The reviews below are misleading ! They are talking about the Pilsen Urquell brewery tour, NOT the Brewery museum.I read the reviews and went to the brewery museum first, because the reviews were very good. Big mistake !The brewery museum is ok, but don't spent too much time on it. The Pilsen Urquell brewery tour is very good, and by the end of the tour they will serve you unfiltered beer from the barrel!!!!
Throughout the various rooms you find various machinery of how traditional beer was produced, followed by a variety of cups and mugs and a 19th century bar setting. Included with the tour are tickets for beer sampling 1 330ml beer from 4 various restaurants
Tour was really nice. Apparently it ends with beer tasting of non filtered and non pasteurized Pilsner. Worth visiting :-)
This tour will not let you down. First you are going inside the newest factory premises were tons of beer are produced in front of your eyes and then you continue to huge boiling copper tanks, an underground maze with barrels filled with fresh beer and a comprehensive presentation of the beer history and so many other...We will probably visit it again if we get a chance...
Not much info in written history, suggest the audio guide might deliver the wow factor. Neat and free beer voucher made it even better. You can ask for dark beer when you claim voucher, don't just have to get a yellow pils. Underground was closed in FEB even though info on web made it seem open.
Very nice, but not as exciting as the big name breweries that are around in other areas. Nice gift shop, with courteous help. I am not a beer drinker but it was a nice tour.
The history of beer making in Pilsen presented in objects, models and pictures. Several exhibits have signs explaining what they are, but sometimes the English was difficult to understand (in a few cases direly mistranslated ... fortunately, I understand Czech). I wish they had audio guides available, it would make the experience much more enriching for younger visitors as well.
We were having a hard time deciding where to go, when me and my girlfriend were in Pilsen. We went to this museum, because it is high on the list here and kind of symbolic for the city. When we got there, we were told that the next and only tour with the guide is after hour and half waiting, so we went without the guide. That was obviously bad choice, because none of the exhibits had any information panels or anything like it. We just walked through three rooms with random stuff, which we learned nothing about. The tour took us about 15 minutes, so we did not waste much time, but the fee was too high for this. I do not know, why the museum is so high ranked, much more interesting is visiting the brewery itself.
Far more interesting is making a tour in the Pilsner Urquell Brewery. Very recommendable. You cannot leave Plzen without visiting this world famous brewery.
Urquell brewery offers a 110 minute English guided tour. Our guide was extremely efficient, so the tour was done in 80 minutes. To achieve this, she talked and walked fast, and left almost no time for questions. It was interesting to see how beer is made. Multimedia tour with cinema and interactive museum, also included an overview over the package area and the old brewery. A small taste of unfiltered beer was also included. Quite nice experience.