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💡 The Short Version: The Pilsner Urquell Experiencead, a museum and tasting by Můstek, is the beer product with the reviews: 4,160 reviews at 4.7 stars, 579 CZK at the door and from £18.15 on GetYourGuide, with two beers included. For a guided tasting, the Czech Beer-Tasting Experience with Snacksad is 90 minutes from £25.56. To see a working brewery, take the train to Plzeň, where the Pilsner Urquell brewery tour is 430 CZK. A beer spa is a spa, not a tour, and costs from £67.31. Staropramen’s visitor centre is the cheapest, from £10.65, and the lowest rated, at 3.7 stars. Prices are GetYourGuide’s lowest “from” prices and move with the date.
The beer experiences, compared
| Experience | From | What it is |
|---|---|---|
| Pilsner Urquell Experiencead | £18.15 to £20.17 | 60 to 90 minutes in a beer museum, with two beers in a beer hall |
| Tapster Academy at the Pilsner Urquell Experiencead | £36.54 | A 1-hour class in pouring a Pilsner, with a certificate |
| Czech Beer-Tasting Experience with Snacksad | £25.56 | 1½ hours, seven beers with cheese and crackers, shared or private |
| Beer Museum tour with bottlingad | £20.45 | A museum with a welcome beer, four samples and your own bottle |
| Self-pour tasting at Beer Pointad | £17.42 | 14 taps and a card with a beer credit |
| Brewery tour with unlimited tastingsad | £84.35 | 3 hours, three mini-breweries and at least nine beers |
| 3-hour microbrewery tourad | £54.53 | 3½ hours, three microbreweries and 11 beers on foot and by tram |
| Staropramen Brewery self-guided tourad | £10.65 | 1 hour in the visitor centre in Smíchov, with a tasting |
| Pilsner Urquell brewery tour, Plzeňad | £15.34 | 100 minutes in the working brewery, 1 hour 20 minutes by train |
| Bernard Beer Spaad | £116.73 for up to two | 1 hour in a private beer bath with unlimited beer |
The Pilsner Urquell Experience
From £18.15 (usually £20.17) · 4.7 stars from 4,160 reviews · 60 to 90 minutes
Prague: Pilsner Urquell Experience & Beer Tastingad, run by The Original Experience Company, is Pilsner Urquell’s beer museum at 28. října 377/13, by Můstek metro. The Original Tour runs from the history of beer through the brewing process to the Beer Hall, where two more beers are poured by tapsters; the two beers or soft drinks are in the price. It is open every day from 11:00 to 20:30 except Christmas Day and New Year’s Day, with the last entry 90 minutes before closing. Children can join the Original Tour but are served two soft drinks, because beer is served only to guests aged 18 or over. It is a museum: the beer is brewed in Plzeň.
The operator’s own site (pilsnerexperience.com) sells the same tour and four others, and two of them are not on GetYourGuide:
| Experience | Own price (CZK) | GetYourGuide |
|---|---|---|
| The Original Tour | 579 | From £18.15 |
| Tapster Academy, about 60 minutes | 1,049 | From £36.54 |
| Beer Sommelier lunch or dinner | 1,990 | From £69.32 (Beer Sommelier Experience, 1½ hours) |
| The Original Tour and Tapster Academy, 2 to 2½ hours | 1,460 (list price 1,628) | Not sold |
| The Original Tour and a traditional Czech lunch | 899 (list price 1,018) | Not sold |
| The Original Tour and a Prague river cruise | 1,029 | Not sold |
Other tastings in Prague
Czech Beer-Tasting Experience with Snacks
From £25.56 · 4.7 stars from 801 reviews · 1½ hours
Prague: Czech Beer-Tasting Experience with Snacksad, by Prague Beer Tours & Tastings, is a guided tasting of seven beers: three from large Czech breweries and four from Prague microbreweries, with Hermelín, a Czech cheese, and crackers. You choose a shared group or a private tasting, and the guide teaches the rules of tasting beer.
