Historický pivovar Český Krumlov
Neo-Gothic brew house on the river, reviving a four-hundred-year local beer tradition since twenty fifteen.
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This guide to the Historický pivovar in Český Krumlov opens with an old local legend about an innkeeper named Jan, a cellarman he fired for short-measuring beer, a curse, and a fatal fall on the cellar stairs. It then sets that story aside for the real stakes behind it: since thirteen forty-seven, when Petr of Rosenberg granted the town brewing rights, cheating a customer on beer was treated almost like theft from the whole community, and in fourteen fifty-nine the Latrán quarter even went to court over who got to brew it. Demand eventually outgrew the old castle brewhouse, and around fifteen sixty Wilhelm von Rosenberg raised a new one on this spot, with fresh water piped in a year later by the engineer Jakub Krčín.
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