[1] The festival features around 120 different beers,[2] including 70 Czech brands and other foreign brews, including those from the United States and the United Kingdom, with up to 10,000 seating capacity and service provided by around 200 girls and boys dressed in Czech traditional costumes.
[3][4] British newspaper The Financial Times ranked the festival to be among 40 global events that you should visit in 2012.
[5] Formerly, visitors used a special currency, the Tolar, to pay for beer and food at the festival.
The first smaller version of Czech Beer Festival outside the country was held in September 2010 in Frankfurt, the next year it also spread to Berlin and Moscow.
[7] The festival was canceled in 2019[8] after a disagreement with the local government in the 7th district of Prague, and also with the leadership of the city.