Brewery and Brewery Museum

The Pilsner Urquell Brewery and Brewery Museum

The Pilsner Urquell Brewery is the most favourite tourist destination of foreign visitors of Pilsen. The brewery complex and the Brewery Museum are visited by more than 180 thousand tourists annually.

The Pilsner Urquell Brewery

The Burghers' Brewery was founded by the Pilsen burghers with brewing licence in 1842. The first batch was brewed on the 5th October 1842. The fame of the Pilsner Urquell beer soon reached the world and the brewery gradually expanded to its present shape. Nowadays, the brewery is a vibrant dynamic place where the traditional manufacturing procedures meet the most advanced brewing technologies. Developed into a unique industrial monument, the brewery is attractive (not only) for all lovers and connoisseurs of good beer.

The sightseeing tour offers:

• - Visitors centre – a short documentary about the history of the Pilsner Urquell beer
• - Modern Filling Room - the most up to date filling room in the Czech Republic with the capacity of 60 000 bottles/hour
• - New Exhibition Pilsner Urquell –a film about the manufacturing of Pilsner Urquell (Cinerama, revolving auditorium) sensory exhibition of ingredients, historical brew house from the beginning of the 20th century.
• - Brewing House- unique manufacturing process of the Pilsner Urquell beer
• - Hall of Fame – the best known monuments of the brewery
• - Cellars – beer tasting – filtered and non-pasteurized Pilsner Urquell straight from the barrel (above 18 years old only)

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Brewery Museum

The Brewery Museum is the only museum of its kind located in an original brewing house well preserved in its authentic shape so that the visitors can see a Gothic malt house with a well, malt drying kiln, drying shed, cool room, two level cellars and premises of the former tap-room. Hundreds of unique exhibits give testimony of the history of brewing from Antiquity till the present. The history of “beer culture” is presented in two pub models: a 19th century village pub and an early 20th century town pub. The adjacent building houses one of the oldest Pilsen beer houses, Parkán – its name derived from its location between the medieval walls of the city (parkán).

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