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Locals and Tourists

My latest All About Beer post is up–a survey of five Prague pubs to visit that will get you up to speed on the current moment in Czech brewing.  This is how I framed my choices:

But if you happen to have the good fortune to visit you’ll find one of the easiest cities in the world to navigate, a feast for the eyes and surprisingly cheap travel. And within two days, the scales will have fallen from your eyes and your entire understanding of Czech beer will have blossomed.

In any town with as many drinking holes as Prague, there is always going to be room for disagreement.  And indeed, on Facebook, a Praguer (please tell me residents of Prague are Praguers) lodged his complaints:

U Fleku is full of tourists. Which is not always a bad thing. But in this case it’s full of tourists because no locals would ever go there. The single beer they serve is nice enough, but it’s ridiculously overpriced, and totally not worth the money…

Strahov is okay for a brief visit on the way past, but

Source: Beervana

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