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A bitter beer from the Moravian Beskydy Mountains, named after the Slavic god of hospitality. Triple hopping with three Czech hop varieties gives it a distinctive hop aroma and bold bitterness that had to fight its way to beer lovers back in 1970. Today it is one of the best-selling ten-degree beers in the Czech Republic — honest, uncompromising and unmistakable.
1970first batch brewed on 3 December in Nošovice
3Czech hops in one beer (Žatecký červeňák, Sládek, Žatecký pozdní)
50 000visitors per year at the brewery
The story of Radegast began in the 1960s, when northern Moravia was desperately short of beer. Factories and thirst were both growing in the industrial region, so the decision was made to build a new brewery in Nošovice using water from the Beskydy reservoir Morávka. The name was chosen by the public in a 1969 competition — it could have been Rumcajs or Magdon, but the Slavic god of hospitality Radegast won. When the first brewmaster Jaromír Franzl brewed the very first batch on 3 December 1970, he deliberately made it significantly more bitter than was customary in the Czech lands. To defend his bold choice, he presented two samples for tasting — one bitter and the other even sweeter than the beers of the time. The beer lovers chose bitterness, and thanks to it Radegast built an unmistakable character that has endured to this day.
