Beer Infinity Beer, Brewing & Beyond
| Right when the Czech Beer Festival is coming to an end, there will be in Prague three beer festivals at three successive weekends.
The first one starts this Friday, Pivo na Naplavce. It looks quite good – a nice venue on the embankment on the right bank of the Vltava, and fairly interesting list of breweries – until you notice the hidden admission fee. They say entrance is free, but only provided you don’t want to drink anything. Beers will not served in plastic cups, nor in any container you might bring, but only in the festival’s 0.3l glass mugs, which. The one with a logo will set you back a whopping 200CZK, or you can pay 60CZK for a marketingly handicapped one, and 20CZK more if you want the festival’s catalogue and beermat, or something like that. Even though I don’t mind drinking from plastic cups (in fact, I sometimes even prefer it for the sake of convenience), I can understand and accept a non-plastic policy, and not only for the reasons given by the organisers, but why can’t … |
Source: Beer Philosopher
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