The brewery educational trail combines the history of the royal mining town of Jihlava and the story of one of the many original crafts – malting and brewing. However, it cannot be separated from the history of the city itself and its life. That is why the trail is enriched by historical events and interwoven with a taste of stories from the lives of ordinary citizens.
You can learn about the tradition of brewing beer in Jihlava on twelve information boards. The first stop is at the piety sculpture near the City Park shopping center. From here the trail leads to the historic building of the Jihlava brewery. The route does not neglect important historical events such as the occupation of Jihlava by the Swedes.
The number of breweries in which the owners of brewing houses could alternately – i.e. "on a rotation" basis – brew beer in the city varied over the centuries. As a rule, each of the four districts of the inner city had 1 to 2 breweries. For example, in the 15th century there were four breweries in Jihlava, but in the 16th century (at the time of the greatest boom in brewing) we know eight of them. At the beginning of the 19th century, there were five of them in Jihlava: one smaller (U Mincovny 3) and four larger ones: in Brněnská 15, today a demolished building in Mrštíkova Street, another in Palackého 19 and probably the largest brewery in Husova 3. By the 1st third of the 19th century, the smaller brewery ceased to exist. The remaining four breweries brewed beer until the turn of the 50s and 60s of the 19th century, when a new, modern brewery was built. Its foundation opened a new chapter in the history of Jihlava brewing.
The Brewery Educational Trail was inaugurated in the Jihlava brewery on 13 December 2013.
If you want to walk the brewery trail with a guide and finish it in style with a beer tasting in one of Jihlava's breweries, we invite you to a guided walk Brewery Trail with tasting. Follow the current offer of the date in the Calendar of Events.
You can also take advantage of the offer of excursions to the Ježek Brewery.
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