page_title: Libočany
section_title: Beer
hierarchical_section_title: Libočany / Beer
caption_attribution_description: English: Libočany brewery where so called Liebotschaner Beer was brewed and exported to the USA. Deutsch: Postkarte mit der Brauerei Liebotschan
context_page_description: Libočany is a village in Ústí nad Labem Region, Czech Republic. It lies near the town of Žatec on a bank of the Ohře River, by the mouth of the small tributary Liboc River. It is famous for Václav Hájek z Libočan, the most renowned Czech chronicler of Baroque times, who was probably born there.
context_section_description: The brewery from the 19th century produced beer even for US trade with a stock in New York. The Liebotschaner Beer was among four Bohemian beer brands exported to the USA (the others were Pilsner Urquell, Budweiser Bier, and Michelob). The latter place, as well as Liebotschan, are located in the Saaz hops region, and bear Czech language names since 1918. Several local American breweries have produced beer under the name of the former Austrian village, or abbreviated to Lieb (e.g. Chattanooga Brewing Co. in Tennessee, Stegmaier Brewing Company, or Lion Brewery, Inc., Wilkes-Barre in Pennsylvania; Genesee's Liebotschaner Beer was pronounced best of Rochester's post repeal brews in 1932
  The production of beer in Libočany ended after World War I when the Austrian Empire was dissolved and Czechoslovakian authorities took over. The buildings of the brewery were demolished in 1939. After World War II, in socialist Czechoslovakia, it was replaced by a collective farm.
caption: The "Liebotschan Brauerei" brewery in 1906
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