Řečkovický CRAFTBEER Festival 2026 Brno: 150 Beers, 20 Breweries, and Live Music at the Old Brewery Amphitheatre

Brno has plenty of June events. The Řečkovický CRAFTBEER Festival is the one that combines 150 different beers, 20 carefully selected Czech and international craft breweries, a full two-day concert programme, and the backdrop of a newly renovated amphitheatre built inside an old brewery in one of the city's most pleasant residential districts. The 11th edition of this consistently popular event takes place on Friday June 5 and Saturday June 6, 2026, at the Amfiteátr Starý pivovar Řečkovice on Palackého náměstí 2050/9a in Brno's Řečkovice district.

The festival opens on Friday at 15:00 and on Saturday at 14:00, running until 23:55 on both days. Tickets are priced at 150 CZK for Saturday or 250 CZK for the two-day pass — which makes it one of the best-value craft beer events in Moravia, period.

Eleven Years of Craft Beer in Řečkovice: A Festival That Keeps Growing

The Řečkovický CRAFTBEER Festival started as a neighbourhood initiative in the Brno-Řečkovice district and has grown across eleven editions into one of the most respected craft beer events in South Moravia. The consistency of its formula — real craft breweries, serious beer selection, live music in a setting that encourages conversation and enjoyment rather than rush — has built a loyal audience that returns each June and brings new people with them.

The setting matters enormously to that formula. The Amfiteátr Starý pivovar Řečkovice — the amphitheatre of the old Řečkovice brewery — is a venue with genuine historical resonance: a cultural and community space that uses the physical bones of a brewery to host an event celebrating the brewing tradition it was originally built for. The brewery itself no longer operates commercially, but the site has been restored and the amphitheatre newly renovated, creating an outdoor concert and festival space that is both architecturally distinctive and practically well-suited to an event of this format.

The 11th edition in 2026 is a two-day event — the format the festival adopted as it grew beyond what a single day could contain — and it holds the patronage of the Mayor of the Brno-Řečkovice a Mokrá Hora district, Mgr. Marek Viskot.

Craft beer culture in the Czech Republic is a specific and serious phenomenon. The country has the highest per-capita beer consumption in the world — approximately 129 litres per person annually, a figure no other country has matched — and Czechs have a relationship with beer that is cultural and gastronomic as well as recreational. The craft beer movement that emerged in the 2010s brought a new dimension to this tradition: small, independent breweries experimenting with styles, ingredients, and techniques outside the conventions of the dominant lager producers. The Řečkovický CRAFTBEER Festival sits squarely in this movement — twenty breweries that make beer with craft and intention, presented to an audience that knows the difference.

20 Breweries, 150 Beers: The 2026 Selection

The 2026 festival brings 20 craft breweries to the Řečkovice amphitheatre, with the collective tap list reaching up to 150 different beers — a selection that ranges from familiar regional Czech producers to smaller, more experimental operations whose products are only rarely available outside specialist craft beer bars.

The confirmed 2026 brewery list:

Czech and domestic craft:

• Pivovar Clock (Potštejn, East Bohemia) — one of the most respected independent Czech craft breweries, known for clean IPAs and experimental seasonal releases
• Vorkloster — craft microbrewery with a range spanning lagers through ales
• Wild Creatures — creative craft operation
• Frankies — craft bar and brewing operation
• Craftbeer bar Solniční (Brno) — the city's own beloved craft bar, bringing Brno's local craft scene directly to the event
• Únětice (Central Bohemia) — one of the most traditional and respected Czech craft breweries, famous for its unpasteurised Únětické pivo lager; a beer that has gained cult status in the Czech craft community for the quality of its classical Czech style
• Sibeeria (Pilsen region) — creative microbrewery
• Zichovec (Central Bohemia) — innovative craft operation known for international styles adapted to Czech ingredients
• Haksna — craft producer
• Falkon — craft brewery
• Hákův pivovar — regional craft operation
• Duck&Dog — craft brewery
• Nachmelená Opice (Hopped Monkey) — Czech craft operation known for hop-forward styles
• Obora — craft brewery
• Chroust — craft producer
• Pivovar Vršky — small-batch craft brewery
• Albert Michler — craft operation
• Fenetra — craft brewery
• Čestmír — Czech craft producer
• Mad Cat — creative craft brewery
• Upside Down — innovative craft operation

The geographic spread across this list — Brno, Prague area, East Bohemia, Pilsen region, Central Bohemia — gives the festival a genuine cross-section of the Czech craft beer landscape, not simply a showcase of local producers.

What to expect in the glass: Czech craft beer in 2026 covers an extraordinary range of styles — from the Czech lager tradition (světlý ležák, dark lager, Czech pale ale) through IPAs and double IPAs, session beers, wheat ales, sours, stouts, farmhouse ales, and experimental fruit and spice adjunct releases. With 150 beers across 20 breweries, visitors can spend both days systematically working through styles or allow themselves to be guided by recommendation, curiosity, and the particular pleasure of a beer that turns out to be better than expected.

