Karoliny Svetle 4, 370 21 Ceske Budejovice
Tel.: (+420-387)770 51 11
Fax: (+420-38)37 111 35
E-mail: budvar@cbu.pvtnet.cz
Owner: State
Types of beer: 12% light lager, 10% light lager, low-alcohol beer, non-alcoholic beer.
Annual production: 1,000,000 hl - of this 77% is 12% beer, 22% is 10% or low-alcohol beer, and 1% is non-alcoholic beer.
Exports to: Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Spain, Finland, France, England, Greece, Hungary, Israel, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, Belgium, Holland, Norway, Poland, Cyprus, Sweden, Azherbaijan, Georgia, Croatia, Lithuania, Latvia, Slovenia, Estonia, Russia, Japan, Ukraine, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Portugal, Morrocco, Ireland, Mongolia, South Africa, Rumania, Uzbekistan, Serbia, Bulgaria, Belorussia, Slovakia.
Miscellaneous: At the end of 1996, the brewery reached an annual production of a million hectaliters for the first time in its history.
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Lidicka 51, 370 54 Ceske Budejovice
Tel.: (+420-38)670 8110
Fax: (+420-38)635 5234
E-mail address: jipisekr@samson.cz
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Pivovar Samson
Lidicka 51, 370 54 Ceske Budejovice
Tel.: 038/866 201
Fax: 038/836 77
Founded: 1795, by townspeople with brewing privileges
Owner: Jihoceske Pivovary, a.s., Ceske Budejovice
Types of beer: Samson 10% light and dark beers, 11% light, 12% light, Diapivo, non-alcoholic beer.
Annual production: 422,000 hl (1996)
Exports to: Austria, Germany, USA (under the name Crystal), England, Scandanavia, Slovakia.
Miscellaneous: The brewery is the holder of the Czech Made certificate for 12% light beer.
In 1996, a new brewing house with a capacity of 640,000 hl was installed.
Pivovar Regent Trebon
Trocnovske nam. 124, 379 14 Trebon
Tel.: 0333/721 319
Fax: 0333/721 321
Founded: 1379, by a monastic order
Owner: Jihoceske Pivovary, a.s., Ceske Budejovice
Types of beer: Bohemia Regent 10% light, 12% light and dark beers, 9% semi-dark.
Annual production: 363,000 hl (1996), 9% half-dark - 1%, 10% light - 75%, 12% light - 22%, 12% dark - 2%.
Exports to: England, Germany, Austria, Sweden, Finland, Italy, Slovakia.
Miscellaneous: The brewery is situated on the historical location of a former Rosenberg armoury.
Pivovar Platan Protivin
Pivovarska 1, 398 12 Protivin
Tel.: 0362/733 111
Fax: 0362/851 855
Founded: 1598
Owner: Jihoceske Pivovary, a.s., Ceske Budejovice
Types of beer: Platan 10% light and dark beers, 11% light, 12% light, Dia beer, Fit beer.
Annual production: 272,000 hl (1996), 10% light - 60%, 11% light - 28%, 12% light - 6%, others - 6%.
Exports to: Russia, Germany, Austria, Slovakia.
Miscellaneous: Owned by the Schwarzenburg family from 1711 until 1947, the brewery is located on a 14-hectare forested park, where "Summer under the Plane-tree" (platan = plane tree) programs are held, with a variety of musical programs in the area of Belveder.
Karoliny Svetle 4, 370 54 Ceske Budejovice
Pivovar Pelhrimov
Pivovarska 856, 393 01 Pelhrimov
Tel.: 0366/23757, 21203
Fax: 0366/21457
Founded: 1552, by townspeople with brewing privileges
Owner: State
Types of beer: 10% and 12% light beer
Annual production: 10% - 55,000 hl, 12% - 10,000 hl
Miscellaneous: One of the few breweries that produces natural, unpasteurized beer.
Pivovar Strakonice
Podskalska 324, 386 19 Strakonice
Tel.: (+420-342)321 789
Fax: (+420-342)24 405
E-mail address: vondricka@pvtnet.cz Founded: 1649, by Strakonice citizens with brewing privileges
Owner: State
Types of beer: Nektar 8% and 10% light beer, Nektar 10% dark beer, Nektar 11% light, Strakonicky Dudak 12% light lager.
Annual production: 190,000 hl: 10% light - 65%, 11% light - 15%, 10% dark - 10%, 8% light - 5%, 12% Strakonicky Dudak - 5%.
Miscellaneous: Took second prize for 10% light beer at PIVEX 96. Took the prize at PIVO 96 for 11% and 12% light lager.
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Latran 27, 381 15 Cesky Krumlov
Tel.: 0337/3921
Fax: 0337/3609
Owner: Pivovar Eggenburg, a.s.
Types of beer: 10% light beer - 80,223 hl, 10% dark - 3,306 hl, 12% light - 17,412 hl, diapivo (beer without suger for diabetics) - 576 hl.
Annual production: 101,517 hl
Exports to: Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Miscellaneous: The 10% light beer holds the prize "Pivo 96."
5. kvetna 1, 396 01 Humpolec
Tel.: (+420-367)532 407
Fax: (+420-367)532 183
Owner: Ing. Stanislav Bernard, Rudolf Smejkal, Ing. Josef Vavra.
Types of beer: Bernard 10% light beer (65% of production), 11% light, 11% semi-dark, 12% light lager, 12% holiday lager (only in bottles, after three-step fermentation process)
Annual production: 110,000 hl
Exports to: Germany, Slovakia
Miscellaneous: Bernard beer is produced naturally and unpasteurized, by a traditional preservation method - separate from the main fermentation - fermentation in a beer cellar. Since the year 1991, when the annual output was roughly 26,000 hl, this figure more than quadrupled in the next 6 years.
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Zvikovske Pohradi 92, 398 05 Oslov
Owner: Spolecnost pro vystavbu a spravu Pivovarskeho dvora Zvikov, s.r.o.
Types of beer: Zlata Labut - 12% light and dark, 14% dark, 10% light, and 13% red beer.
Annual production: to 10,000 hl
Miscellaneous: The Brewery Courtyard is a complex which includes not only room and board, but also contains a butcher and bakery that also supplies the surrounding area.
Jarosov
Tel.: 0632/2201 (551 371-74)
Fax: 0632/2665, 551 594
Types of beer: 8%, 10% and 12% light beer, 10% dark, 11% semi-dark, Light beer, and Fresh non-alcoholic beer.
