Bernard - Czech Breweries 2.

Location: Humpolec, Highlands Region

In 1991 Stanislav Bernard, Josef Vávra and Rudolf Šmejkal won an auction for the small privatization of the bankrupt brewery in Humpolec, established in the 16th century. They have started a long renovation and development process, including the whole modernization of the factory. In 2000, the brewery became a part of a join-stock company. Since July of 2001, Bernard Brewery is in strategic partnership with the Duvel Moortgat from the Kingdom of Belgium. In the past twenty years the Bernard Family brewery continued its growing, and became a well-known premium brand throughout the entire Czech Republic. 

Nowadays the Bernard is well known not only at home, but also in many countries worldwide. In 2009 more than 200.000 hl of alcoholic and non-alcoholic beer was produced and exported to 26 countries. The success of their product is based upon the special recipe, the use of the best ingredients (malt from the own malt house, czech hop, own yeast culture, own spring water from the Czech-Moravian highlands), and other special brew making technologies. And the main difference between the Bernard and other czech beers is the use of the microfiltration technology, a special procedure for the final beer treatment that really makes Bernard an exceptional, unpasteurized beer.