Food: "Samozřejmostí je skvělé občerstvení" — outstanding food is guaranteed, as the organisers put it simply. Czech festival food in an outdoor amphitheatre setting typically includes grilled meats, hot dogs, sandwiches, and vegetable options sufficient to support a full day of drinking at a responsible pace.

Dogs welcome: The festival confirms that dogs are allowed on-site with a lead and muzzle — a small but appreciated detail for Řečkovice locals who make this event a neighbourhood occasion.

Live Music Across Two Days: The Full Concert Programme

The Řečkovický CRAFTBEER Festival has always paired its beer programme with live music — and the 2026 edition's concert schedule is the most complete yet, with four acts on Friday and four on Saturday.

Friday June 5, from 15:00

The Friday programme builds across the afternoon and evening:

Touchwood — opening the Friday afternoon with the energy appropriate to a first act that wants to set the right relaxed-but-engaged tone for the day

Band of Heysek — Czech indie/rock act building the Friday crowd as the afternoon becomes evening

Souperman — the Friday headliner; a Czech act that brings a more substantial set as the June evening light fades and the amphitheatre fills

Beach Bum — closing the Friday night with a style and energy suited to a warm June evening closing set

Saturday June 6, from 14:00

The Saturday programme starts an hour earlier — 14:00 — and has the distinct feel of a programme designed for a longer, more relaxed audience day:

Ant Attack — opening the Saturday afternoon

The Desperate Mind — building toward the evening programme

The Fakers (Pearl Jam tribute band) — one of the most anticipated acts of the weekend; a Czech Pearl Jam tribute that captures the grunge-era energy of one of the most beloved rock bands of the 1990s. For a festival audience primarily gathered around craft beer and a summer afternoon, Pearl Jam's catalogue — "Alive," "Black," "Even Flow," "Better Man," "Jeremy" — played at amphitheatre volume is one of the most satisfying possible concert experiences. The Fakers are known for faithful, high-energy Pearl Jam reproductions that connect with exactly the demographic that attends this kind of event.

Koupím si Kulomet — closing the Saturday programme with a Czech act that brings the weekend to its final hours

The music is deliberately matched to the occasion: outdoor, relaxed, high-energy enough to be engaging, varied enough across the two days to hold the interest of people who will be at the site for six to eight hours rather than a one-hour concert window.

The Venue: Řečkovice Amphitheatre and Its District

Řečkovice is a residential and historically significant district in the northeastern part of Brno, approximately 5–6 kilometres from the city center. It is one of Brno's more established outer districts — a combination of 20th-century apartment blocks, older village-era architecture, parks, and the kind of local commercial infrastructure (markets, restaurants, cafés) that characterises a neighbourhood with a genuine community identity rather than a dormitory suburb.

The Amfiteátr Starý pivovar Řečkovice (Amphitheatre of the Old Řečkovice Brewery) on Palackého náměstí 2050/9a is the district's most distinctive cultural venue — a renovated outdoor space that uses the physical structure of the old brewery complex as its architectural frame. The amphitheatre seating and stage area are set within the brewery grounds, creating a contained, acoustically favourable space where sound stays within the venue perimeter and the surrounding brewery walls give the site a character that no purpose-built festival field can replicate.

The newly renovated amphitheatre has improved comfort and infrastructure since earlier editions — better seating configuration, improved access points, and the facilities expected of a site hosting a well-established two-day festival.

Getting to the venue from Brno center:

• By tram: Brno's tram network serves Řečkovice directly — tram 12 and several bus routes connect the district to the city center in approximately 20–25 minutes. The Palackého náměstí stop in Řečkovice is a short walk from the brewery venue.
• By car: Řečkovice is accessible via the northern Brno road network; parking in the residential streets around Palackého náměstí is available but can be limited during the festival.
• By bike: The cycling connections from central Brno to the northern districts are well-developed; Řečkovice is a comfortable 25–30-minute cycle from the city center.

Brno in Early June: The Context

The Řečkovický CRAFTBEER Festival on June 5–6 opens the Brno summer event calendar in its finest district setting. The same June week brings additional events: ObrFest in Obřany on June 12–14, the Hollywood Undead headliner at Sono Centrum on June 15, and the Bryan Adams acoustic show at the Janáček Theatre on June 22. For visitors planning a longer Brno June stay, the first weekend of June at the Řečkovice amphitheatre is the ideal way to start.

June in Brno averages highs of 22–25°C — warm, mostly dry, and perfect for an outdoor amphitheatre festival running from the afternoon through to nearly midnight. Brno's proximity to the Moravian wine and beer country (Moravian Tuscany, Pálava hills, wine cellars at Mikulov) means the city sits within easy reach of the agricultural landscape that produces Czech hops (from Žatec in Bohemia, the finest in the world by many assessments) and the grains that go into the 150 beers waiting at Palackého náměstí.

Eleven editions. Eleven consecutive June openings in Řečkovice. 150 beers. A renovated brewery amphitheatre. The Fakers playing Pearl Jam on a Saturday evening. And the whole thing costs 250 CZK. The 11th edition of the Řečkovický CRAFTBEER Festival is the most complete version yet of the event that starts Brno's summer the right way.

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