Czech Beer Festival (Czech: Český pivní festival) was the biggest beer festival in the Czech Republic, held for 17 days every year in May in Prague between 2008-2018.
No licensed photograph yet
Four in five rooms open without one. Add a photograph with a declared licence and your credit sits under it, permanently.
Czech Beer Festival (Czech: Český pivní festival) was the biggest beer festival in the Czech Republic, held for 17 days every year in May in Prague between 2008-2018.
01 · What it is
Living Tradition
Documented cultural tradition on record; family classification awaits an editor.
02 · Where & name
Czech Republic
Written in its own script on record as Český pivní festival.
03 · How it is doing
□□□□ (Not yet assessed)
Documented in open cultural records, but no cited field assessment of its current vitality has been added here yet.
04 · Proof & reuse
1 cited source
Every claim links to a public record below. Free to quote, teach, and share under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Common Questions Answered on Record
What is Czech Beer Festival in plain words?
Czech Beer Festival (Czech: Český pivní festival) was the biggest beer festival in the Czech Republic, held for 17 days every year in May in Prague between 2008-2018. In local script on record, it is written Český pivní festival.
Where is Czech Beer Festival practised or documented?
Sources on this page place Czech Beer Festival in Czech Republic.
What is the current condition of Czech Beer Festival today?
□□□□ (Not yet assessed): Documented in open cultural records, but no cited field assessment of its current vitality has been added here yet.
How do I cite or share this Czech Beer Festival entry?
Cite as: "Czech Beer Festival." folkroom, https://folkroom.org/art-forms/czech-beer-festival, text CC BY-SA, with attribution.
Czech Beer Festival (Czech: Český pivní festival) was the biggest beer festival in the Czech Republic, held for 17 days every year in May in Prague between 2008-2018.
The festival featured around 120 different beers, including 70 Czech brands and other foreign brews, for example those from the United States and the United Kingdom, with up to 10,000 seating capacity and service provided by around 200 girls and boys dressed in Czech traditional costumes.
British newspaper The Financial Times ranked the festival to be among 40 global events that you should visit in 2012. Formerly, visitors used a special currency, the Tolar, to pay for beer and food at the festival, later a magnetic cards, to which visitors can load any amount of cash.
The first smaller version of Czech Beer Festival outside the country was held in September 2010 in Frankfurt, the next year it also spread to Berlin and Moscow. The largest was in Moscow in the VDNKh park, with a capacity of 10,000 seats. In 2013 it also debuted in Chicago and New York.
The festival has been canceled in 2019 after a disagreement with the local government of Prague 7 (Praha sobě), and also with the Prague City Assembly (Piráti). The 2020 edition was not held due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the Czech Republic. It is unclear whether the festival will ever return. It has been then replaced by a similar event Prague Beer Fest, which focuses more on a smaller craft breweries.
The text above is adapted from the Wikipedia article “Czech Beer Festival”, available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 licence.
Czech Beer Festival is beer festival in the Czech Republic, according to the structured record cited below. This entry was generated automatically from that record and has not yet been reviewed by a person familiar with the tradition. 1
The source record links this tradition to 1 external register, which can be verified through the citation. 1