Czech Beer Museum
From £20.45 · 4.4 stars from 486 reviews
Prague: Beer Museum Tour with Tasting and Beer Bottlingad, at the Czech Beer Museum, begins with a welcome beer poured by the brewmaster. It passes a model of a brewery, the 13th-century cellars and the Beer Chapel, where two more beers are served, and you bottle, cork and label your own beer. The price includes entry and four beer samples.
Beer Point, self-pour
From £17.42 · 4.6 stars from 341 reviews
Prague: Self-Pour Czech Beer-Tasting Experiencead is a pub with 14 Czech craft beer taps. You receive an NFC card with a beer credit, read each beer’s description in your chosen language and pour your own, and the card also pays for pub food such as burgers and fries.
Staropramen Visitor Centre
From £10.65 · 3.7 stars from 2,399 reviews · 1 hour
Prague: Staropramen Brewery Self-Guided Tour with Tastingad is a self-guided tour of the interactive exhibition on the Smíchov site, which runs from the brewery’s foundation in 1869 to the present. It ends with a tasting of four Staropramen beers or a drink. GetYourGuide says the brewery where the beer is made is not open to visitors, and its review summary gives the guide 3.3 out of 5 and the value for money 3.7. The visitor centre’s own page says the tasting tour lasts 50 minutes (centrumstaropramen.cz).
The Staropramen brewery buildings on Vltavská, Smíchov. Photo: Aktron, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Walking tours of microbreweries
Brewery tour with unlimited tastings
From £84.35 · 4.8 stars from 107 reviews · 3 hours
Prague: Brewery Tour with Unlimited Tastingsad, by Beer Prague Tours, visits three mini-breweries on a short walk through the centre, tastes at least nine local beers with Czech appetizers, and has unlimited beer at the last stop. It runs for 1 to 20 people in English or German, and the route depends on which breweries are free that day. Guests must be 18 or over and carry ID.
3-hour microbrewery tour
From £54.53 · 4.6 stars from 94 reviews · 3½ hours
Prague: 3-Hour Microbrewery Tourad, by Prague Beer Tours & Tastings, meets at Týnská 4 in the Old Town and visits three microbreweries on foot and by tram through the New Town, tasting 11 beers, with the beer brewed on the spot at each.
Plzeň: the Pilsner Urquell brewery
The Pilsner Urquell brewery in Plzeň is where the beer is made, and the brewery tour costs 430 CZK, 100 minutes, for a group of up to 40. It takes in a brewhouse from 2004, historic kettles from 1931 and 9 km of cellars at about 5°C, and ends with unfiltered, unpasteurised Pilsner Urquell poured from an oak barrel. Only adults are served the beer; the brewery recommends warm clothes and closed shoes. The brewery is open all year except 24, 25 and 26 December and 1 January, and the tour is not wheelchair accessible from 13 April 2026 (prazdrojvisit.cz). The tour ends at the Na Spilce pub in the brewery complex.
The gate of the Pilsner Urquell brewery, Plzeň. Photo: Tmv23, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Pilsen: Pilsner Urquell Brewery Tour with Beer Tastingad is the brewery’s own ticket, from £15.34 (4.7 stars from 2,975 reviews), at about the operator’s 430 CZK. It does not include the journey. ČD trains run from Praha hlavní nádraží to Plzeň in 1 hour 21 to 23 minutes, at 145 to 169 CZK each way, so a day costs about £25 with the ticket. Small-group day trips from Prague that include the brewery cost far more: the Pilsner Urquell and Bohemian glassworks day tripad, 9 hours, is from £173.13 (5.0 stars from 30 reviews), and the shorter Pilsner Urquell day tripad, 7 hours, from £160.24 (7 reviews). Day trips from Prague compares going by train with a tour.
