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Beer Sherpa Recommends: Ún?tická 12°

The following post should be treated something like a public service announcement for travelers to the Czech Republic.  The beer I’m about to recommend can’t be had for any price in the US, and isn’t entirely easy to find even in Prague, near to where it is brewed.  And yet, should you find yourself in Prague, this is the beer you should seek.  Others might guide you to Klášterní Strahov or Kout na Šumavě (or any of a dozen or more reasonable candidates), and I enjoyed those, too–enormously.  But in the end, the one that kept calling out to me–the one that still calls out to me–is a 12° pale lager from a little brewery about 10 miles north of Prague.

The Únětický Pivovar is housed in a building where monks from Prague started brewing beer in 1710.  Brewing activities eventually stopped, but in 2010, local businessmen in the town of Únětice decided to turn it back into a brewery.  The first beers were brewed in 2011, and were instantly popular.  When I visited Prague back in 2012, Max

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