Pilsner Urquell’s Russian Adventures

January 9th, 2008 by Evan Rail | 3 Comments

Pilsner Urquell’s Russian Adventures

The always-great Good Beer Blog has an interesting post from Alan on brewing under license and a recent article about the Pilsner Urquell which is brewed in Russia. Unlike Pilsner Urquell, Russian journalism doesn’t have such a great reputation, and this article seems more than a bit sensationalistic, starting out with the premise that Russian [...]


Help Wanted: Selling Budvar

December 17th, 2007 by Evan Rail | 5 Comments

Help Wanted: Selling Budvar

A few months ago, a friend mentioned that when he was just starting out as a young lawyer in the mid-1990s, he did some work at a law firm here in Prague. One of his projects back then was the contract for a possible sale of Budějovický Budvar to Anheuser-Busch.
That sale never went through, of [...]