151 ive decided the czech republic is the land of the beer and the beautiful that is impossibly beautiful people as well as incredibly good beer everywhere you look in prague there is beer according to pragues beer museum yes they have one czechs consume more beer per head than any country in the world they even drink more than the irish the amber ale is known locally as liquid bread and it certainly isnt unreasonable for an eager consumer to conclude that czech beers might be the best thing since well sliced bread beer is big business annual production is nearly 20 million hectoliters or roughly 167 million barrels they export gallons of it but the beer also brings people into the country in droves and thats why the latest tourist craze in the czech republic makes so much sense like most good ideas when you hear first about it you think why didnt someone think of that already the beer spa is a fairly simple concept a day spa with beer or more accurately a day spa in beer there are no sweetly scented candles here it is yeast malt and hops an entire microbrewery if you like all dumped into a spa bath its all the ingredients that the beer is brewed from so in an extreme case if you will brew it the beer comes out said martin laciak who owns one of pragues beer spas theres about half a dozen dotted around the country at the beer spaland in prague they say 80 of their customers come from overseas but these visitors dont just want to drinkin the czech experience they want to bathe in it too its part of us said sarka a 25yearold prague student bathing in beer for the first time everybody says that we have perfect beer the best in the world so of course its a thing to be proud of the customers at the beer spa this morning are all impossibly attractive so a warning not everyone in prague looks like this dont come here expecting it for two people it will set you back almost 200 for 20 minutes in this heated beer bath there is a beer tap next to the bath with an unlimited supply of chilled beer for drinking to get the full effect dont shower they say for another 5 hours laciak claims the process is good for the skin the beer is actually very healthy it was produced in ancient times as a medicine it was not considered as nowadays as an alcoholic beverage it contains a lot of vitamin b enzymes for all the promised rejuvenating qualities of the beer bath lowering yourself into this cocktail of hops and yeast is a bit like dipping yourself into a dirty bath there are chunks floating around a green tint from the hops and it smells unsurprisingly like a big tub of beer perhaps in the land of the beer and