Famous Worldwide

The Žatec region is famous worldwide for its unchallenged hops. Even a thousand years ago the fine Žatec hops were exported abroad - one of the key reasons why Žatec was a wealthy royal city for centuries.

The Žatec hops and malt made from local barley by themselves guarantee good beer brewing.

Green Gold

The history of Czech breweries contains only two breweries with a proven tradition of brewing beer in a single location for more than 700 years - Svitavy (1256) and Žatec (1261).

Close to the end of the 18th century, the Žatec breweries together were not able to cover the full market demand for beer (at that time, Žatec contained 30 malt houses and 4 breweries, which were used to brew beer by 235 Žatec burghers holding beer brewing privileges), so after 30 years of hesitation it was finally decided to build a new brewery in 1797, at a cost of 7,125 florins.

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