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<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\nthe outlets of the ancient lautering tun<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Today, the Castle Brewery<\/a> in Cieszyn belongs to the \u017bywiec Brewery<\/a>, one of the largest brewing companies in Poland, which \u2013 in turn \u2013 is owned by Heineken<\/a>. It has specialized on brewing mainly two beers: The regional specialty \u201cBrackie\u201d, a light brown and tasty, non-pasteurized lager with a distinct metallic taste, and the \u201c\u017bywiec Porter\u201d, a pitch-black specialty with 9.5% alcohol \u2013 a beer that is a very typical representative of the old \u201cBaltic Porter\u201d style. Both varieties are brewed in almost century-old brewing kettles and fermented in open vessels. One of the brewing kettles has the special feature that it has a rectangular shape, instead of being round just like all other brewing kettles in the world \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n a brewing kettle with a rectangular shape<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n In particular the Porter goes through a very long lagering and maturing period. When it is ready to be bottled, it has already had a 120 days lager period \u2013 an unusual long time, especially taking into account the fact that the Bracki Brewery<\/a> is under strict control of the parent company in \u017bywiec. After this fermentation period, the beer is transported in large lorries to the mother company in \u017bywiec some 50 km away, where it is filled into bottles and cans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n During the time of our visit, we had the chance to taste the beers unfiltered, directly poured from the fermentation tank. The Brackie as well as the Porter have been offered to us in five-litre Erlenmeyer flasks \u2013 a fantastic taste and experience.<\/p>\n\n\n all installations are made from simple iron<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Once we got to the end, we were presented a carrier bag with a couple of glasses and bottles as a souvenir. It was a perfect excursion, an interesting tour through the brewery, and definitely worth the effort to drive 50 km by bus over here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Pictures<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Bracki Browar Zamkowy w Cieszynie Sp. z.o.o. Together with a group of Polish journalists, on 20th June 2009 I had the opportunity to visit Bracki Browar Zamkowy (Bracki Castle Brewery) in Cieszyn, close to the Polish-Czech border. Director Janusz Konieczny and Brewer Dominik Szczodry guided us through the ancient walls dating back to 1846, and both agreed […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25590,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,13,50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-25593","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bier-vor-ort","8":"category-brauereien","9":"category-polen-brauereien"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.brunnenbraeu.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.brunnenbraeu.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.brunnenbraeu.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.brunnenbraeu.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.brunnenbraeu.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25593"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.brunnenbraeu.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42779,"href":"https:\/\/blog.brunnenbraeu.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25593\/revisions\/42779"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.brunnenbraeu.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.brunnenbraeu.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.brunnenbraeu.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.brunnenbraeu.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Bracki](\"https:\/\/blog.brunnenbraeu.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Bracki-Browar-Zamkowy-w-Cieszynie-Mini-3.jpg\")
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