Pilsner Urquell 1929

Bürgerliches Bräuhaus Pilsen – Pilsner Urquell [Pilsner Urquell]
Berlin: Internationale Industrie-Bibliothek, 1929.

4to. 116 pp., of which approximately 91 pp. are full-page photographic illustrations. Original publisher's pictorial wrappers printed in red and white with the Pilsner Urquell emblem embossed on the front cover. Very good condition; small nick at spine, no loss, smudge on back cover., contents clean and well preserved.

An uncommon and visually striking photographic survey of the Bürgerliches Bräuhaus in Pilsen, the historic brewery responsible for Pilsner Urquell. Cpmbines a concise history of Bohemian brewing and the origins of Pilsner Urquell with an extensive photographic documentation of the brewery's facilities, production processes, cooperage, cellars, bottling operations, and workers. The numerous high-quality gravure photographs provide a remarkable record of industrial brewing in interwar Czechoslovakia and include views of the brewery complex, barrel manufacture and maintenance, fermentation and storage cellars, mechanized production equipment, and employees at work. In German.