Duration: based on interest and consumption
The visitors often associate Moravia with wine or plum brandy… However, Haná – and also the Kroměříž region – are areas ideal for cereals growing and most importantly for barley, one of the fundamental ingredient (in the form of malt) needed for beer production. From Kroměříž it is not so far to get to the hop fields around Přerov. And so it is no wonder that beer was and still is produced in Kroměříž.
Beer – an alcoholic beverage, one of the most popular in the world, is prepared from barley, hop plants, water and yeast. Industrially produced beers usually lose important beneficial substances in the process of filtration and pasteurization. On the contrary, handcrafted beers are intended for quick consumption, they retain all the important substances, and therefore are more popular. The long-lost history of beer in Kroměříž was followed by three microbreweries that now brew beer in Kroměříž – Černý Orel Brewery, Maxmilian Brewery and the 1st Rural Brewery.
The brewing right – i.e. the right to brew beer – was granted to Kroměříž in 1290 by the Olomouc bishop Dětřich of Hradec together with other privileges. Beer could be brewed by the city people, but only in some houses. In the 16th century, burghers with brewing rights agreed that it would be more economical to brew beer on a large scale, and an association was established that had a burgher brewery built in the place of today’s Prusinovský Street.
