SB: When you ask today about a plan, I have to laugh. During the auction of the Humpolec brewery, which was in an extremely poor technical condition, somewhat beyond death, my partner and I made a calculation on a sheet of A4 paper. The asset value of the brewery was 9.5 million Crowns. We managed to get it for 52 million Crowns, including unusable supplies. Many people probably tapped their foreheads, thinking we were mad, but we were full of enthusiasm and determined to prove ourselves. After years of oppression came a possibility to start a business, to achieve something, to try to see if we had it in us. We have run into technical problems and lack of funds daily from the beginning. It was tough, but we wanted to have the best beer. That was our goal. In our first year of business we brewed approximately 107,000 hectoliters of beer. Meanwhile as the state enterprise Jihočeský Pivovar [South Bohemian Brewery], into which Humpolec fell, 26,000 hectoliters were made a year before.