Dish · 5 kitchens in 3 cities
Beer
Beer brewed in the house — Czech lagers, Polish Grodziskie, Brussels lambic.
Nobody paid to be here. Each kitchen is described from its own menu where it publishes one, unranked, so each note says how that kitchen makes it.
No kitchen in London sends this yet. Here is where we would send you.
In Prague
Světlý ležák 12
Pivovar U Bulovky · Libeň · ~Kč 100 pp
Světlý ležák, the Czech pale lager, bottom-fermented and brewed by the family's own brewery. With the pub's lunch of the day beside it.
This version: Světlý ležák 12, a bottom-fermented Czech lager brewed by the Richters.
Pick it if: You're in Libeň, or after a family-run brewery pub.
Vinohradská 12
Vinohradský pivovar · Vinohrady (Korunní) · ~Kč 150 pp
A golden Pilsner-style lager brewed in the house
A golden Pilsner-style lager with Žatec hops. The first glass.
This version: Vinohradská 12, a double-decoction lager from Pilsner and Munich malts.
Pick it if: You're in Vinohrady and want the method set out in full.
Dark Lager
Pivovar Strahov · Hradčany (Strahov Monastery) · ~Kč 150 pp
A dark lager, all malt with Saaz hops, unfiltered and unpasteurised, brewed on the premises. The house's most decorated beer, and the one we'd start with.
In Brussels
Gueuze
Cantillon · Anderlecht (Cureghem) · ~€9 pp
A blend of lambic beers of different ages, fermented again in the bottle
Gueuze, lambics of different ages from oak casks, tasted barrel by barrel, blended and left a year in the cellar to ferment again in the bottle. The visit ends with lambic, gueuze and a fruit beer side by side, and the gueuze is the glass that explains Brussels.
In Warsaw
Grodziskie
Browar Warszawski · Wola (Browary Warszawskie) · ~zł 45 pp
Grodziskie, a pale Polish wheat beer, light and very fizzy, once called Polish champagne. Brewed in the house, and the glass we'd start with.