Czech Republic: barrel production at the Pilsner Urquell brewery in Pilsen

Pilsner Urquell maintains a rare and historically significant tradition with its eight-person team of coopers, a craft dating back to 1842. The brewery, which once employed 150 coopers to manage hundreds of thousands of oak barrels, is now probably the only one in the world still practicing this profession. The coopers are essential to maintaining the brewery’s historic cellars, where the famous Pilsner lager ferments and matures The article Cze…