wfowlks
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So my work is sending me to Prague for 11 days in May. I am staying in old town. I was hoping that maybe you guys could give a Brewer some suggestions on where to go and what to do.
So tell us more. What did you drink and where did you drink? My 13th trip is in a month, and I try to find new places every time. I'll bet you've found some I have not.
OUTSTANDING thread! Prague is on my list of MUST visits, always has been.
Anyone have any picts of their trips they want to share?
Cheers
Jay
Nota Bene is big on the whole locally sourced gig, and they have a real talent for running out of things. But for that, it is the best place in Prague if you want both to eat and to drink great beer. They rotate their craft beer menu quite regularly.
We've booked a flat overlooking Jiriho z Podebrad for ten nights from Apartments in Prague. I think we are paying about $90/night. There is even a brewer or two at the three times a week farmer's market on the square there.
Pivovar U Tří Růí
This was a brewpub and restaurant in old town. The food was good, not great, but their beer was amazing, and they brewed some different beer than what you typically find in Prague. They served the only IPA I found anywhere on the entire trip. It was a Simcoe hopped one. It wasn't labeled as an IPA, but it definitely was of the IPA style.
I married my high school sweetheart when I was in my late 40s, and we agreed to honeymoon somewhere neither of us had been before. We went to Prague in 2004, and have returned every year since. We'll be staying in Vinohrady this time; it's on the east side of Prague.
The winery sounds fantastic, and I've never heard a word of it before. Will try to get my wife to come with me to check it out. She does not drink, but tolerates my pubs. Not sure if I can get her to add wineries to her tolerance list or not.
Nice job getting all the diacritical marks on the other pub, which means At the Three Roses. I met the brewer my first time there, and agree they do some very nice stuff. I later learned it is owned by Russians, and that the Czech people are not uniformly happy about that fact (to put it somewhat obliquely).
Yeah the weather this last week was PHENOMINAL. I did find the beer fest to be a dissapointment and twice as expensive as the local beer around. My work office was actually next to the Staropramen Brewery, so when we were drinking coffee on the lookout deck and walking to work, we could smell the sweet mash.
But my co-workers too me to what what I refer to as the Beer Garden on the Mountain, others call it Letna Park. And my other favorite places were, Kolkovna, Zly Casy, The Prague Beer Museum, U Kroka and a place that translates to The Thirsty Deer.
This is the view from Letna Park. I was sad that it was raining the night before I left or I would have gone back:
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So I went there, I didn't really like their IPA, because the one i was served was warm and flat. And that was a problem that I found when I tried other ones at the beer festival that the carbonation wasn't there. But I found it funny because when you get a Pilsner they are often super carb'd.
The ones i did like from Tri Ruzi were the IIHF beer, and their pilsner.
I do also concur with the food, not great, but decent, more on the expensive side
There was also a fun little place in lesser town. I can't recall the name, and couldn't find it on Google, but it was fairly close to Charles bridge, if I recall correctly, and they have a basement "dungeon" dining/drinking area. It's lit by candles and a couple of very dim lights. It actually takes quite awhile for your eyes to get adjusted it is so dark in there. It was a bit gimmicky, as in trying hard to push the old-style dungeon feel, but still very cool.
You may be referring to U Sudu, my personal favorite bar....circa 1995. Lots of other underground places in Prague....and if you get a chance to go to Krakow you'll find much of the same.
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