 1842 a brewery in Plzeň employed Joseph Groll, a German
brewer who was experienced in the new cold fermentation lager
method. Their beer at the time was not of very good quality and
they needed to compete. Groll developed a golden Pilsner beer, the
first light coloured beer ever brewed. It became an immediate
success, and was exported all over the Austrian Empire (a special
train of beer was sent to Vienna every morning), and reached Paris
and the U.S. by 1874.
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