"What type of beer takes its name from the German word for ""storage""?"
Beer in the Czech Republic Beer in the Czech Republic Beer () has a long history in what is now the Czech Republic, with brewing taking place in Břevnov Monastery in 993. The city of Brno had the right to brew beer from the 12th century while Plzeň and České Budějovice (Pilsen and Budweis in German), had breweries in the 13th century. The most common Czech beers are pale lagers of pilsner type, with characteristic transparent golden colour, high foaminess and lighter flavour. The Czech Republic has the highest beer consumption per capita in the world. The largest Czech beer breweries are Pilsner Urquell (Plzeňský
History of beer as the Saxons. It is disputed where the word originally comes from. Many other languages have borrowed the Dutch/German word, such as French "bière", Italian "birra", Romanian "bere" and Turkish "bira". The Nordic languages have "öl"/"øl", related to the English word "ale". Spanish, Portuguese and Catalan have words that evolved from Latin "cervisia", originally of Celtic origin. Slavic languages use "pivo" with small variations, based on a pre-Slavic word meaning "drink" and derived from the verb meaning "to drink". Chuvash "pora" its r-Turkic counterpart, which may ultimately be the source of the Germanic beer-word. History of beer Beer is one