Brew-house

Sumava brew-house upholds the traditions of brewing in Vimperk, which started together with founding the Vimperk castle and Vimperk mansion in the 13th century and was disrupted in the year 1967.

Unfiltered and unpasterized beer without any artificial ingredients and preserving agents is produced directly in the restaurant where cookers are placed and in a neighbouring cellar where you can find stock tubs and other equipment.

Technology

The cookers are stainless with cooper sheeting, volume of 2 hl, with electric warming. Fermentation takes place in a traditional open fermenting cellar and then beer matures in lager barrels forseveral weeks.

Basic assortment and recipes follow traditional procedures of brewing Czech deep fermented lager:

• ŠP Vimperk Lager
• ŠP Vimperk Semiporter
• ŠP Vimperk Dark porter

Some special kinds of beer are produced, too. Though the recipes are trade secrets you can learn more at a brewery excursion.

The equipment and technology for the brew-house has been supplied by firm PIVO Praha, Ltd.
The head brewer is Oldřich Koza, the brewer is Michael Neuwirth.
The author of the Šumavský pivovar logo is Karel Míšek.

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