Microbrewery entertainment in Europe
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16 Tons
This club is widely believed to be the hottest live music venue in the capital, attracting top local and foreign bands, who almost always play to a packed house. The brassy English pub-restaurant downstairs has an excellent house-brewed bitter.
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Sarajevo Brewery
Above the river on the south bank stands a large red-and-cream edifice with fat copper drainpipes, this is Sarajevo's famous brewery. Part of it has been converted into a cavernous bar, all dark stained wood and brass railings, serving the brewery's draft draught plus a very pleasant dark beer that slips down easily. Meals are also available.
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Pivovarský Dům
While the tourists flock to U Fleků, locals gather here to sample the classic Czech lager (in light, dark and mixed varieties; 35Kč per 0.5L) that is produced on the premises, as well as wheat beer and a range of flavoured beers (including coffee, banana and cherry, 35Kč per 0.3L). The pub itself is a pleasant place to linger, decked out with polished copper vats and brewing implements and smelling faintly of malt and hops (no smoking).
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Søgaards Bryghus
Every Danish town worth its salt now has a microbrewery, and Aalborg’s is a cracker. With a swank interior, loads of outdoor seating and a long menu of beer accompaniments, you could easily lose an afternoon or evening here sampling the seven different locals brews – favourite is the Jomfruhumle pilsner, followed closely by the Klosterbryg, a dark beer in the German style.
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Pivovar U Bulovky
This is a genuine neighbourhood bar out in the suburbs, a homely wood-panelled room with quirky metalwork, much of it home-built by the owner. The delicious house ležák (lager; 29Kč for 0.5L) is a yeast beer, cloudy in appearance, and crisp, citrusy and refreshing in flavour. Well worth the tram trip, but don’t expect the staff to speak English!
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Purple Moose Brewery
The Purple Moose Brewery is one of about 30 microbreweries across Wales. From humble beginnings the venture is now very much a working business with a small staff of four and contacts to supply pubs across North Wales from Anglesey to Harlech. In August 2006 the Snowdonia Ale won the Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA) award for Champion Beer.
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Teerenpeli
A real Lahti success story, this popular pub sells its own tasty beers and ciders (try the blueberry one) and even distils a single-malt whisky. It’s got quite an upmarket interior these days, with white walls, plush stools, miniquiches and a tapas menu, and is always humming with chatter or live jazz. There’s a summer branch at the harbour.
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Pri Kmeta
At the Mayor’s’ is a convivial microbrewery serving its own ‘Kmetsko’ beer, which is available in litre and, for the very thirsty, metre-length measures. There are seats at ground level, but the cellar beer hall, with its gleaming copper vats, is more atmospheric, and hosts regular live music events.
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Rakovsky Brovar
This jolly two-storey brewery is the most popular of its kind in Minsk. It's known for its good cheer and not its food, which is not bad but a little pricey. The huge menu of Belarusian and other European cuisine will at least help keep you from getting too drunk. There are often roving accordionists.
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Trondheim Microbryggeri
This splendid home-brew pub deserves a pilgrimage as reverential as anything accorded to St Olav from all committed øl (beer) quaffers. With up to eight of its own brews on tap and good light meals (around Nkr150) coming from the kitchen, it’s a place to linger, nibble and tipple.
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Lights Of Ufa
This shiny modern building includes a host of entertainment options, including a concert hall, a sports bar and your traditional disco. The microbrewery Brau Haus is the most fun, featuring live jazz, dancing and fresh-brewed lager. From ul Lenina, take any bus north to ‘Dom Pechati’.
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Fiddler
This large, split-level, wood-panelled English microbrewery always has a decent crowd snacking on the OK pub food and the Fiddler's own beers: an ale, a pale ale and a stout. In the end, it's probably a bit too cavernous - intimacy's hard to come by. Good location: in the eye of the Grote Kerk.
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Nørrebro Bryghus
This two-storey brewery with a lounge bar and good, midrange restaurant kickstarted the microbrewing craze in Denmark a few years back (master brewer Anders Kissmeyer looks after the beer side of things), and the concept remains as fresh and alluring as ever.
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Potrefená Husa
CB's bright young things come out to play at this spot owned by Prague's Staropramen brewery. With tasty bar snacks, Belgian beers, and a summer terrace overlooking the water, the burghers of Budvar might be a tad concerned at the enemy in their midst.
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Kneitinger
This quintessential Bavarian brewpub is the place to go for some hearty home cooking (mains €5.80 to €15), delicious house suds and outrageous oompah frolics. It's been in business since 1530. Tours of its brewery are given Wednesday afternoons at 3pm.
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Lass O'Gowrie
A Victorian classic off Princess St that brews its own beer in the basement. It’s a favourite with students, old-timers and a clique of BBC employees who work just across the street in the Beeb’s Manchester HQ. It also does good-value bar meals (£6).
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Bryggerie
The splendid Mack Brewery in Tromsø has been supplanted as the world's northernmost by Honningsvåg's microbrewery. Among beers brewed on the spot is Ole Anton (Uncle Anton), named after the uncle of one of the owners.
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MBC
This trendy microbrewery run by four Canadians is fab. Be it with their burgers, cheesecake of the week, live music or amazing locally brewed and named beers (Blonde de Chamonix, Stout des Drus, Blanche des Guides etc), MBC delivers.
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Złoty Róg
A good place for a drink is Złoty Róg, right next to the Hotel Europa. Sample one of the four boutique beers brewed out the back, and recuperate from sightseeing within the cool timber interior.
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Tinkoff
The newest outlet of this national microbrewery has the same industrial style and delicious draughts as the other outlets. The extensive menu complements the beer, as does the occasional live music or DJ act. Free wi-fi.
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Die Kneipe
The refreshing ales are reason enough to stop by this fine microbrewery with a view across the Neva from its outdoor tables. The food – majoring in German-style sausages – is also the business.
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Černohorský Sklep
The busy, busy, busy waiters at the Black Mountain Brewery's Brno tavern can be a little surly, but you'll forgive them once you taste the Black Hill aperitif beer or the Kvasar brew flavoured with honey.
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CK Browar
Serious tipplers will head for this microbrewery with its own cavernous drinking hall, and order the home brew in 3L tubes a metre high, which the wait staff bring to your table and fix onto special taps.
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Brasserie de Monaco
Tourists and locals rub shoulders at Monaco’s only microbrewery, which crafts rich organic ales and lager, and serves tasty (if pricy) antipasti plates. Happy hour runs from 5pm to 9pm.
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Café Kriti
Also known as Lyrakia, this rough-and-ready joint, with a decorative scheme that relies on saws, pots, ancient sewing machines and animal heads, is the place to hear live Cretan music.
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