New beer at Easter, jubilees and football
The sun is shining onto the courtyard of the Strahov brewery, rays reflecting in the glasses of beer. “I have already had the amber one, the dark one too. The Easter one, then,” a middle-aged lady decided. She went out for a beer with a friend. “This Easter one isn’t bitter at all,” she said. The number of special beers brewed for special occasions in the Czech Republic is growing. Christmas ones are strong and dark while the Easter one is lighter. The Strahov brewery started to serve 13-degree non-filtered light green beer one week before Good Friday. To resurrectionThe tradition of seasonal special beers came to the Czech Republic from western Europe. It is common in Belgium and SwedenContinue Reading