Location: Strakonice, South Bohemia
Strakonice has a long
beer brewing tradition. The town grew from the villages below the
castle built in 1230. Beer had been brewed there since before 1308.
Bavor IV of Strakonice granted the local people the right to brew
beer on 8th
December 1367.
Due to the hardships of the Thirty Years’ War, the
impoverished beer makers agreed with the town authorities to
establish a common brewery in house No. 47 in 1649. At that time,
there were 158 houses with the right to brew beer in Strakonice. The
town brewery was expanding, and the old technology was replaced by
new industrial ones. In 1873-74 a steam-driven brewery was built on
the bank of the Otava river, and the old house turned into a malt
house. The World War I. and II. was a catastrophe for the local beer
making too, and in 1948 the brewery was nationalized and incorporated
into South Bohemian Breweries. After the Velvet Revolution the life
of the brewery has been changed. After a long process of
privatization, in 2005 the Strakonice Brewery went to the ownership
of the city, and now the town of Strakonice is the only shareholder
of this company. Extensive modernization was started and it will
completed in 2019. In 2011 the company changed its name to DUDÁK
(Bagpiper). The brewery offers various types of beer that are
demanded, among others Švanda
draught pale ale, Dudák premium pale and dark lager, Klostermann
semi-dark lager, or Král Šumavy
pale lager. Another popular brand is Sklepák unfiltered lager. The
taste of Strakonice beer is strong and popular.
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