Hotel U Pramenu Plzen
Na Roudne 123 Plzen, Bohemia, Czech Republic
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Day 7 - a Czech school visit and more celebrations
... We parked the car and walked towards the town square in Baroune, Jitka then realized we had forgotten to pay for parking. We rushed back to the car and Jitka explained that if you haven't paid for parking, the people who come to check will immediately put a shoe on one of the tires of your car and you will have to pay a huge fine. Jitka was also saying that they target the cars with Prague number plates as they don't like them around ...
The home of Pilsner!
... very large) basement maze and served us "fresh", unfiltered beer straight from the giant wooden casks. Pretty cool. Other than that, we just "czeched" out the town square that was having some sort of fair, and ate some delicious sausages and had more of the local beverage, before catching a night bus out of town and into Munich.
- Nick
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Plzen: Hometown of the world's original lager beer
... bringing their kids up the tower. On several occasions, I saw children crying as they attempted their descent. There really isn't too much to see in this city and most people prefer to come for a day trip from Prague. I don't blame them.
The brewery tour was quite informative but I already knew how beer was made so I was only looking forward to trying the beer. This isn't just ...
Beer Me!
... part of the plant but one line was running so we saw the bottles scuttle past on their way to being filled.
We wound our way through the plant and saw a multimedia presentation on the brewing of Pilsner Urquell. They mash it or boil it three times which is unusual. They also hop it three times. Using Saaz hops from the region. A few years ago, there were several natural hops ...
Beer tourism...
... before him...
The tour starts with the production line - the cleaning of recycled glasses, the airation & subsequent dispensing of beer into glasses and laser scanning of the bottles for imperfections, this was pretty much how it worked for the cans aswell (minus the recycling step).
If I could bore you with all ...



