24.06.2008
Budvar’s Krausened Lager Is Request Beer At GBBF
Budweiser Budvar will be featuring its Krausened lager at the Great British Beer Festival this year thanks to some lobbying by beer writer Adrian Tierney Jones in his capacity as Secretary of the Guild of British Beer Writers.
“I was treated to a tasting of Budvar’s yeast beer on a recent trip to the brewery. The experience was sublime and I think more UK beer enthusiasts deserve the opportunity of getting acquainted with this most exquisite of ...
24.06.2008
Budweiser Budvar Reports Bumper Year
Figures issued by Budweiser Budvar show that sales increased faster in 2007 than the Czech market average in both domestic and export markets. In 2007 domestic sales reached 666,163 hl 11.7% more than the year before against a market growth of 0.5% whilst exports reached 586,885 hl. The highest volume achieved in the brewery’s history this represents a 5.7% year on year increase against the 1.6% increase achieved overall by Czech beer exports.
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16.06.2008
Budvar Bucks The Nose Diving PPL Trend
With the PPL market continuing to nose dive, the 8.4% volume loss Nielsen recorded for the months of February and March now running at 9.8%, Budweiser Budvar UK reports that for the fifth period running the Czech brand has completely bucked this trend. According to Marketing Manager Ian Moss the brand has been consistently showing a par volume performance over “a period of unprecedented difficulty for the beer industry in general and PPL sector in particular”.
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27.05.2008
The Budvar Position If InBev Buys AB, A View By Tony Jennings, CEO, Budvar UK
The purchase of AB, owners of Budweiser by InBev would only be relevant to Budweiser Budvar if the Czech Government divested itself of Budvar – and most commentators in the know on the Czech Political scene would tell you that this is still light years away. In fact if the InBev-AB deal does happen it would be likely to have the effect of swinging Czech public opinion even further behind growing demands to keep the Budweiser Budvar brewery safe in the hands of the Czech state.
08.05.2008
MA Budvar Brewed Jazz Hits A High Note At Cheltenham
Newcomer to the Cheltenham Jazz Festival scene this year (April 29-May 5) was the MA’s Budvar Brewed Jazz programme to find the UK’s best pub jazz bands. Promoting pub-based talent at this major event in the calendar of jazzers world wide, the play off between the three finalist bands in the competition took place at Cheltenham’s Kandinsky Hotel, one of the celebrated hang outs of some of the world’s jazz greats.
Like the Cheltenh...
17.04.2008
Ancient water a winner for Budvar
Apr 11 2008 by Alastair Gilmour, The Journal
WHEN 97% of your ingredients has been percolating, seeping, filtering and circulating for 10,000 years, 90 more days sitting in a metal tank is possibly neither here nor there. That final resting place, however, is a crucial phase in the fermentation and maturation of one of the world’s greatest beers.
Budweiser Budvar’s water is drawn from an Ice Age lake lying 350 metres below the brewery in Ceske Budejovice, South Bohemia, in the Czech Republic. It has a near-perfect co...
15.04.2008
JOSEF TOLAR, BUVAR’S REVOLUTIONARY AND BREW MASTER WILL BE FIRST CZECH JUDGE AT GBBF’s CHAMPION BEER OF BRITAIN EVENT
One of Central Europe’s best known brewers, Josef Tolar, Brewmaster of the iconic Czech Budweiser Budvar Brewery, becomes the first brewer from this part of the world to be a member of the judging panel for the annual Champion Beer of Britain event held at the Great British Beer Festival.
Describing himself as honoured by the appointment he doesn’t see anything incongruous in a brewer who has spent his career brewing lager conditioned beers sitting in judgement on the UK&r...
15.04.2008
To Hell And Back With Budvar
Just another souvenir of a visit to the Budweiser Budvar brewery? Not on your life- this is a picture of a band of brothers (so to speak) celebrating completing a visit to the Budweiser Budvar brewery last Friday (April 11) in the face of almost impossible odds. The impossible odds being damaged wheels on a Czech Airlines plane which necessitated another set being flown from the Czech Republic and fitted before the party could leave Heathrow. This meant being trapped at Heathrow’s...
15.04.2008
Beers Writers Chairman Describes Press Trip To Brewery As “Best Ever”
05.03.2008
Old Carrock Makes A Czech Mate with Budvar
North West's Micro Breweries Favour Budvar Original and Dark
Two months ago the Old Crown, in Hesket Newmarket, listed both draught Budweiser Budvar Original and Dark. For anybody who knows their real ales the epic significance of this event is immediate. If you don’t then know that the Old Crown, located on the Northern edge of the Lake District national park, is Britain’s first co-operatively owned pub serving some of the finest real ales to be fo...
20.02.2008
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Budvar Combats Branded Glass "Shrinkage" With New Pocket PoS
Budweiser Budvar’s new branded glassware has been proving so irresistible to drinkers that the number of pieces going home with them after a visit to pub or bar has reached proportions requiring creative measures to counter serious on-going glass shrinkage. Now Budvar UK hope they have found the answer in a diversionary range of pocketable-PoS .
Expressing himself to be in some ways delighted with drinker enthusiasm for carrying Budvar branding back to th...