Plzensky Prazdroj’s Cool-Boxes with Tanks – Interesting Facts

• The very first modern cool-boxes with tanks in the Czech Republic were installed by experts from the Velke Popovice brewery at the Prague restaurant Letensky zamecek in 1994. At that time, they preceded their Pilsner competitor; however only a few years later they were given an opportunity to share their experience within the same company.
  
  
• When the new cool-boxes with tanks were being introduced, some pub owners had a conservative approach to them. Karel Hulata, the owner of the legendary pub U Zlateho tygra, first visited other pubs where cool-boxes with tanks had already been installed. After finding that the more modern system for beer storing and distribution would not affect the famous quality of his beer, he accepted the benefits of the new cool-boxes with tanks.
  
  
• Today, the bag-in-box system is also used by other breweries. Plzensky Prazdroj is the only brewery to spread this system on a large scale and complement it with an advanced technical service. A group of five trained technicians monitors compliance with the standards that must be observed by restaurants and pubs to use the bag-in-box system, as well as with technical service requirements and all legal requirements regarding pressure tank safety.
  
  
• The bag-in-box system is also used abroad. However, there is no other country where the system is as widespread and advanced as in the Czech Republic, which is due to Plzensky Prazdroj’s efforts. The reasons behind this phenomenon are the record-high beer consumption in the Czech Republic and the fact that in Bohemia and Moravia it is common to draw only one or a few beer brands.
  
  
• Cool-boxes with tanks located behind a glass wall are also an interesting element of a pub interior (e.g. U Zeleneho stromu, in Bredovsky dvur and Malostranska pivnice in Prague and in Kanadska pivnice in Zlin). Some pubs are aware of the competitive edge gained by using cool-boxes with tanks, which enable them to provide the best care for beer, and to inform their guests about the technology used.
  
  

The most important restaurants tapping beer from beer tanks (in the Czech Republic):

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

U Andela Prague OK Centrum Kanadska pivnice Sklenik U Rudolfina Masinka Malostranska Centrum Sklenik

Prague Jihlava Pardubice Zlin Karvina Prague Otrokovice Prague Orlova Neratovice

The cool-boxes with tanks are proof of the special care given by Plzensky Prazdroj to the beer-drawing and drinking culture. Another example of such efforts is the introduction of taps, developed by experts from Plzensky Prazdroj, who were inspired by a technology used in last century’s famous pubs. Yet another example is the education of pub owners and the recommendation to draw beer “right to the top”, which used to be a good habit in Bohemia:


“…and you discover that the pub owner actually loves you through the glass of Pilsner beer beautifully tapped right to the top …”

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