U Medvídků, Prague — claims 1466

U Medvídků

Na Perštýně 7, 100 01 Praha 1 – Staré Město

Grade A · DocumentedTrading · checked Sept 2026

U Medvídků claims 1466. The records go back further, to 1438.

Claimed

1466

First record

1438

Building

c.1614

The building. Barrel-vaulted cellars on a central pillar, dated by archaeology to the second half of the 13th century; Renaissance rebuilding of 1614, the year cut into the stone portal beside the two bears; Gothic roof trusses and Renaissance painted ceilings survive in the hotel rooms.

Brewery tap

Historic interior

Food

Rooms

The claim

A rambling Old Town beer hall where Budvar has flowed for generations and a tiny in-house brewery revives the 15th-century brewing tradition of the house. Brewing is recorded here from 1466. Under a Gothic timber ceiling locals and visitors share long tables, and the adventurous can try X-Beer 33, one of the strongest lagers in the world.

What the records show

The house is documented in writing from 1404, but that entry names the house of the late Pavel Hubený and has nothing to do with drink: between about 1410 and 1433 his relatives, one of them Nicolaus the soap-boiler, appear to have boiled soap in it. Malt arrives in 1433, when Mikuláš the maltster bought the house and with it, probably, the right to brew, and from 1438 Jakub Starostka brewed here. Jan Nedvídek, who gave the house its name, founded in 1466 the brewery that ran without a break until 1898, when the Old Town brewing houses gave up against the new industrial breweries. The house became a large beer hall, the state took it in the 1950s, and after restitution the bar was enlarged, a hotel built in the Gothic roof and a microbrewery started — the smallest in the country, at 300 hectolitres a year.

Dated evidence for U Medvídků, earliest first
Year	What	Source
1466	Claimed founding	The pub
c.1614	Present building	Date cut into the stone portal beside the house sign of two bears
1438	First record of a drinking house here	Wikipedia

What to look for inside

Brewery founded by Jan Nedwídek in 1466, whom the brewing trade records as Medvídek
Brewing ran without a break from 1466 to 1898
The present microbrewery's first brew was on 17 November 2004
House microbrewery makes X-Beer 33
Budweiser Budvar tanked beer in the main hall

Visiting

U Medvídků is in Prague, Czechia, at Na Perštýně 7, 100 01 Praha 1 – Staré Město. We do not list opening times, because they change; the pub’s own site is the place to check before you set out.

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