| After the War, all three breweries were nationalised
and commenced their post-war history as national enterprises. It was not
an easy time for breweries – Socialist Czechoslovakia was focused exclusively
on the development of heavy industry and mining. Many qualified labourers
and specialists left for better-paid positions elsewhere and the situation
was exacerbated by complications in obtaining financing for capital investment
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At Staropramen Brewery, annual production grew despite all the above,
without making any concessions in beer quality. In 1960 the brewery's
annual production volume exceeded 1,000,000 hecto-litres. Until the end
of the 1980s, the enterprise was developed primarily as a supplier of
beer for Prague and its
surrounding areas.
In 1960, specialists at Braník Brewery isolated a new chemical which was
identified as vitamin B15 and dubbed "pangamic acid". In this manner,
Braník became the only brewery in the Republic to process waste yeast
and manufacture from it, under a Czech patent, the well-known vitamin
preparation "Pangamin".
Ostravar Brewery after the War was re-built and modernised in several
phases it became the principal supplier of beer for the area of North
Moravia.
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