Velkopopovický Kozel

Velkopopovický Kozel is a Czech beer brand. The beer is brewed in the brewery Velké Popovice.

The Velkopopovický Kozel is one of the lagers and is traditionally bright as light or dark Czech lager beer in the variants, dark and premium brewed.

The distinguishing feature of the beer is a humanoid goat who accompanied proceeds with a bulging beer mug. This gives the beer its name because " kozel " means in Czech goat. The beer is usually simply referred to in the Czech Republic and Slovakia as " Kozel ". In German it is also known as " Großpopowitzer goat ".

Brewery Velké Popovice

The brewery was founded under the name Großpopowitzer brewery in 1871 by the Grand entrepreneur Franz Ringhoffer II in Velké Popovice southeast of Prague. 1874, the first beer was brewed. In 1875, the brewery has already supplied 18,000 hectoliters of beer. 1945, the company was nationalized and shortly thereafter with others in the group Středočeské pivovary ( Central Bohemian Breweries ) together. In 1991 the brewery gained independence again and was converted into a corporation in 1992. 1995 the majority of shares of the company got the Radegast brewery AG. Radegast merged Pilsner Urquell 1999. Today the Velké Popovice brewery is one of the three breweries the company Pilsner Urquell.