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The Prague brewery Staropramen is to increase the prices of its draught and bottled beer by around 6 percent from next month, a spokesperson said on Tuesday. The price rise follows a similar move by Pilsner Urquell earlier this month. Since the year 2000 Staropramen has been owned by the Belgian group Interbrew. It has a 14 percent share of the Czech beer market.

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The leading Czech beer brewer Pilsner Urquell has announced an increase in the price of Pilsner beer. This should send the price of bottled beer and beer on tap up by one crown per half a litre as of Monday. Pilsner Urquell controls 50 percent of the market and its decision is expected to set off a wave of price increases by other beer producers in the country.

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If you listened to Czech Books on Sunday, you'll know that the popular young Czech writer Jaroslav Rudis is something an eccentric - with an inexhaustible passion for trains. But, in a country where beer-drinking is a profound cultural phenomenon, Jaroslav - like so many Czech writers before him - also finds inspiration in the pub, engaging with the various characters that prop up the bar. For Witness today, Jaroslav tells a story from one of his more recent visits to a Prague pub.