![]() ![]() A leading architect, Martin Stelzer, was hired to design the brewery and he toured Europe and Britain to study modern breweries that used the new technologies of the Industrial Revolution-pure yeast strains, steam power, and artificial refrigeration-to make beer. Local businessmen and tavern owners in Pilsen committed to raise funds and build a new brewery, to be called Burghers’ (Citizens’) Brewery. Beer drinkers demanded better beer and they had heard of the new method of brewing in neighboring Munich, where so-called Bohemian beer made with the aid of newly invented ice-making machines was meeting with approval. ![]() The beer, probably wheat beer but certainly made by the method of warm fermentation, was sour and undrinkable. Pilsner Urquell originated after disgruntled tavern owners in the Bohemian city of Pilsen (Plzeň in Czech, and now within the Czech Republic) poured 36 barrels of the local beer down the drains in 1838 and sparked a revolution in brewing. ![]()
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