The Czech Republic: SABMiller’s Radegast brewery to launch its first special beer

For the first time in its history, the Radegast brewery brewed something besides the traditional beer on tap and lager - a special beer, the brewer’s parent company SABMiller reported on December, 16.

Radegast Extra Bitter will be launched on the market next January and will be available until the end of March all over Moravia in pubs and restaurants, as well as in half-litre bottles in stores, the company said.

The Radegast brewery, one of the most modern breweries in Czech Republic, has been brewing beer since 1970.

Since 1999, Radegast brewery is part of the largest beer conglomerate in Czech Republic, belonging to Plzeňský Prazdroj, a.s.

Yearly, it produces more than 2.2 million hectolitres of beer, with the help of approximately 270 employees.

Radegast brewery is part of Plzeňský Prazdroj, which with its total sale of 10.5 million hectolitres of beer in 2009 and with exports into more than 50 countries around the world, is one of the leading beer producers in Central Europe. Plzeňský Prazdroj is also the largest exporter of Czech beer.

22 December, 2010