Flooding in Pilsen area causes beer to dry up

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from the Real Beer Site, http://www.realbeer.com/news/articles/news-001754.html
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Budvar production resumes
Flooding forces Budejovicky Budvar to briefly close

AUG 16, 2002 - Production of Budvar Budweiser -- known in the United States as 
Czechvar -- is has resumed after the brewery quit brewing for a few days 
because of the deluge that flooded much of the Czech Republic. 

Budejovicky Budvar shut down operations Tuesday when large parts of the town 
of Ceske Budejovice, 90 miles south of Prague, were flooded, officials said. 

"The brewery was without steam and electricity," spokeswoman Denisa Mylbachrova 
said. She also said that the brewery had never before experienced such troubles.
 
Although part of the brewery was flooded, it escaped significant damage, she said. 

Budejovicky Budvar was founded in 1895 in Ceske Budejovice, called Budweis by 
the German-speaking people that populated the area at the time. Beer has been 
brewed there since 1265.

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