Brewery Nature Trail

Brewery Nature Trail combines the history of the royal mining town of Jihlava with the story of one of the many original crafts — malting and legal brewing. However, it cannot be separated from the history of the city itself and its life. Therefore, the trail is made special by historical events and interwoven with tasting stories from the lives of ordinary citizens.

You can learn about the tradition of brewing beer in Jihlava on twelve infodesks. The first stop is at the Pieta statues near the City Park shopping center. From there the trail leads to the historic building of the Jihlava Brewery. The route does not forget important historical events such as the occupation of Jihlava by the Swedes.

The number of breweries in which the owners of law houses could alternate — i.e. “in turn” — to brew beer, has varied in the city in different centuries. As a rule, each of the four districts of the inner city had between 1 and 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 brewing boom) we know eight of them. At the beginning of the 19th century there were five of them operating in Jihlava: one smaller (U Mincovny 3) and four larger ones: in Brnenská 15, the now demolished building in Mrštíkova Street, another in Palacký 19 and probably the most extensive brewery in Husov 3. By the 1st third of the 19th century the smaller brewery became extinct. Beer was brewed in the remaining four breweries until the turn of the 1850s and 1860s, 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 December 13, 2013.

If you want to walk the brewery trail with a guide and end it in style with a beer tasting in one of the Jihlava breweries, we invite you to a guided walk along the Brewery Trail with tasting. Follow the current offer of the term in the Events Calendar.

You can also take advantage of the offer of excursions to the Ježek Brewery.

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