Oak vats in the cellars of the Pilsner Urquell brewery, Plzeň. Photo: P.H. Louw, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.5.
Beer spas
A beer spa is a bath, not a tasting: you soak in a tub of warm water with brewer’s yeast and hops while drinking beer.
- Bernard Beer Spaad, from £116.73 for up to two people (4.8 stars from 4,827 reviews, 1 hour), is a private room with a beer bath for two, unlimited Bernard beer from the tap, a rest on a heated bed, towels and slippers and a bottle of Bernard beer to take away. A 20-minute massage is an option.
- Beer Baths Letnáad, from £67.31 (4.7 stars from 267 reviews, 1 hour), is 25 to 30 minutes in the bath and 25 to 30 minutes in a salt room. The version with a wine bathad is the same price (4.7 stars from 489 reviews).
How to choose
- One beer experience, the most reviews: the Pilsner Urquell Experience.
- A guided tasting of Czech beers: the Czech Beer-Tasting Experience with Snacks, from £25.56.
- A working brewery: Plzeň, by train.
- To pour your own: Beer Point, or the Tapster Academy at the Pilsner Urquell Experience.
- The cheapest: Staropramen, from £10.65, at 3.7 stars.
- Unlimited beer on a walk: the Brewery Tour with Unlimited Tastings, from £84.35.
- A bath, not a tasting: a beer spa.
Prague banned organised pub crawls at night in October 2024 (Pražský deník), so the tours here are tastings, a museum and a walk between microbreweries. To drink in a pub without a tour, where to eat in Prague names the beer halls by how many sources cite them, from Lokál to U Fleků, and Prague food tours compared has the food tours that include a beer. Best time to visit Prague covers the beer festivals in the year, and what to book before you go to Prague lists the sights that need tickets. For an evening, see ghost tours and the medieval dinner. Vltava river cruises compared says why to skip the Beer Cruise, Prague public transport has the tram and metro fares, and 3 days in Prague and Prague in one day show where a tasting fits.
Common questions
What is the best beer tour in Prague?
For one beer experience, the Pilsner Urquell Experience: 4.7 stars from 4,160 reviews on GetYourGuide, from £18.15, with two beers or soft drinks included. It is a museum and a tasting on 28. října by Můstek, not a working brewery. For a beer tasting with a guide, the 90-minute Czech Beer-Tasting Experience with Snacks is from £25.56 (4.7 stars from 801 reviews). For a walk through three microbreweries, the 3-hour Brewery Tour with Unlimited Tastings is from £84.35.
How much does the Pilsner Urquell Experience cost?
The Original Tour is 579 CZK on the operator's own site, 60 to 90 minutes with two beers or soft drinks included, and from £18.15 on GetYourGuide. The Tapster Academy, a class in pouring a Pilsner, is 1,049 CZK on its own site and from £36.54 on GetYourGuide. It opens every day from 11:00 to 20:30 except Christmas Day and New Year's Day.
Can I visit the Pilsner Urquell brewery from Prague?
Yes, in Plzeň, about 1 hour 20 minutes by train from Praha hlavní nádraží. The brewery tour is 430 CZK for 100 minutes and ends with unfiltered, unpasteurised Pilsner Urquell from an oak barrel. It is closed on 24, 25 and 26 December and 1 January. GetYourGuide sells the same ticket from £15.34.
Are there pub crawls in Prague?
Not as an organised tour at night: in October 2024 Prague banned organised pub crawls at night. The tours here are tastings, a museum visit and walks through microbreweries. For drinking in a pub without a tour, where to eat in Prague names the beer halls by how many sources cite them.
Is the Staropramen brewery tour worth it?
It is the cheapest beer tour listed, from £10.65 on GetYourGuide, but it is rated 3.7 stars from 2,399 reviews. It is a self-guided visit to the Staropramen Visitor Centre in Smíchov, with a tasting of four beers or a drink, and GetYourGuide says the brewery itself is not open to visitors.
