Prague: Czech Beer Museum & Bottle Your Own Beer

You'll Bottle Your Own Beer in Prague's Medieval Cellars

You taste a welcome beer, tour the museum's exhibits and brewery model, descend into medieval cellars for three more Czech beers in the Beer Chapel, then bottle and label your own beer to take home. The whole experience runs 2 to 3 hours and includes all four tastings plus your bottled souvenir.

Step-by-step itinerary

Explore Czech beer history and tasting

• Start with welcome beer
• Tour beer history and secrets
• See brewery model and smell hops
• Taste three Czech beers in cellars
• Bottle and cork your own beer
• Create your own beer label

The experience

The brewmaster pours your welcome beer before the tour even starts, which caught me off guard. I'd expected a handshake and a map, not a glass in hand before nine in the morning. But that's how the Czech Beer Museum does it. You're standing in Prague's only beer museum, the biggest one in the country, and the first thing they want you to understand is that Czech beer isn't something you read about. It's something you taste while your senses are still waking up.

The tour moves through the museum's exhibits: historical artifacts, video presentations, a working brewery model that shows you exactly how malt becomes beer. You'll smell the hops and barley. A guide walks you through the secrets of Czech brewing, the history that goes back centuries, the techniques that made this country's beer reputation. It's not a long lecture. It's more like someone showing you their workshop and explaining what matters. Then you descend into the 13th-century cellars, which is where the real tasting happens. Three more Czech beers, served in what they call the Beer Chapel. A stone room that's been underground for seven hundred years.

And then comes the part that makes this different from any other beer museum you'd visit. You're not just tasting. You're bottling. You cork your own bottle, design your own label, and walk out with something you actually made. It's not complicated, but it works. You leave Prague with a beer souvenir that you bottled yourself, which is the kind of thing you actually remember.

What’s included

• Welcome beer poured by the brewmaster.
• museum entry and guided tour of exhibits, historical artifacts, and video presentations.
• brewery model demonstration.
• three additional Czech beer tastings served in the 13th-century Beer Chapel.
• bottling and corking your own beer.
• custom label creation.
• your bottled beer to take home.

Before you book

Days and timesEvery day

AgesAdult (18 to 85 years) · Under 18: can't be booked

GroupUp to 25

Audio guideEnglish, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Czech, Polish, Slovak and Ukrainian

Meeting point and pickupNo hotel pickup: you go to the meeting point. Ends back at the starting point.

Cancellation and refundsFree cancellation up to 24 h before the start. After that, no refund.

Prices and times updated 5 days ago

Good to know

Low physical effortPets welcomePublic transport nearby

Operated by New element s.r.o.

Is this one for you?Book this if you want to taste real Czech beer in the context of how it's made, and you'd rather not piece together a brewery visit and a souvenir on your own. The bottling at the end is what turns a tasting into something you'll actually remember.

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Top questions

What's included in the beer museum tour?

Four Czech beer tastings (one welcome beer before the tour, three more in the 13th-century cellars), the museum exhibits and brewery model, a guided tour of brewing history, and the chance to bottle and label your own beer at the end.

Can I bring children to the Czech Beer Museum?

Children can attend if accompanied by an adult, but the minimum drinking age is 18, so only adults can participate in the beer tastings and bottling.

How long does the tour take?

The experience runs 2 to 3 hours from start to finish.

Is the museum accessible by public transport?

Yes, public transportation options are available nearby.

What if I don't drink alcohol?

The tour centers on beer tasting and is designed around the four tastings, so it's built for participants who drink. Service animals are allowed throughout the museum.

Do I get to keep the beer I bottle?

Yes, you bottle and cork your own beer, create a custom label, and take it home as a souvenir from Prague.