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 (DIR) Post #AyvK7ZWTKhsrIQ55MW by CitizenWald@historians.social
       2025-10-06T03:44:20Z
       
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       5 October 1842 One of the greatest too-little-recognized days in the history of western civilization:#Czech and #German citizen-owned brewery in Pilsen (Plzeň) gives the world the gift of clear, unfiltered, unpasteurized Lager: Pilsner #beerhttps://english.radio.cz/underground-tour-pilsner-urquell-brewers-worlds-first-pale-lager-81484251/51/7
       
 (DIR) Post #AyvK7fPbR9xDYqugUK by CitizenWald@historians.social
       2025-10-06T03:44:26Z
       
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       Celebrating the anniversary of the first batch of Pilsner Urquell, 5 October 1842.I had the pleasure of visiting the brewery, taking a tour, and having a nice lunch there in the late communist era.If I cannot go to #Prague, let the Prague beer garden come to me!2/7
       
 (DIR) Post #AyvK7m12srTC2iTfgO by CitizenWald@historians.social
       2025-10-06T03:44:32Z
       
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       To be sure, some of the origins of #Pilsner #beer are clouded by urban legendhttp://www.beerculture.org/2012/09/19/on-the-founding-of-pilsner-urquell-mistakes/but the bottom line remains: Pilsner Urquell is among the world's greatest beers, and the originator of one of the world's greatest beer typesNa zdraví!3/7
       
 (DIR) Post #AyvK7rMV0WbMchYNJg by CitizenWald@historians.social
       2025-10-06T03:44:38Z
       
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       Admittedly, as any #Czech will tell you, fresh #Pilsner Urquell, fresh from "the tank" (z tanku) tastes far better than the bottled stuff we get over hereBut I will take what I can get and dream of better times#beer #Czechia #Czechoslovakia3/54/7
       
 (DIR) Post #AyvK7xPYW4bzNv1tui by CitizenWald@historians.social
       2025-10-06T03:44:43Z
       
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       Of course, the #Czechs gave us more than great beer#Czechia #Czechoslovakia #hockey #sportsI'll be most of you did not know that #Czechoslovakia was an early #hockey power in the 20th century (I did, because my father taught me well)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czechoslovakia_men%27s_national_ice_hockey_team5/7
       
 (DIR) Post #AyvK83jyz2W510dIaO by CitizenWald@historians.social
       2025-10-06T03:44:49Z
       
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       Naturally & regrettably, the #Nazis tried to appropriate & make the most of #Pilsner #beer: for the centennial, in the darkest days of the #occupation, following the brutal reprisals after the assassination of Reichsprotektor" Reinhard Heydrich by #Czechoslovak paratroopers6/7
       
 (DIR) Post #AyvK8AB92xoCyzO4ky by CitizenWald@historians.social
       2025-10-06T03:44:55Z
       
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       As if the #Nazi desecration of Pilsner were not enough:After centuries of cloudy, nasty beer, Plzeň in 1842 gave the world a clear, crisp lager--yet today, Americans celebrate vile "hazy" & "juicy" brewsHegel claimed, ‘reason rules the world." I beg to differ. I despair7/7