Platan is a brand of

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produced since 1598 in the

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town of

Protivín Protivín () is a town in Písek District in the South Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 4,700 inhabitants. Administrative parts Villages of Chvaletice, Krč, Maletice, Milenovice, Myšenec, Protivín, Selibov, Těšínov and Zá ...

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Types of Platan beer

* ''Platan Schwarzenbergské Pivo Knížecí 21'' (10,6 % vol.), a

strong lager Pale lager is a very pale-to-golden-colored lager beer with a well- attenuated body and a varying degree of noble hop bitterness. The brewing process for this beer developed in the mid-19th century, when Gabriel Sedlmayr took pale ale brewin ...

. * ''Platan Granát'' (4,6 % vol.), a

Vienna lager Lager () is beer which has been brewed and conditioned at low temperature. Lagers can be pale, amber, or dark. Pale lager is the most widely consumed and commercially available style of beer. The term "lager" comes from the German for "storage" ...

. * ''Platan Premium'' (5,0 % vol.), a lager. * ''Platan Jedenáct'' (4,9 % vol.), a

pale lager Pale lager is a very pale-to-golden-colored lager beer with a well- attenuated body and a varying degree of noble hop bitterness. The brewing process for this beer developed in the mid-19th century, when Gabriel Sedlmayr took pale ale brewing ...

. * ''Platan line'' (4,0 % vol.), a beer with reduced sugar content. * ''Prácheňská perla'' – (6,0 % vol.), a

Pilsner Pilsner (also pilsener or simply pils) is a type of pale lager. It takes its name from the Bohemian city of Plzeň (german: Pilsen), where the world's first pale lager (now known as Pilsner Urquell) was produced in 1842 by Pilsner Urquell Brewe ...

brewed in the traditional style of

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. * ''Platan Protivín'' (4,0 % vol.), draft lager. * ''Platan Nealko'', an

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. Beer in the Czech Republic

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