My friend Katerina, when she saw this painting the first time, wrote me this masterpiece prose:
«Доброе, в духе хмельном я жадно пену глотал, воздух не нужен, сыт я пшеницей, золото зелья магию в ум мой вселял.»
My czech teacher paní Marcela very poetically translated it into czech language:
"Jak božské! V pivním opojení jsem lačně hltal pěnu, dýchat nebylo třeba, nasycen jsem byl pšenicí, zlaté písky moku mně očarovaly rozum"
I tried my best to translate it into English...
"How divine! In a beer spirit I greedily swallowed the foam, no need to breathe, satiated with wheat, golden liquid bewitched my mind"
The Czech Republic is famous for its beer and hops. Czech beer has a long history and high reputation in the world. Beer in the Czech Republic began to be brewed as early as the Celts, but beer was first mentioned in 1088 in a letter from Prince Bretislav, where he ordered to give several bags of hops to Vyshegrad monks for brewing beer. In 1118, the Brno brewery was first mentioned in history. Then, in the XII century, the production of beer was so expanded that it was brewed in every home. The first laws concerning beer appeared only in the 13th century, at the same time the first brewery workshops appeared. In the XIV-XV centuries, the first large breweries appeared, some of which still exist today.
