Getting naked wasn’t part of the plan when I came to Pilsen, the Czech Republic’s most iconic beer town. “It’s better to be completely naked,” Lucia, the smooth-skinned deputy spa manager at the Purkmistr Beer Spa, tells me before I enter a mad, marvellous, healing beer bath at this small wellness hotel, microbrewery and restaurant complex, located on a 1603-built former farmstead, 15 minutes from Pilsen’s historical centre. Pilsen’s soft water (making the beer light) and the Czech Republic’s Saaz noble hops (adding herbal, minty freshness). Which explains why, on an October morning, I’m eagerly dropping my robe to the floor at Purkmistr, Pilsen’s only beer spa, and gingerly easing into an oversize, oak-and-larch-wood tub swirling with beer. When I come up for air, a hefty, half-litre of Purkmistr lager (yep, drinkable!)

Source: thestar October 22, 2022 01:41 UTC