Brno Beer Brewery
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The Czech Republic is known for many things - delicious frothy beer being one of its biggest attractions and consumptions! The total Czech beer production is 18.5 million hectolitres annually, and the average annual beer consumption is nearly 161 litres per capita. Join us in learning and experiencing a little more about the wonderful Czech-brewed beer, StaroBrno, whose brewery is located in the heart of Moravia in the town of Brno.
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History and About the Starbrno Brewery
Starobrno Brewing in Brno has a long tradition. The earliest reports of Brno-city already refer about brewing in this region. In the beginning, the beer was brewed in convents and monasteries coming into existence on the Brno-city territory and in its suburbs. The most important ones were the Cistercian sisters' convent and later on the Augustinian brothers' monastery in the old-town of Brno.
In 19th century, together with the technical development started the progress in the brewing industry; small manufacture breweries stopped their operation and new ones were coming into existence, but this time they were very modern and technically equipped breweries. In 1872, the Mandel and Hayek family company came into existence and bought the land where Starobrno brewery is located today. Beer production in the new brewery expanded gradually and thanks to further extensive constructing and implementing new technical innovations, the brewery was able to produce 236.000 hl of beer at the end of the 19th century.
Since 1947, the brewery has kept on growing and increasing its production capacity till it reached the current output of 700.000 hl. In the course of the last few years, a gradual modernisation of the production equipment was carried out. The main changes came up after 1994 when BBAG Austrian Brewing Company took over the business. In close relation to the development of sales and marketing policies, considerable investments were made in the technology sphere.
In 2003, Starobrno, a.s. became a part of Heineken, the brewing company and organisationally is integrated in the Brau Union AG group. Starobrno, a.s. consists of two breweries - Starobrno and Hostan and the annual production amounts to approximately 900.000 hl of beer.
Apart from classical Czech bottom-fermented lagers, brewed through a traditional Czech technology, the assortment of Starobrno brewery offers special types of beer such as Black Drak, Cerveny' Drak and Baron Trenck, brewed according to a special formula. The whole production process is controlled through the HACCP system. The quality certification of the Czech Republic - Czech Made was granted to Starobrno lager.
