The 450 shades of Pivo

By: Ipacs Tamás Date: 2022. 03. 29. 09:26

In the past 20 years some 450 Czech breweries opened and the number of those merely brewing lager beer is going slowly down. It has been a huge challenge also in Hungary to break through the ‘real Czech beer is lager beer’ stereotype, and to make consumers aware of the fact that Czech beer is no more a synonym for cheap beer.

Miklós Orvos
owner
Hetedik lépcső, Hrabal

A key player in the process has been Miklós Orvos, who opened a beer house in Budapest named after the famous Czech writer Bohumil Hrabal. The beer house sells draught beer from Czech regional and small-scale breweries. The place, however, is not just a simple beer house, but also a community space for guests longing for true cultural experience. Avid craft beer lovers are welcome in Hetedik Lépcső, a beer bar next door also operated by Miklós Orvos. The place specializes in Czech craft beers and offers a very wide selection that is regularly changing.

Regularly changing beer offer from eight taps

Two different inns next to each other and two different ways of positioning – isn’t it a great ‘game’, a real workshop for beer gourmets? And this beer-gastro-cultural galaxy built in nearly 15 years is further amplified by’Hetedik Lépcső’, a print magazine about Czech breweries, beers, beer festivals and gastronomy edited by György Vétek. //