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Dave and I wandered to the old city square to find some food. We stopped in a little restaurant off of the main city square that advertised the local beer: Pilsner Urquell. Each restaurant that we passed by had a sign outside for what beer they served. This has to be the tastiest soup ever! really. it is. I kept seeing Garlic Soup on the menu in Germany and I decided to give it a try finally while in Pilsen. I was not disappointed. Our whole meal was about 280 CZK which is only $14, which is awesome for two main dishes a soup and two .5 liters of beer!

While planning our trip we noticed a city called Pilsen on our way to Prague from Nuremburg. Immediately we thought of pilsner beer. We looked up the city of Pilsen on Wiki Travel and sure enough, it is the home of Pilsner Beer! If you know us well, you know that we like our beer.

We took a tour of the Pilsner Urquell Brewery. Pilsen was the birthplace of Pilsner beer, the first beer that you could see through. Beer before the Pilsner was invented in 1842 was dark beer. The tour lasted about 2 hours and took us through the many stages of beer. I had been to the Anchor Steam Brewery in San Francisco last year and I had high hopes for the tour.

My hopes were squashed like a fly swatted by a fly trap.

This tour was not even close to being on par with the Anchor Steam tour. For one, we had to pay! The tour cost 150 czk each ($7.50)! Our english tour guide was very hard to understand, and he had a very monotone voice. Oh yeah, and they made you pay to take photos. I didn’t pay knowing that the brewery tour couldn’t be earth shatteringly interesting that I would die if I didn’t have photos of it. One last thing, bring a jacket if you decide to go on it. We drank our ONE beer in a 40 degree cellar where we were stuck in the cold for about 30 minutes. I was wearing shorts.

All in all, even after the boring brewery tour, I enjoyed Pilsen. The architecture in the town square is worth the trip alone.

This church boasts the highest tower in the Czech Republic.

Look at that sky! It was really rainy on Tuesday evening in Pilsen. We got some really cool skies out of it though!

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