Jon Searles' photos with the keyword: U Medvidku

This is the fermentation tank at U Medvidku. Note that it's wooden and open.

Here are two more industrial-era closed copper kettles, even if they are small. The all-paper office is a nice historical touch too, even if it appears to be fully operational (with a 1990's era phone, from the looks of it).

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.

Another brewpub in Prague, almost as famous as U Fleku, is U Medvidku. U Medvidku is mostly known for their X33 dark beer, supposedly the most powerful beer in the world (although 33 indicates 33 degrees Plato, rather than 33% alcohol). However, a milder, and far cheaper option is Old Gott, seen here. My understanding is that the name is a pun in several respects, referencing "God" in German, but also, probably, the now-geriatric Czech pop star Karel Gott.