вЂњTheyвЂ™re snazzy as hell, man.вЂќДЄfter sampling the beer in cans, Rotello decided to get it on draft, which seemed to work well with his clientele of both the geeky and BMC-drinking varieties. Initially, he said, he was inspired by the breweryвЂ™s new line of historic cans. He adds that heвЂ™s partly been keeping Pilsner Urquell on full-time because he likes to drink it himself. вЂњItвЂ™s an easy sideways sell for our Bud and Miller drinkers,вЂќ says Zak Rotello at his pub, the Olympic Tavern in Rockford, Illinois. See what I mean? Personally.Д«ut because Urquell is ostensibly made in the same style as American Pilsners, the beer can also serve as a stepping stone for mass-market consumers. I wrote a long blog post listing the mistakes in the Czech entries of The Oxford Companion to Beer, many of which were about Pilsner Urquell, and wrote another three posts about the founding of the brewery in Pilsen back in 2012, including the first English translation of the breweryвЂ™s original founding document of 1839, as well as posts on the intentions of the Pilsen brewery founders (including their backgrounds-contrary to many reports, they were predominantly Czech, not German), and a list of other mistakes and misunderstandings about the breweryвЂ™s history.

After I published Good Beer Guide Prague & the Czech RepublicВ in 2007, I kept encountering incorrect stories about the brewery, which caused me to spend a lot of time studying the breweryвЂ™s history in various dusty archives around the Czech Republic. This is something I took rather personally. From Barons to Barrels with Captain Pabst.Message in a Bottle with Brewery Ommegang.Beer is Labor with East Brother Beer Co.Ferments at Low Temps by Stephanie Byce.

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