For those of you who have been to Prague a few times and are thinking of another visit and want a little adventure there are half a dozen brew pubs within a couple of hours travel form the city centre. Why not get your planning head on and go for a bier ramble? We have so far been to three of these, details below.
An excellent day out is to the small village of Chyne; Located about 13 km (30 mins)south west of the city, Pivovarsky Dvur Chyne litrally meaning Brewery courtyard. Get the nunber 347 bus from Zlicín metro station to stop Pivovarský dvur Chýne. Depart Zlicín at approx. 15 minutes past the hour, and approx 10 to the hour going back, about once an hour each way. Or you could cycle as it is on one of the main cycle routes.
The whole building was converted from ruined, messy, dirty, socialist-style former agricultural buildings. While we were there they were fatterning pigs up for a local festival a week later. There is the main brew pub/restaurant and also now a new small bar that also sells 3 of the main beers and at about a 1/3 of the cost of the main bar We had 4 different beers one of which was an excellent dunkles beer. For the real atmosphere I recommend the small bar that the cyclists use, also it is a lot cheaper for the same beer than in the restaurant and food is good robust fair. They only have menus in Czech and German so brush up on your Czech. Here is a good phrase to have handy “Dobre Dan, dva velky cerne pivo, prosim”. Which is “Hello, two large dark beers, please” you cant go far wrong with that one. (cheers Gazza).
Next off is the town of Beroun and the Berounsky Medved, located at Tysova 135, the trains run regularly form the city so no need to book and take approximalty 30mins through some nice country side. As you come out of the train station at Beroun turn left along past the station, passed some concert garages, then walk under the road bridge on to an un-made road into an industrial estate! This is a real gem of a place set in a working scrap yard! With actual weapons of mass destruction at the side of the bar. What can I say? Again this is a popular stop for cyclists that stop by of a drink and then buy take out pep bottles of the beer. There is a small patio were you can watch the cars being crushed. Inside it is such a welcomed surprise, a large room with massive wooden beams and long trestle tables with benches. White washed walls with murals painted on a fest for the eyes. The bar in the corner and there were serving a normal golden beer4%abv and a dark that was 5% and was full of chocolate and coffee notes, and was very quaffable one of the best beers I have had in the Czech Republic. A walk into town is quite nice as it is a quite unspoilt village.
On wards and upwards as they say on next up was the village of Pruhonice and the brew pub, U Bezousku Kvetnove namesti 5, the bus form the city stops just out side and leave Prague’s Opatov metro station approx every 15 mins. This is worth the trip for the village is also home to a quite stunning castle with vast gardens and a lake that you can wander around for a small fee of £2. The brew pub is all dark wood panelling and the brew kettles are set in the main dining room. We were there around lunch time and were the only ones in the place so not really any atmosphere but the beer was passable they had three to choose form a crisp golden beer at 4.3% a dark amber one at 5% and our favourite the Bizon at 6.5%
