Budweiser Budvar

Budweiser Budvarís beers are brewed only in one place in the world, at the Budweiser Budvar brewery in CeskÈ Budejovice, the beautiful and historic main town of Southern Bohemia. This is an area that has the reputation of being one of the finest unspoiled natural environments in the Czech Republic. Rarely can a town have been more focused on its brewing than Budweis which somehow managed to shrug off the momentous European events in which it was in the eye of the storm. Expressing themselves dissatisfied with the quality of the beer produced by the town's German brewery the local Czechs declared they would set up their own. As they did this they broke with the feudal past at the same time. The new brewery was to be a modern joint stock company with a green field state-of-the-art plant, not some weird medieval survival depending on archaic charters for its existence. It was infact an expression of a new dynamic Czech society opposed to the crumbling Hapsburg Empire represented by the old German brewery.