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...more beer per capita than any other nationality. In 1998 they quaffed around 170 qts. each, beating the Germans, who managed just 134 qts., into a poor second place. (Americans finished 13th, with 88 qts.) In a league of its own is the Czech Republic's most famous beer, Pilsner Urquell. The original bottom-fermented Pils, or lager, it was first brewed in the Bohemian city of Pilsen in 1842. "It's a Rolls-Royce among beers," purrs Pilsner spokesman Jaroslav Pomp...
...look who's behind the wheel now. The new owner of the world's most admired beer is South African Breweries, which last October bought a controlling interest in Pilsner Urquell and Radegast, the Czech Republic's two top brewers, from investment bank Nomura International in a $321 million deal. With it, SAB got the right to acquire Nomura's remaining stake by June 30, 2001, for $308 million. That makes SAB Central Europe's biggest brewer and vaults it into third spot worldwide, after Anheuser-Busch of the U.S. and Heineken of the Netherlands...
From the land of Pilsner comes an odd new export: dehydrated beer. Brewer Jan Oliva, who co-owns a malthouse in the Czech Republic town of Bruntal, says that when you add water to his beer powder and wait 10 days, you get a cool refreshment that "looks like beer, tastes like beer and has a head too ... It is beer, and a good one at that...
Allen Baler Oh that's easy. Pilsner Urquel is my favorite and...this one right here (reaches for the French...
DESCRIPTION: Definitions of lager, Pilsner, ale, porter and stout. Color illustration: Glass of beer...