Possibilities for Developing Beer Routes in Slovakia

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Result on the web

<a href="https://prace-kgp.up.krakow.pl/article/view/7407/6802" target="_blank" >https://prace-kgp.up.krakow.pl/article/view/7407/6802</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.24917/20801653.343.3" target="_blank" >10.24917/20801653.343.3</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Possibilities for Developing Beer Routes in Slovakia

Original language description

The last 30 years of brewing history in Slovakia were the most turbulent ones. They were influenced by the liquidation of some beer production as well as privatization, integration and acquisitions of global beer producers. As a reaction to the uniform taste of beer produced by the global producers, numerous small craft breweries emerged in Slovakia trying to return the specific beer taste to the regions. Their importance may also be involved in the development of popular beer tourism through beer routes in addition to the fragmentation of the Slovak brewing industry. The aim of this paper is to evaluate the potential of Slovakia for the development of beer routes. The examination and assessment of the possibilities of creating beer routes in Slovakia required considering the historical context first, and then establishing a database comprising the list of craft breweries in Slovakia and the list of places where beer festivals are organised. Correspondence with the President of the Association of Small Independent Slovak Breweries was used for this purpose. Such a database was then verified, supplemented and compared to the database developed by our team based on information from field research, telephone interviews with thirty representatives of breweries, and an analysis of websites of Slovak breweries. The database was further transformed into space, using a map of isolines (equidistant) expressing the mutual distance of the craft breweries. In compiling the results, dynamic-comparative methods and cartographic presentation methods were also used. All together, we identified 70 craft breweries and proposed three beer routes thanks to their spatial distribution.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50701 - Cultural and economic geography

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Studies of the Industrial Geography Commission of the Polish Geographical Society

ISSN

2080-1653

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

34

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

PL - POLAND

Number of pages

17

Pages from-to

36-52

UT code for WoS article

000576819700004

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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