Hobo's Craft Czech Lager is a traditional lager-conditioned beer brewed in the Northern Bohemian town of Zatec 60km to the north-west of Prague. The town and region is renowned for the Saaz hop recognised as the perfect hop for lager conditioned beers. The brewery was built within the walls of the Zatec castle since 1801 and dovetails time-honoured brewing techniques with the best that modern brewing technology has to offer. Following the Velvet Revolution in 1989 life was breathed back into the brewery it was dusted down and led gently by the hand into the 21st century with the addition of crucial cutting-edge brewing equipment…..and some new stairs. However very little was touched within the brewery and fidelity to longstanding lager brewing principles steadfastly remain. Brewed using a double decoction mash (an intensive approach that gives the beer a fuller body) and three stages of Saaz hopping in copper kettles Hobo is fermented in open fermentation ‘squares' for 14 days before being transferred into horizontal lagering tanks sunk deep beneath the brewery back in 1835. Carved into the rock these cellars remain naturally cold and the temperature remains constantly chilly even though above it the climate can fluctuate from minus 20 degrees centigrade in the depths of winter to 35+ degrees during the scorching summer. Hobo beer matures and meditates for two months. The longer a lager can relax the better it will taste and in addition to the ingredients and the fermentation it's here where Hobo lager differs from mainstream mass-market lagers. Time equals taste.