History

After the end of the Second World War in 1945, the subsequent expulsion of Germans and the confiscation of their property, the operation of the local brewery was terminated. Part of the equipment ended up in the brewery in Dobruška, the rest was sold off. The brewery buildings were given to local farms and gradually fell into disrepair, until they were demolished in 2001. In their place there are now only the original cellars and one abandoned farm building.

In 2019, we revived the brewing tradition in Olešnice in the Orlické Mountains, but we chose a different building, located just outside the village, in a secluded spot, but directly on the main road leading to the village. The location is in a valley called Zelené, and the place is known as 'U svatých' (By the Saints). This is because there are two baroque sculptures of saints from 1722 and 1726 respectively. Their origin is not entirely clear. We consider the most likely version that the owners of the original building could not have children for a long time, and when they finally succeeded after many years, the owner had the first sculpture — of Saint Joseph — built as a gesture of thanks. After the birth of the second child, the second sculpture followed — a pietà.

The original building was probably built in the sixteenth century and for much of its history served as a roadside inn. It was always located directly at a triple border. Because of this, men often got into fights in the pub. After one bloody brawl, the authorities even banned the serving of alcohol in this local tavern for some time. In the second half of the eighteenth century, the building burned down and the site lay derelict for several decades. The ruins were purchased by the owner of the Olešnice brewery, Oskar Migula, and in 1902 he built a new roadside inn there, which he did not run himself but rented out.

In the post-war period, the building was confiscated and modified and rebuilt several times. It served primarily as a company recreational cottage called Pionýr. For a long time, it was mainly used by employees with families from the mill machinery factory in Pardubice. In the 1980s, the state took over the building and established a customs post there. The Ministry of the Interior reconstructed the building and abandoned it after several years. From 2004 to 2014, the building was empty and dilapidated, and it seemed it would not escape further destruction. But then I came along, saved the building from demolition, reconstructed it and built a brewery, pension and restaurant in it. In the autumn of 2019, the first batch of our new Agent beer was brewed.