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Czech Beer Festival will be held in Prague

Misted glass with sparkling drops of liquid rolling down on mouth-watering curves, luxurious foam cap of the amber drink with a warm aroma of malt and noble hops - what could be better than an ice mug of beer on a lovely sunny day? Only beer festival in the Czech capital, Prague!

For 17 long days in May, one of the most intoxicating European festivals, holiday of beer, gastronomy, fun and new meetings, "Czech Beer Festival", will be held in one of the beer capitals of Europe, the golden beautiful Prague in Exhibition Centre Prague Letnany Exhibition Centre.

Exhibition space of the Letnany expo center, which will host the IV Czech Beer Festival, will be divided into several tents, where will accommodate up to 10,000 guests, as well as the representatives of the best Czech breweries offering the most famous varieties of intoxicating beverage for tasting. The beer tent number 1 will present following breweries: Regent Třeboň, Bakalář Rakovník, Nymburk, Žatec, Ferdinand, Kout, Žamberk, Beroun, Dobruška, Zvíkov, Purkmistr and Permon. Beer tent number 2 will provide for tasting the best beer of the following Czech breweries: Černá hora, Jihlavský ježek, Klášter, Rychtář Hlinsko, Lobkowicz Vysoký Chlumec, Janáček Uherský Brod and Platan Protivín.

In the third tent tourist can try heady drink produced by such famous breweries of the Czech Republic as Březňák, Krušovice, Zlatopramen, Starobrno, Hostan, Louny, Dačický, Zlatý Bažant, Svijany, as well as microbreweries Lipan, Chýně, Malostránský pivovar, Rybičky, Pacov and Kocour. In total visitors of the Czech Beer Festival in Prague will be presented for tasting more than 70 original varieties of delicious Czech beer of the highest quality.

In addition to the excellent beer, visitors of the Czech beer festival are offered a variety of entertainment and many gastronomic delights from the best Prague’s Czech cuisine restaurants. Visitors of the Czech beer festival will be served by 200 waiters dressed in national Czech costumes.

The official currency of the Czech Beer Festival in Prague will be the beer Toler, which can be exchanged for a glass of icy beer, aromatic dishes of the Czech cuisine and unique souvenirs. The cost of one Toler is 44 CZK (little less than 2 euros) and is equal to 1 mug of beer.

One of the good news for the visitors of the Czech beer festival in Prague will be cancellation of entrance fee (120CZK last year). The festival organizers recommend reserving places at the festival in advance.

The festival will take place at Prague Letnany Exhibition Centre: Beranovych 667, Praha 9 - Letnany. Hotels and apartments in Prague can be booked online on www.czech-netz.com with immediate confirmation of your reservation.

Date: 11/03/2011