Beer was so important to the Czech political economy at that time that knights and nobles fought for and won the right to brewbeer under a landmark royal decree in 1517.
The classic hall and beer garden rewards its pilgrims with an authentic German menu of spatzle, schnitzel, strudel and wurst, tall steins of brew and a long bottle beer list, and on Sunday afternoons, a live lederhosen-clad oompa band.