Basařová, G. - Kosař, K. :
The Most Famous Era of Czech Brewing.

The most famous era of brewing in the territory of the contemporary Czech Republic was the epoch at the turn of the 19th and 20th century, when the industrial production of malt and beer began to develop and czech brewing has influenced to significant extent the development of this branch all over the world. During this period breeding of excellent malt barley and hop varieties were specialized on the production of malting and brewing machinary. In malting technology modern pneumatic principals began to again ground and since the middle of 19th century beer has been produced in all czech and moravian breweries exlusively by bottom fermentation, since the year 1885 with application of pure yeast cultures. Raw materials, technological machinary and czech beer were to large extent exported to the whole world. To considerable extention a profound tradition in education of university (since the year 1818) and secondary experts (since the year 1868), original brewing research (since the year 1887), establishment of brewing associations and edition of expert journals.