Budweiser Budvar. There is a trademark dispute between this company and the American version over which one is older. (Whichever one it is, the Czechs definitely have the better beer.)

Me looking at the street sign with the city of the brewery, Ceske Budejovice, written on it. Ceske Budejovice was three hours south of Prague.

Standing in front of the thousands and thousands of crates of Budweiser Budvar on the lot.

Budweiser Budvar gets their water from their own well, which goes down 300m (1000 feet)!

Some of the copper mixing kettles for the pre-beer mixture.

Our guide pouring some unpasteurized, unfiltered beer from the fermenting tanks for us to taste.

The bottling plant...this was an awesome building. Here the bottles are being put into 4-packs.

Another view of the bottling plant.

At the Budweiser Budvar pub, having a fresh beer poured for us.

Pivovarsky Dum, a microbrewery and restaurant. They brewed their own beer on the premises.

They also offered a "giraffe", a 4L column of beer with a built-in tap. (We couldn't drink all 4L so I took a picture of a nearby table.)

Trying strange beers at the restaurant. That's a lager, sour cherry, nettle, coffee, and another lager on the table. I'm drinking a banana beer.

Ricky working her way through her beer.

These mixing tanks were behind us, at the restaurant.

At the entrance to the large brewery complex in Plzen, which is one hour west of Prague. These two arches are pictured on every bottle of Pilsner Urquell.

Drinking a large beer outdoors.

Inside the visitor's center.

Ricky standing next to a wall displaying all the beers made by SABmiller, the parent company of Pilsner Urquell.

The brewing plant at Pilsner Urquell. Cleaner and more modern than Budweiser Budvar.

Their mixing kettles.

Entering the underground labrynths at Pilsner Urquell, where their beer ferments and ages.

One of the breweres offering me a taste of the beer directly from one of the tanks.

Drinking our fresh beer.

See, the two arches.