Platan is a Czech regional beer label. It is produced by Městský Pivovar PLATAN s. r. o. in the South Bohemian town of Protivín. It is a regional beer with a little bit of a bitter taste. Platan got its name from an alley of plane trees, because `plane tree` is `platan` in Czech. ... Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platan
Plat'an noun [ Latin platanus . See Plane the tree.] [ Written also platane .] The plane tree. Tennyson. Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/P/102