I know there were more Slovaks than Czechs who moved to Pittsburgh, but are any of the boutique breweries there even taking a stab at Czech pilsners?
Related: Czech beer is some of the finest in the world and it’s annoyingly barely available in the US.
A buddy of mine is a Czech Pilsner fan. If you get any recommendations let me know.
I might have mentioned my personal "meh" attitude toward Pilsner beer (good thirst quencher, but otherwise a rather ordinary taste), but it seems to me that a lot of American breweries have Czech Pilsners in their portfolio, as evidenced by:
https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/style/40/
Personally, I tend to rotate Pilsner Urquell (super cheap at Sam's), Lagunitas Pils, and Behemoth by Core Brewery (out of NW Arkansas). Of those three, Behemoth is the best, IMO (though I think one of the factors may be that it doesn't require major logistic operation to get from the brewery to my table
).
I an not sure how far Core reaches, but Lagunitas should be available everywhere.
Besides Czech-style beer, Core Brewery recently got into a very Czech-style selling of beer. Namely, they now set up their own network of pubs that sell Core beer and nothing else. (The majority of Czech pubs have contact with just one or two breweries. Experts claim that this dual mutual monitoring is behind the high quality of many Czech beers).