Prague’s bar scene is more than just perfectly poured pints of Czech lager, though there’s plenty of that, too.

This city is no lager hoppy go lucky. Prague has banned organized nighttime pub crawls, as the popular after-hours pastime raked in cash for bars but wreaked havoc for residents and local authorities.

Thanks to a landscape unusually well-suited to growing hops, the Czech Republic has been home to a potent brewing tradition for more than a millennium. Monks were the country’s brewing pioneers; later ...

The Czechs are known as the heaviest beer drinkers in the world. Beer prices have skyrocketed over the past five years in Prague. But local pubs, especially those with long histories in their ...

On a blustery Sunday evening in March, a throng of Prague cocktail devotees stood outside Alma, waiting for space to open in the jam-packed dining room. The restaurant, in the city’s New Town, always ...

TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY JAN FLEMR Czech Budweiser beers leave the production line at the Budejovicky Budvar brewery on January 22, 2010 in Ceske Budejovice, southern Bohemia. Czechs have kept their ...