At Aftăr Stube, the house beer is Bere Czell. It is not a new brand but a Brașov story of more than 130 years: a family of entrepreneurs, a brewery at Dârste, a lost recipe and two brothers who found it.
1816 – 1891
A family of entrepreneurs
Friedrich Thomas Czell was born in Brașov in 1816, the son of a wool textile producer. From wool workshops he went on to distilleries, a small brewery on Strada Lungă, the sugar factory at Bod and the coal mine at Vulcan. In 1891 the family also bought Brașov's first brewery, founded in 1857, which became the heart of the Czell brewery.
1892 – 1893
The birth of Bere Czell
In September 1892 work began on the brewery at Dârste, on the road to Predeal. On 15 October 1893 the first bottle of Bere Czell left the brewery gates. The Czell beer hall opened next to it, with a brass band every Sunday: 30 kreuzers bought entry and three glasses of beer.
1948 – 1995
The break
In 1948 the Czell family was deported from Romania and all their property was confiscated. The Dârste brewery was nationalised and renamed Aurora, and later Ciucaș. The Czell name disappeared from the bottles for more than 70 years.
2020 – 2022
#GustulPierdut, the lost taste
Lóránd Tóth, a horticulture student, found a laboratory certificate from around 1900 in an archive, holding the original Czell recipe, and brewed it again, trial after trial. His brother, Edömér Tóth, collected old Czell bottles, tokens, labels and advertisements. In 2022, with brewmaster Simonffy Árpád, they restarted production: on 22 February the first crate of Bere Czell since the 1940s was bottled, and Czell Originală 1893 follows the historic recipe.
2026
Home, on Council Square
In January 2026 Brauhaus Czell opened on Council Square (Piața Sfatului), in a production hall from 1924 on the way to Palatul Czell. February brought Czell Beer Museum, with the Tóth brothers' whole collection, and the nano-brewery run by Simonffy Árpád.
The full story on bere-czell.ro
The Czell beers on our menu
Two ranges, as on bere-czell.ro: Legacy, after the 1893 recipe, and Innovation. Tap a label to see what we have on draught or in bottles right now, the prices and the Untappd rating.
Czell Legacy
The historic recipe. The original identity. Classical balance.
Czell Innovation
Contemporary creativity. Controlled experimentation.
Visit the source
Czell Brauhaus on Council Square has the Czell nano-brewery and museum. The full story, with every date and photo, is on bere-czell.ro.