Vyšší Brod Monastery
Active Cistercian abbey with a medieval brewery history and a Baroque library of rare manuscripts.
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This guide to Vyssi Brod Monastery near Cesky Krumlov follows an unlikely thread through Cistercian discipline: since at least 1380, monks vowed to prayer and silence also ran a working brewery, keeping one recipe for travelers and the refectory and a finer batch reserved only for the abbot. You'll meet the monastery's own brewer, remembered only as Mikulas, and hear a rival parish pastor's jealous complaint about how freely the beer flowed here.
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