A Project For The Entire Community

What sets Wilber, Nebraska apart from many rural communities is its ties to traditions, family and a rich Czech heritage. That is why it is the Czech Capital of the USA and why Wilber is a unique community. It is this commitment to tradition and heritage that prompted community members to pursue placing a brewery in a community that annually draws 25,000 to 50,000 people to its annual ethnic festival, Czech Days, and has visitors from all over the United States, of both Czech and non-Czech heritage, each and every year.

A brewery once stood proud and profitable in Wilber, known far and wide as a true Czech beer with unmatched taste and quality. That same sense of commitment to taste and quality is back and Wilber is looking forward to becomming a forerunner in the craft brewing market.

Click here to read Wilber Republican editorial from 9/1/2010

Some of the local benefits t the community from this project are:

• Creation of jobs
• Increasing the tax base
• Boost tourism throughout the year
• Additional business to applicable industries
• Potential for more business opportunities locally
• Strengthening local businesses/Chamber

Want to be involved in this ground-breaking venture?

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Overview of a Brewery

• Craft breweries (small breweries that produce less than 15,000 barrels of beer a year) are having a resurgence in the United States with over 1,525 in the United States as of July, 2009.
• Craft breweries experienced a 5.9 percent annual increase in barrels of beer produced in 2008.
• Craft Breweries allow for the freshest beer possible to be distributed to the masses and have local ties to communities, representing a culture, heritage or region.
• The Czech Republic is world-famous for its beer-making ability and its renowned brews hace been award winners for countless years. Making a Czech beer in the Czech Capital of the United States could help bring back styles, processes and recipes of beers not seen in the United States in ages...if ever!

Facts about beer

• Beer is primarily made up of four ingredients: water, hops, barley and yeast. sugar is extracted from the barley and hops are added for bitterness with the yeast converting most of the sugars into alcohol.
• A Mesopotamian tablet dating back to 7,000 BCE is believed to have included a beer recipe.
• Beer accounts for nearly 87 percent of all alcoholic beverages in the U.S.  The average American drinks 23 gallons of beer per year.

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