We're not ones for religious pilgrimages, but beer pilgrimages are a bit of a requirement when in the Czech republic, but a little on Plzen first.
We know two crazy Czech girls, now in Dublin, who come from this little town Plzen, a couple of hours west of Prague. And just like Eba and Irena, the locals were friendly, especially our lovely barman.
However, a group of girls, who we now believe were having a bit of a muck-up day, reminded us of the cheeky side. After we didn't give them money on demand (we had no idea what they were saying), we were squirted with vinegar!!!! Luckily, Dean got most of it and we learnt our lesson. When you see people in costume talking to you in Czech, give them money. Nothing worse than smelling of vinegar all day! Since then, we have off-loaded our change happily and avoided groups of celebrating students. I'm just grateful they didn't use fish-oil like in Rowville.
Now, back to beer. Apparently, the first filtered Pils was brewed in Plzen. This happened after 36 barrels of local beer was poared in the square to emphasise how bad the local beer was. After this, the locals combined their resources to create pilsner urquell. This, is the the best Czech beer i have tasted! Now whilst on tour of the brewery, we also got a taste of unfiltered Pilsner from one of the barrels in the 9km of cellars under the brewery. Yep, they needed all this space to store enough of the beer.
Nice big vats full of beer!
Tasting unfiltered beer, straight from the barrels. Lovely.
Btw, there are also more tunnels in Plzen where they would bring up water and have stores. Doning hard hats, we were led through some of these tunnels by the tallest Czech i have ever seen!!! And what did we see in these tunnels, lots and lots of Pottery. The local archeologists had found lots of it, many in tact in the wells in the tunnels.
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