
How do Czech beer
• How do Czech beer
Royal Brewery "Krusovice" - a truly unique blend of strong traditions and history of the latest achievements of modern times.

Going fields, which grows hops !.

Distance between "the beds" is exactly the width of the tractor so that he could go and harvest.

History Krusovice brand dates back to 1517, when the famous aristocrat and boozer Jiri Birka founded the brewery.
And here is the plant itself!

We drive!

The territory has a restaurant and souvenir shop of this brand.

But we did not come here for the trinkets!

Some historical thing ..
After 64 years after the 1581 base brewery year enough drunk and debugged technical process of obtaining a tasty Czech products sold Jiri then King Rudolph II brewery with all adjacent land.
Legend has it that Rudolf II used to having got drunk at night was bursting at the brewery with a question, whether there is poured a beer?

In this room there are boilers for brewing beer.

In general, the production of beer is as follows: Preparation of beer wort, fermenting wort beer yeast, secondary fermentation.
Barley is the main raw material for beer. The collected off barley is soaked in water and are when it absorbs moisture. Then water is drained and the grains under constant agitation, begin to dry.
roasted barley then. The resulting product is called malt, and the process - malting.
The crushed malt is poured water, and begin to heat. During heating, the enzymes being in beans processed starch into sugar. In the end, the greatest possible quantity of starch processed into soluble sugar. The wort is filtered and pumped into a tank for boiling. During this and hops are added.

But here we already find ourselves in a room where the brewed beer is stored.
In the chilled wort to add special brewer's yeast, which are in the process of fermentation in the wort being processed sugar into alcohol.

Dobrazhivayut beer in huge metal tanks at a temperature of 1-2 degrees.
The duration of fermentation is determined by the beer brand and may have a term of up to 3-4 or even 6 months.

Throughout the terrible signs!

Company periodically receives quotations on production Krusovice in other countries, but the owners (and currently the brand owned by Heineken) firmly reject them.
The secret is simple - used local water. it only gives the beer a real royal taste.
Water quality control of beer and the end-product is carried out directly on the production.

Position the beer laboratory worker is a very honorable and, of course, responsible.
By the way, every employee of the plant has a 50% subsidy for the purchase of 200 liters of beer per year. The prices in the canteen for factory workers the minimum, and allowed one glass of beer during the workday.

The most interesting part of any plant - a conveyor!
Thousands of bottles of beer will soon go on the shelves of Czech shops and around the world.

Big River beer!

We leave the territory. Already known to us from the tanks pivischem!

As can be seen, at the factory are stored empty bottles other popular brands of Czech beer. It turns out that each plant has its own responsible region in the Czech Republic to receive beer containers. The consumer is losing its bottles of certain plants, and those, in turn, have themselves changed branded packaging. In the near future the plant will go to the wagon competitors to share their bottles on their own.

By the way, the price of any beer in the Czech Republic is on the bottle price. So that when large quantities are beer bottles strategic currency.

Krusovice beer is exported to over 30 countries around the world, but only in the Czech Republic. Not for nothing is the royal beer, t. To. Served in all the official presidential receptions.

The plant is located in the village Krusovice (near the town of Rakovnik, Central Bohemian Region).

On the territory there are abandoned areas, t. To. The process is mechanized, "compacted".

But the story here is appreciated. Cherish the old barrel with a company logo.

maintain and expand the layout of the plant ...

... and the old brewery ...

... with the whole process of making beer.

And finally - the tasting! Total factory produce 6 beers. And the guests are offered light, dark and strong.
Number - without limits! However, time is limited tasting