Where to go for beer specialties?

Klub malých pivovarů (Club of Small Breweries)

Eight various beers on tap are offered here every day. Every year they switch between as many as 800 types of beer from 250 different micro breweries from all over Bohemia. And to top it all off, they sell bottled beer from all over the world and prepare top-notch meal options.

• www.klubmalychpivovaru.cz (Nádražní 16, Pilsen – map)

Pivstro – Brewhemian Beer Bistro

This beer bistro combines a number of types of draft beer from micro breweries with North American cuisine. Among others, you’ll find House Ale from the Zhůřák micro brewery on tap, beer brewed specifically for the Pivstro bar, Belgian Delirium Tremens as well as Pilsner Urquell 12°s.

• www.pivstro.cz (Bezručova 31, Pilsen – map)

KEGzistence

KEGzistence is a new beer bar in the centre of Pilsen, where, in addition to smiling and expert staff, twelve beers on tap from all over the world and over a hundred other beers in the fridges are waiting for you every day. On tap, in addition to classic lagers, you can taste wheat, rauch, ALE, IPA, NOIPA, sour, portter, stout and many more.

• www.kegzistence.cz (Rooseveltova 4, Pilsen – map)

Raven Pub City & Bolevec

You can try a number of both draft and bottled beers at the Pivotečka pub, located in Pilsen’s city centre. Expect to find anything from IPAs and APAs to Belgium Kasteel Rouge.

• www.pivovar-raven.cz (Plachého 10, Pilsen – map and Mozartova 1, Pilsen – map)

Zlatá kráva Bandaska

Not far from Republic Square, a beer bistro from the farmer’s brewery Zlatá kráva (Golden Cow) of Nepomuk has opened shop. Here they offer refreshing lagers as well as semi-dark specialties and even wheat beer. And as soon as you see all the delicious options made in the kitchen, you won’t know what to pick first.

• facebook ZLATÁ KRÁVA BANDASKA (Riegrova 24, Pilsen – map)

Francis

Apart from the Pilsner Urquell Brewery, this retro beer café offers beer drafted from the Zhůřák and Raven breweries as well as a fourth (rotating) tap and a fridge full of (not only) Belgian specialties.

•  facebook Francis (nám. Republiky 3, Pilsen – map)

Purkmistr

To reach this brewery you’ll have to travel from the city centre to Pilsen’s Černice neighbourhood. Nevertheless, the local tasting board won’t have a hard time convincing you to make the trip.

• www.purkmistr.cz (Selská náves 2, Pilsen – map)

Beer Club ‘The Blue Star’ (Modrá hvězda)

You can taste test some amazing beer, made by the Blue Star Brewery in Dobřany on 13 taps, at this one-of-a-kind beer club in the centre of the city.

• www.pivovarmodrahvezda.cz (Klatovská 25, Pilsen – map)