Compared to London porter or Berliner weisse, the connection between pilsner and its birthplace is much less obvious. In the 1840s the leading citizens of Pilsen in the Bohemian province of the Austro-Hungarian Empire were fed up with their locally brewed brown ale and hired a Bavarian brewer to build them a new brewery. Josef Groll moved to the city that is now in Czech Republic and created a beer that is now known as Pilsner Urquell.

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