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Sourcing our own ingredients, we produces our own malt in the malthouse in Rajhrad, a village near Brno. We use the traditional floor malting method. It is difficult and expensive, but it is the best for true Czech lager.
We cultivate our own fresh yeast right in our brewery in Humpolec.
Our water is sourced from our wells having ideal properties for brewing beer.
The best varieties of Czech hops give our beer the right taste and bitterness.
The most important ingredient in Bernard beer is love and honest craft. Excellent and honest beer and good relations are more important to us than production size and profit.

We brew beer our way using the best ingredients and with love for the craft.
While using modern technology, we honour traditional procedures as well. Handcraft being an essential element of our beer production.

Through hard work and careful brewing processes, we use double mash method, hopping is done in four batches, and the main fermentation and maturation in the storage cellar are kept separate.

It takes some time for the brewed beer to get to you. First it ferments and then matures in our cellars for several weeks or months. The beer develops crispness, colour and full body in our storage tanks.
It is time consuming but through. The philosophy of Bernard beer making.

When our beer is fully mature, it is filtered using a special microbial filter that traps all microorganisms. Filtration does not change the taste or colour of the beer, nor does it destroy nutrients, vitamins or minerals.
The Bernard Family Brewery does not pasteurise its lagers.
Making this a unique and authentic beer.

The Bernard Family Brewery does things differently. It has been a trail blazer leading the way in the industry.
The people working at the brewery are tenacious in their pursuit of one ideal: to brew the best, authentic Czech beer, build a cult brand and develop good relationships with customers as well as with one another.