House under the machine

No one today knows who invented beer. Pili them the ancient Greeks and Romans mention of this drink can be found in the Code of Hammurabi (1800 r. BC), he wrote about him in his chronicle of Gall Anonymous, Leszek White resigned from the Crusades, due to the lack of beer in warm countries. In Poland, it was a very popular drink of beer.

"Wine is rarely used here, and the cultivation of vineyards is not known. However, it has the country Polish beverage brewed from wheat, hops and water, the Polish beer called; and nothing emphasizing instead the better for refreshment of the body, is not only a delight locals but also foreigners delicious taste, more than in other countries delights. " He wrote about our country known chronicler Jan Dlugosz.

According to the law of 1667 years in the beer can be brewed only in affiliated guild. Cech brewers in Krakow already existed in 1,423 years. Under his supervision there were two towers Krakow, standing in the place currently occupied by the building of Theatre. Słowacki. The purpose of the guild was not only defense but also the maintenance of the two towers. Most, however, breweries were located outside the city walls, next to the mills and tanneries. Breweries city led the guild masters, while outside the city walls bunglers, ie. A person not affiliated to the guild, practicing their profession illegally.

In the mid-sixteenth century, many breweries were on the street St. John. With beer was famous house "At the peacock" at number 30, in the building of the current branch of the National Museum - the Czartoryski Museum also conducted a brewery. Beer Krakow, called "dubeltowym" was then - as a wonderful drug - patients recommended by doctors.

In the nineteenth century, the most popular was the beer from the brewery Rudolf Jenny'ego, built in 1840 at the intersection of Arms and Lubicz (in 1903 redeemed by Baron Götz-Okocimski, the owner operating since 1845 in Okocim brewery).

In the Garden Strzelecki drank beer Julian Pagaczewskiego (1830-1877), originally imported from Tenczynek, and later produced in house "Pod Machine" on Kleparz, in the place where today is the building of the Polish National Bank (corner Basztowa Street and Matejko Square) . Julian Pagaczewski (grandfather Stanislaw Pagaczewskiego, writer, author of the famous series of children's books about the adventures of Professor Baltazar sponges) studied brewing in London, as the first in Poland began producing beer brand "porter". He ran his own shop in the Cloth Hall, where he sold beer manufactured by them.