On May 30, 9:03*am, Richard Casady
wrote:
On Sat, 30 May 2009 06:51:44 -0400, John H
wrote:

One of my favorites while stationed in Germany was a Czeck beer called
'Pilsner Urquell'.

Pilsner type beer is named after it.

Casady

Actually Pilsner Urquell (a fairly decent beer) got it's name from the
area, Plzen.