U Medvidku Pivovar (Brewpub), Prague, CZ, 2011

As in most brew pubs, the U Medvidku brewery is openly displayed to the public. To see it, though, or to drink the products, you have to go to the second (in European terms first) floor, as the ground floor is a more food-oriented pub that serves Budweiser Budvar beer and other more mainstream products. This kettle interests me somewhat as I don't know exactly what it's used for. Here I'll confess my ignorance of brewing. At first sight, it looks like an extremely old fashioned, pre-industrial copper kettle for brewing malt, but it looks too shallow for that. On the other hand, U Medvidku's output in very moderate. Note that here the kettle is empty.