The Liberation Festival Pilsen will have its own beer again. It will be called Veteran.

The Liberation Festival Pilsen will have its own special batch of beer. It will be brewed in Pilsen's experimental brewery, Elektrárna. Visitors to the Liberation Celebrations will be able to taste the unfiltered 10° special Indian Pale Lager (IPL) with the distinctive name Veteran on the Square of the Republic from May 2 to 6, 2025. They can also buy it there in limited edition cans with a picture of the annual Liberation Celebrations. There will also be a limited-edition glass to commemorate the event.

"The entire Liberation Festival Pilsen is about honoring those who liberated Pilsen 80 years ago. They gave us freedom, and many of them died. So, we are releasing a special batch of beer, linking breweries in Pilsen and the USA. It is one of the many ways to repeat again and again: Thank you!" said Mayor Roman Zarzycký, who was present at the launch of the batch of beer.

"As part of the American-Czech friendship, we have teamed up with Three Taverns Brewery for the third year to create Veteran beer. The brewery, based in Atlanta, organizes events in the USA to celebrate the end of World War II. We're happy that we were able to get a special batch for Pilsen," said Michal Škoda from the Elektrárna brewery.

The beer was brewed using a special hop called Veteran, which is a blend of different hops including HBC 586, Ekuanot, Idaho 7, Chinook, and Triumph. These hops come from a network of hop farms called Yakima Chief Hops. This American association releases a special hop blend each year and donates a portion of the sales to support war veterans. The recipe for the Veteran IPL was created by Lenka Straková, a brew master at Proud Brewery, together with brewer Neal Engleman from the American Three Taverns brewery.