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Hlucinsky Stary Pivovar
Pode zdi 148, 748 01 Hlucin
Tel.: 069/972 2694 (9742165)
Fax: 069/972 2694
Founded: 1526, by Hlucin townspeople
Owner: Placek Leonard, Ing. Pavel Chalupa
Types of beer: Slezsky Korbel 12% light and dark lagers
Annual production: 10,000 hl


Pivovar Radegast, a.s.
739 51 Nosovice


Pivovar Radegast
739 51 Nosovice
Tel.: (+420-658)602 111
Fax: (+420-658)641 414
Founded: 1970, by the State
Owner: Plzensky Prazdroj, a.s.
Types of beer: Premium light lager, Triumf light beer, Klasik light beer, Birell non-alcoholic beer.
Exports to: Slovakia, Germany, Poland, Scandinavia, USA
Miscellaneous: Radegast light lager won the prestigious Pivo Roku (Beer of the Year) award given by Pivni Kuryr(Beer Courier) magazine 4 times (1992-4, 1996).
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Pivovar Radegast Sedlec
P.O. Box 238, 434 35 Sedlec
Founded: 1976, as compensation for a ruined brewery in Most
Owner: Plzensky Prazdroj, 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 in 1996, 75,000 more than the previous year.
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 popular cartoonist Petr Urban, who has also decorated some of the Radegast pubs in Prague.


Pivovar Velke Popovice
Ringhofferova 1, 251 69 Velke Popovice
Tel.: (+420-204)623 111
E-mail address: pvpkozel@czn.cz
Founded: 1874, by Frantisek Ringhoffer
Owner: Pivovar Radegast, a.s. is the largest shareholder with more than 85%.
Types of beer: Velkopopovicky Kozel 10% light beer, Velkopopovicky Kozel 10% dark beer, Velkopopovicky Kozel 12%, Velkopopovicky Kozel 14% dark, Velkopopovicky Kozel non-alcoholic beer.
Annual production: almost 600,000 hl
Exports to: Slovakia, Russia, Finland, Austria, Sweden, USA
Miscellaneous: The living symbol of the brewery's goat mascot is named Olda.
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Pivovar Prostejov
Vrahovicka 57, 796 24 Prostejov
Founded: December 21, 1897, by the Prostejov business association
Owner: Pivovar Prostejov, a.s.
Types of beer: Jecminek 10%, 11% and 12% beers, beer for diabetics and non-alcoholic beer.


Moravskoslezske pivovary, a.s.
750 51 Prerov


Pivovar Litovel
Palackeho 934, 784 01 Litovel
Founded: 1893, founded as an agricultural, joint-stock brewery
Owner: Moravskoslezske pivovary, a.s.
Types of beer: 10% and 11% light, 12% light and dark, Free non-alcoholic beer
Annual production: 320,000 hl, the largest part being 10% beer
Exports to: Germany, Russia, the countries of former Yugoslavia
Miscellaneous: The brewery was originally founded in 1292, when the town was granted certain rights by King Premysl Otakar II, including the right to brew beer. In 1994, the 12% dark beer took first place in the Czech Brewers' prize. The famous wrestler Gustav Fristensky was married to the daughter of the first brewer.


Pivovar Zlatovar, Opava
Pivovarska 6, 746 01 Opava
Founded: 1824, by an Opava citizens' corporation
Owner: Moravskoslezske pivovary, a.s.
Types of beer: Zlatovar - 10% and 12% light beers
Annual production: 140,000 hl


Pivovar Zubr
Komenskeho 35, 750 00 Prerov
Founded: 1872, by several hundred central-moravian investors
Owner: Moravskoslezske pivovary, a.s.
Types of beer: Bottled beer: Zubr 8% and 10% light, 10% and 12% dark beers, Zubr 12% light lager, Zubr Dia, Zubr Free
Annual production: 8% - 1,500 hl, 10% - 380,000 hl, 12% - 50,000 hl
Exports to: Slovakia, Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Moldavia, Ireland


Pivovar Ostravar
Hornopolni 57, 728 25 Ostrava
Tel.: 069/611 4624
Fax: 069/611 1978
Founded: 1897
Owner: Prazske pivovary, a.s.
Types of beer: Ostravar 10% light and dark beers, 12% light, and Rallye non-alcoholic beer.
Exports to: Russia, Slovakia, Canada, USA, Poland


Hostinsky Pivovar a Hotel Excellent
Pivovarska 10, 795 01 Rymarov
Tel.: 0647/3011
Founded: 1664, by aldermen of Rymarov - reopened in 1995 after reconstruction by Trias KPK, s.r.o.
Owner: Trias KPK, s.r.o.
Types of beer: 10% light beer (400 hl), 12% light (600 hl), 14% dark (400 hl)
Annual production: 1,400 hl
Miscellaneous: The 12% light beer took first place in the small breweries contest in 1996.


Pivovar Vsetin
4. Kvetna, 755 01 Vsetin
Tel.: 0657/2892
Founded: 1848
Types of beer: Vsacan 11% and 12% light, Portas 10% dark beer.
Annual production: 300,000 hl


Pivovar Holba
Pivovarska 261, 788 33 Hanusovice
Tel.: 0649/231 317
Fax: 0649/231 276
E-mail: pivovarholba@ova.pvtnet.cz
Founded: 1874
Types of beer: 10% and 11% Serak light beer.
Miscellaneous: The brewery recently invested in new cylindrical tanks for brewing. The brewery's 11% Serak lager won the gold at the PIVEX 97 festival.
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