Czech beer is mainly lager or dark lager, and Pilsner Urquell is one of the most famous of them. It has unique Czech smell, taste and aftertaste, which is different than those lagers brewed in my home country Finland. There have been active beer brewing (in commercial breweries) about a thousand years in Czech, and nowadays the Czech have the highest beer consumtion in the world per capita. It is fair to say that Czech people really are living in a beer culture. In Czech, as in other parts of Christian Europe, many monasteries brewed beer earlier from wheat, but in the 1900th century malted barley became the dominant grain in beer brewing.
Czech have grown their own unique hops for a long time and also exported them, as well as their beers, for hundreds of years. Czech beer could be called the basis of modern lager beers throughout the world. I actually don't nowadays like very much their dark lager, because they are often quite sweet because of added sugar and/or syrup. Golden lagers as this one are better and I usually prefer them over Finnish (bulk) lagers. There is a certain bitterness in Czech lager, which I think comes from the Czech hops, and I really like it.
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