GLUG - A Czech Beer Primer

GLUG - A Czech Beer Primer

Beer - it's central to Czech social life, history and identity. Pretty much any Honza walking down the street just knows certain things about beer, having grown up in a culture saturated with it. This episode aims to give you the same background knowledge, so that you, too, can be on the same page as the locals. At least when it comes to the good stuff.

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SECTIONS

01:35 - A brief history of beer

03:19 - Serious business - purity laws, brewing boom, brewing bust, breweries bounce back

06:48 - A matter of degrees

07:38 - How to make beer

11:58 - Beer styles (lager vs ale)

13:25 - Dark & light

14:33 - Hops to it

15:22 - Czech beer brands

21:34 - Budvar vs. Budweiser

27:57 - Post Velvet Revolution

28:45 - The proper pour (and types of pours)

33:38 - Czech pub culture & habits

 

• Music by Fanette Ronjat

 

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