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Czech Beer Culture

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发表于 1-25-2013 10:25:12 | 显示全部楼层 |阅读模式
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Sean Carney, Brewing Controversy Over Proposal to Make Water Cheaper Than Beer; In Czech Republic, Idea Taps Strong Feelings; Birthplace of Pilsner. Wall Street Journal, Jan 25, 2013 (front page).
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB ... 45751517339948.html

Quote:

"In most restaurants and taverns across the Czech Republic, a mug of beer is, literally, cheaper than water.

"Czechs drink an average of 37 gallons of the stuff per person per year, the highest per capita consumption in the world and more than double US levels. * * * 'For a Czech, it's like wine for a Frenchman or vodka for a Russian.' * * * said Jiri Vinopal, director of the Czech Academy of Sciences' Public Opinion Research Center[:] 'Since the Middle Ages people here have made beer their primary drink.'

"When the city of Plzen, about 60 miles southwest of Prague, got its charter in 1295, its people were given the right to brew beer, helping ensure the settlement's prosperity. (In the 19th century, the city gave its name to the bottom-fermented lager made there and now known as pilsner.)

Note:
(a) Plzeň
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plze%C5%88
(which is Czech spelling; German: Pilsen [where the "s" is pronounced "z"; located about 90 km west of Prague at the confluence of four rivers; section 2 Pilsner beer)
(b) Pilsner
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilsner
(section 1 Origin)

* The German (not Czech) noun masculine "urquell" means "fountain."
(c) The report says, "The country's oldest brewery still in operation, Prague's U Fleku, was founded in 1499."

U Fleků
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U_Flek%C5%AF
(a pub and microbrewery in Prague; founded in 1499; In 1762 the brewery was bought by Jakub Flekovský, which gave its current name : U Fleků means in Czech "At the Fleks")

(d) The report next says, "Beer was so important to the Czech political economy at that time that knights and nobles fought for and won the right to brew beer under a landmark royal decree in 1517."

Jana Parízková and Martina Vlkova, Chapter 10 Beer in the Czech Republic. In Wulf Schiefenhövel & Helen Macbeth, Liquid Bread; Beer and brewing in cross0cultural perspective. Berghahn Books, 2011, at page 103
http://books.google.com/books?id ... 20right&f=false
("In 1517, King Ludvík Jagellonský gave permission for aristocrat breweries to be established in a concession called the 'St Wenceslas reconciliation'")
(i) Louis (given name)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_(given_name)
(section 1 Variant forms: Czech: Ludvík; German: Ludwig)
(ii) Jagiellon dynasty
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jagiellon_dynasty
(section 1 Name)

Quote: "a royal dynasty originating from the Lithuanian House of Gediminas that reigned in Central European countries (present day Lithuania, Belarus, Poland, Ukraine, Latvia, Estonia, parts of Russia, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Croatia) between the 14th and 16th centuries. Members of the dynasty were Grand Dukes of Lithuania (1377–1392 and 1440–1572), Kings of Poland (1386–1572), Kings of Hungary (1440–1444 and 1490–1526), and Kings of Bohemia (1471–1526).

(iii) Kingdom of Bohemia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Bohemia
(1198–1918)
(iv) Louis II of Hungary
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_II_of_Hungary
(1506-1526; "King of Hungary, Bohemia and Croatia from 1516 to 1526. He was killed during the Battle of Mohács fighting the Ottomans")


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