Pilsner: The Beer That Made Beer Famous

Large numbers of Czechs setteled in central Texas along with a lot of Germans. There's a local brewery named Shiner from Shiner, Texas. The brew many old world style beers. But the funny thing was their advertisements. A sign on the side of the road says. " Our Beer passes through many quality Czechs everyday ".

I work for Pilsner Urquell and I must say this video is brilliant, well explained good sir!

In summer of 1994 I sat in a hotel lobby in Budapest and some Czek guests had opened up their cooler to my friends and I to try their local Pilsner. It is still the best tasting beer I’ve ever had. It had a green and white can with some red on it. We knew Pilsner Urquell, and it wasn’t that. They had so much fun practicing english with us and they were so proud about how much we loved their beer. good times 😊

As an old swedish man, I have always loved czek's as the perfect resistors in icehockey ever, due to good skills and fair play, Those matches many years ago, were nerve thrilling, and the best memories of my youth. I adored their spirits, and skills just like the swedes. I would have love, that our countries were closer together, but the geography says what it is. The Pilsner developing is just one of their brilliant skills, but a good evidence. I send my love to the people there. 🥰

Very good video. I believe another reason for the Pilsners popularity at that time was that the Czechs were producing high quality clear glassware for the first time. This allowed for people to gaze upon the lovely clear golden beverage inside for the first time too.

My father was born and raised in western Czechoslovakia and came to the US in 1945. I drink a Pilsner Urqell every Christmas to honor him.

Anyone who has brewed beer knows that a perfect pils is the pinnacle of skills. Home brew and even micro brew batch sizes make this much more difficult, as one flaw will ruin the whole batch. Hats off to those early artisans who perfected this technique.

About 40 years ago my father gave me a Pilsner Urquell and told me the basic history of it being the original Pilsner. I love seeing this story enriching the details he shared.

In Denmark pale lagers was/is simply known as "pilsner". Only in the last 25-30 years, with the reinvigoration of the art of beer, have people started to refer to them as lager to differentiate from ale, the latter which had almost vanished. (Kind of ironic that we almost lost our beer culture, since beer-making shaped the history of Denmark, with I.P. Jakobsen and Carl Jakobsen (founder of Carlsberg and his son) being instrumental in Denmark becoming democratic, and huge benefactors of science and the arts in ways which had very large implications for both Denmark and the world). But also, the culprits in almost losing the beer culture, was Carlsberg which bought very many smaller breweries and closed them).

My Grandfather was in the Army and fought in WW2 from Normandy to liberating the encircled troops at the Battle of the Bulge. When VE day came his unit was stationed in and around Plzeň, for the rest of his life in Central Texas his favorite beer was Pilsner Urquell.

Wow! This is probably the best explainer of the pilsner beer I've ever seen. I'm Czech myself and work as a tour guide in Prague and even doing a beer tours with trips to Pilsner Urquell brewery in Pilsen. I have to honestly admit your explanation of the pale lager is much clearer and more straightforward than my typical beer tour guiding routine.

Yuengling golden pilsner is my favorite beer. A few years ago the owner of Yuengling hired a locksmith to open an old iron safe that belonged to his grandfather. It contained a number of papers with beer recipes in German, one was for a golden pilsner. Yuengling started offering this golden pilsner about a year later and its been a real hit for them.

Have had the pleasure of visiting both the Pilsner Urquell brewery in Plzen multiple times + the historic brewing tunnels. The brewery tour includes a tasting from a freshly tapped barrel in the chilly tunnels. Best beer I've had in my life ...The draft pilsners they drink every day in Czechia are unbelievably better than the bottled exports, but the freshly tapped pilsner is heaven! Add it to your bucket list!

I live in Kenya and I'm 23 years old now. Pilsner was so popular here when I was younger around the early 2000s together with our own beer Tusker. It's not as popular anymore but still a cult classic, I'm happy to learn about it's history now.

As a Bavarian, that has been to Pilzen, in the Urquell brewery, I very much appreciate this video

And here I am in Prague, drinking Gambrinus and watching this. Thank you, it was most informative!

I live in Plzen , and I approve of this historical video

There's a small brewery in Montréal, L'amère à boire, that has been doing an amazing Czech-style pilsner non-stop since 1996, the Cerna Hora. They had managed to sneak a vial of yeast from the Czech republic just as the Iron Curtain was unraveling, and it's been the cornerstone of their production. I've been drinking it since the late 1990s, even before the big Craft renaissance that brought the IPA juggernauts (which have never fully fed my fancy). It never ceases to amaze me how good a pale lager can get, and I have this Cerna Hora to thank for.

I personally have to credit to Anchor Steam in the 1970's for Americans to start rediscovering brewing quality beers. It started the microbrewery revolution that made really high quality Pilsner beers available again, at least here in the USA.

Fantastic video! I absolutely love Pilsner Urquell! It is my favorite beer! I grew up in West Germany and as a kid [9 or 10 years old], my land lord would give my father Pilsner Urquell in exchange for Barcadi rum that my dad coul dbuy tax free on the US Army base in Fulda! Of course, I was allowed to sip this amazing beer at the local festivals ! Such great memories!