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Pivovar Decin Founded: 1707
Sofijska 2, 405 51 Decin
Tel.: 0412/26001, 27791
Fax: 0412/23941
Owner: Pivovar Decin, a.s.
Types of beer: 10% light Bukanyr, 12% light Admiral
Pivovar "U vozku" Founded: December 1995, by Frantisek Vozka
Masarykova 436, 460 01 Liberec
Owner: Frantisek Vozka
Types of beer: Vozka's Yeast beer - 12% light beer
Annual production: up to 2,000 hl
Pivovar Litomerice Founded: 1720, by townspeople with brewing privileges
Lidicka 15, 412 01 Litomerice
Tel.: 0416/5151
Owner: Pivovar Litomerice, a.s.
Types of beer: Kalich natural beer - 7%, 10%, 11%, 12%, 14%
Annual production: 50,000 - 200,000 hl
Miscellaneous: Litomerice beer won the prize in Paris in 1900, and in Vienna in 1901. The beer was exported to Califoria before WWII. The brewery was visited by the Austrian emperor Franz Josef I in 1901.
Pivovar Louny Founded: 1892, by Prince Schwarzenberg
Ricni 633, 440 85 Louny
Tel.: (+420-395)629 130, 629 161
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Owner: Pivovar Louny, a.s.
Types of beer: Classic low-alcohol beer, Desitka 10%, light and dark, Premium 12% light and dark lager, Diamant low-sugar beer, Benedikt (herbal beer)
Annual production: 270,000 hl
Exports to: Germany, Spain, United States
Miscellaneous: Louny Benedikt is the only herbal beer brewed in the Czech Republic according to the recipe created by the Louny brewery.
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Pivovar Radegast Sedlec Founded: 1976, as compensation for a ruined brewery in Most
P.O. Box 238, 434 35 Sedlec
Tel.: 035/41252, 41721
Fax: 035/96305
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Owner: Pivovar Radegast, a.s.
Types of beer: Zlatnik 10%, 11%, 12%, Pivrnec 11%, Radegast Porter 18%, Radegast Light, Radegast Dark - 10% dark beer, Radegast Triumf - 10%, Velkopopovicky Kozel 10%.
Annual production: 300,000 hl, 75,000 more than the previous year (1995).
Exports to: Countries of the European Union
Miscellaneous: Since October 1996, the brewery has been producing a new 11% beer, Pivrnec, with a different label every few months by a popular cartoonist, who has also decorated some of the Radegast pubs in Prague.
Pivovar Vratislavice Founded: 1872, by Liberec brewery and brewing company
Liberec 30, 463 11 Vratislavice nad Nisou
Tel.: 048/462 911-12; 0413/62424
Fax: 048/462 813
Owner: Prazske pivovary, a.s.
Types of beer: Vratslav 10% and 11% light and 11% dark beers, Premium 12% light, Vratislav Free non-alcoholic beer.
Exports to: Germany, Great Britain, USA, Lithuania
Pivovar Svijany Founded: 1564
463 46 Svijany
Owner: Prazske pivovary, a.s.
Types of beer: Svijanska Desitka 10%, Svijany 11%, Zamecky Maz 12%.
Ustecke Pivovary, a.s. Annual production: 500,000 hl
Drazdanska 80, 400 07 Usti nad Labem
E-mail: marketing@drinksunion.cz
Exports to: Germany, Scotland, Kirghizstan, Ukraine
Pivovar Zlatopramen
Drazdanska 80, 400 07 Usti nad Labem
Tel.: 047/550 3030, 550 3366
Fax: 047/550 3045
Founded: 1867, by JUDr. Viktor Russ
Owner: Ustecke pivovary, a.s.
Types of beer: 10% and 11% Zlatopramen light beers
Miscellaneous: The brewery was visited by the Emperor Francis Joseph I in 1901. At the 1999 PIVEX festival in Brno, the Premium took 2nd prize and the 10% light beer took 3rd.
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Pivovar Breznak
Pivovarska 116, 403 23 Velke Brezno
Tel.: 047/514 5351, 514 5621-2
Fax: 047/514 5586
Founded: 1753, by Count Ferdinand Harrach
Owner: Ustecke pivovary, a.s.
Types of beer: Breznak - 10% and 12% light and 10% dark beers
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Chmelar, Soukromy Pivovar v Zatci Founded: 1801, by townspeople with brewing privileges
Zizkovo nam. 81, 438 01 Zatec
Tel.: 0397/4481
Owner: Gustav and Ludmila Seifert (since May 1, 1995)
Types of beer: Zatec Chmelar 10%, 11%, 12% light, and 11% dark beers
Annual production: 90,000 hl
Exports to: Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Germany, Armenia, Italy.
Miscellaneous: The Zatec brewery is located on the original site of the Zatec castle and its cellars are used to this day for storing beer. The cellars are also preserved as monuments.
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