Beer Festival in Žižkov (Portal of Prague)

Beer Festival in Žižkov

A family-focused festival in Parukářka park on 8th and 9th June 2012 will present around 100 beers from thirty small Czech breweries. On Sunday a collectors fair in Jiřího z Poděbrad square, will offer the chance to buy homebrewing ingredients.

Oskar Exner
28. May 2012

The Žižkov festival will present beers which are basically unknown in Prague as they are produced by small breweries. These are becoming increasingly popular as they brew faithful Czech beer without “globalizing” additives. You can also vote for the beer you like best.

Podskalská koza beer for sure

Podskalská koza beer will certainly be familiar to anyone who visited the secondary school trade fair Schola Pragensis, where this beer was on offer. It is brewed in a limited quantity of 50 litres at the Secondary School of Food Technology in Podskalská street. Many excellent brewers have come from this school, often going on to work for small breweries. Besides this enterprise another two small Prague breweries will be represented - Novoměstský brewery and Strahov Monastery brewery.
Incidentally, the Podskalská school brewery got into the record books when it managed to produce the strongest beer in the Czech Republic, a so-called 38o brew named Podskalská pusinka (Podskalská Kiss).

Homebrewing? Try it!

The beer festival includes a fair in Jiřího z Poděbrad square. Besides beer mats, beer mugs and other products typical of beer culture you can get advice from collectors about any items you may have at home, such as old beer bottles. The fair will also offer raw ingredients for homebrewing – malt, hops and yeast. You can also get some tips on how to brew beer at home.

Surprises on the menu

Good food goes well with good beer. Most of the small breweries are also preparing some kind of surprise, e.g. freshly-fried potato crisps etc. As the organisers of the festival also organise the farmers’ markets in Jiřího z Poděbrad square and Rašínovo Nábřeží, the quality of the food can certainly be assured.

Programme for adults

The cultural programme offers live music from groups such as Hudba Praha, Vltava and Blue Effect. The musical programme will be in regular two-hour blocks interspersed with informative talks and fun competitions. Members of the Sdružení přátel piva (SPP – Friends of Beer Association) will explain the basics of pulling a pint, tasting beer, differences between types of beer, marking the strength etc. The independent consumer experts of První pivní extraliga (Beer Premier League) will focus more on entertainment.

Kids programme

Apart from making use of the nearby playground there will also be a children’s stage where presenters will lead a programme for younger visitors. For young car-lovers there will also be an exhibition of several real veteran cars.

28. May 2012
28. May 2012

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Time and place

8th and 9th June 2012 – Parukářka park (Vrch svatého Kříže) Prague 3

10th June – Beer Flea Market - náměstí Jiřího z Poděbrad, Prague 3

Public transport - Parukářka

METRO A: Flora station, then 350 metre walk or one stop by tram

TRAM: Nos. 5, 9 and 26 to Olšanské náměstí

BUS: No. 175 to Olšanské náměstí

Public transport – náměstí Jiřího z Poděbrad

METRO A: Jiřího z Poděbrad

TRAM: No. 11 to Jiřího z Poděbrad

Participating breweries

The following breweries have registered so far (at 7.5.2012):

*Rodinný minipivovar Pacov, *Minipivovar U Stočesů Rokycany, *Novoměstský pivovar, s. r. o., *Jihlavský radniční pivovar, *Slepý krtek Ujkovice, *Klášterní pivovar Strahov, *Pivovar Chotěboř, s. r. o., *Pivovárek, s. r. o. – Plzeňský pašák, *Pivovarský dvůr Chýně, *Pivovar Herold Březnice, a. s., *Pivovar Taschenberg Buštěhrad, *Pivovar Dalešice, *Klášterní pivovar Želiv, *Bohemia Regent, a. s., Třeboň, *Tradiční pivovar v Rakovníku, a. s., *Pivovarský dvůr Zvíkov, s. r. o., *Pivovar Ferdinand, a. s., Benešov, *První soukromý pivovar společenský, s. r. o., Lipník nad Bečvou, *Pivovary Lobkowicz (7x), *Pivovar Liberec-Vratislavice – Konrad, *Pivovar Nymburk, s. r. o., Beer will also be available at the Secondary School of Food Technology stall and the SPP stall.

Catalogue

A unique informative guide gives information about the participating breweries and their products, the range of food available, the cultural programme and the accompanying education and entertainment programmes.

Admission

Admission is free, but anyone who wants to try the beers can buy a commemorative “tasting kit” comprising of a 0.3 litre beer mug, a catalogue, a pencil and a festival beer-mat. Or you can buy only a beer glass. The reason is simple – no plastic cups! It’s about consumer culture. If you’re not drinking beer, soft drinks will be available, in which case you don’t have to buy the special set or beer glass.

By the way…

– PET- bottles – individual stalls will be providing special PET-bottles with a carrying loop for you to take some beer home with you.

– Beer Yearbook – a newly released publication which will be on sale. Besides giving a lot of interesting information about beer it also introduces some of the participating breweries.