The World's Top 100 Beer Bars
Taprooms and beer halls with honors behind the taps: the places the professional record ranks highest for a pint, worldwide.
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Rank 1. Gracie's Tax Bar
Beer Bar
A faded pink building off Seventh Avenue, formerly a tax office, which tracks: there's something a little bureaucratic about a jukebox this good. Inside, the bar is cheap, loose, and happy to stay that way, with Scrabble at the booths and beers that don't require a budget meeting. The patio shifts into DJ territory after dark, and the rotating calendar of themed nights keeps regulars checking Instagram like it's homework.
- Imbibe Where to Drink in Phoenix
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- AZ Central Best bars in metro Phoenix
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Rank 2. Omnipollos Hatt
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Rank 3. Rain Dog Bar
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A loft-style beer bar in Inglewood where the list is organized by style and vintage, the way a serious wine shop might do it. The team behind it includes Alberta's first Certified Cicerone, and the draft and bottle selection runs from rare Trappist ales to hard-to-find natural fermentations from brewers most people haven't heard of yet. Charcuterie and conservas fill the gaps. It ranked 36th on Canada's 100 Best Bars list for 2026.
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Rank 4. Brasserie de la Mule
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Rank 4. Brewhouse
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Little Five Points' go-to soccer bar, Brewhouse draws Atlanta United faithful and international match crowds to a room that takes cricket and rugby as seriously as the Premier League. The beer list runs deep across local, domestic, and imported options, and the Painkiller cocktail comes in three levels of commitment. Wings, nachos, and fish and chips keep things grounded. Wear whatever you'd wear to the match.
- The Infatuation The 18 Best Bars In Atlanta
- Eater The Best Sports Bars in Atlanta for Watching the World Cup and More
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Rank 4. Cantillon
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Rank 4. La Source Bière Co.
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Rank 4. Le Barboteur
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Rank 4. Malz
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Rank 4. Station 1280
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Rank 4. Victor
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- Foodist Awards 2023 · Winner · Top Arizona Brewery, Winery, or Distillery Experience
- Foodist Awards 2025 · Finalist: American Pie · Favorite Local Craft Beer
- Foodist Awards 2024 · Finalist: Mango Foxtrot · Favorite Local Craft Beer
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Rank 13. Nutowne Saloon
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A seven-foot plaster rooster presides over the bar, and a miniature Eiffel Tower tops the roof, and somehow neither feels out of place. Nutowne Saloon is an old-school gay bar in east Phoenix that has been around forever, surviving a fire that gutted the place and still coming back kitschier than before. Pool tables, a Merlin fortune-telling machine, and a patio covered for the crowds round out a room that grandma's attic would recognize immediately.
- Phoenix New Times 2023 · Best Gay Bar Decor · Best of Phoenix
- AZ Central Best bars in metro Phoenix
- Phoenix New Times The Top 100 Bars in Phoenix
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Rank 13. Wren House Brewing
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Plastic dinosaurs lined up on the ledge, a letterboard menu that changes whenever it feels like it, and a taproom that still reads as someone's living room because it used to be one. This community-focused brewpub in Green Gables pours the Spellbinder hazy IPA alongside a rotating cast of fruit-forward beers, and food trucks regularly pull up out front to fill the gap. Small, friendly, and a little cluttered in the best way.
- Foodist Awards 2025 · Winner: Spellbinder · Favorite Local Craft Beer
- Phoenix New Times 2024 · Best Brewery · Best of Phoenix
- Phoenix New Times 2025 · Best Brewery · Best of Phoenix
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- New England Best Breweries in Vermont
- James Beard Awards 2023 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Wine and Other Beverages Program
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The taproom is built to look like a church, which feels appropriate given how seriously Houstonians take their hometown brewery. Texas's oldest craft brewery pours its own Art Car IPA, Amber Ale, and H-Town Pils alongside a full kitchen running stone-fired pizzas and bar bites. The outdoor garden catches a downtown view when the heat relents. A good place to convert someone still loyal to Miller Lite.
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Rank 26. 8th Wonder Brewery
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The beer names tell you everything: a cream ale called Dome Foam, a porter called Mission Control, a red ale called Cougar Paw. This Houston brewery wears its civic pride the way other places wear sports jerseys. The taproom pours a full lineup of house beers alongside THC seltzers for the sober-curious crowd and cocktails for anyone who wandered in expecting a bar and found one anyway.
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A brewery on Fulton Street that leans hard into the Space City thing, with a hazy IPA called Fake Landing for hop heads who enjoy a conspiracy theory alongside their pint. The beer program covers lagers, IPAs, and hard seltzers, and there's wine by the glass for anyone who wandered in for the foosball. The foosball table, it should be noted, is not a metaphor.
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The bones of the building are original 1950s auto-service center, which gives this neighborhood brewpub a satisfying reason to look up at the ceiling. IPAs anchor the tap list, with other ales rotating by season, so regulars tend to have a new reason to stop in. A nice wrinkle: if someone in your group isn't feeling beer, the wine bar next door will send them over with a glass, no drama.
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Rank 26. Bayou Heights Bier Garten
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Rank 26. Cidercade
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A craft brewery on a quiet residential street on the north side of town, City Acre feels less like a taproom and more like you wandered into a very well-stocked backyard. The sour series gets regulars talking, and the PB&J porter answers a question nobody asked but everyone is glad got asked. The patio pull is real, which means arriving early if you want a seat that doesn't feel like a compromise.
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A Houston brewery that takes its beer names as seriously as its beer, with year-round taps like Buckle Bunny (a cream ale) and a rotating Limited Awesome Beer Series that lives up to the acronym. The indoor space is cavernous enough to actually beat the heat, which in this city is less a perk than a survival strategy. When the weather cooperates, the outdoor area fills fast with the kind of crowd that stays for three rounds and means it.
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The burger of the month rotates, the beer names do not disappoint, and the bar snacks lean harder than most breweries bother to. This Chapman Street brewery pours its own ales alongside house cocktails, wine, and THC options, so there's something for whoever you dragged along. The Flip Flop Cowboy amber and the pineapple-tangerine blonde tell you exactly what the vibe is before you've taken a sip.
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Karbach started as a scrappy local outfit before Anheuser-Busch bought it, and the sprawling indoor-outdoor brewery taproom it became is a pretty honest reflection of that trajectory. The full kitchen punches past standard pub grub, with a Texas Wagyu smashburger and truffle parmesan fries alongside the Crawford Bock and Love Street. Big enough for a party, casual enough for a Tuesday, and a sister pizza spot sits next door for when the group can't agree.
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Rank 26. Moon Tower Inn
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Rank 26. Pour Taproom: Midtown
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Rank 26. Round Trip Brewing Company
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Rank 26. Rudyard's
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Rank 26. STATS Brewpub
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Rank 26. Tejas Brewery
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Three stories of industrial space with a rooftop view of downtown Houston make Tejas Brewery hard to miss along Summer Street. It's a full-service beer bar where the house lagers, a Clara and a Negra, anchor the taps alongside a coffee porter. Cocktails and half-bottle wines round things out for whoever showed up not really wanting beer. Pretzel bites and street tacos keep everyone from getting ahead of themselves.
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A corner pub on the south bank, one building shy of Tower Bridge, with a beer list that leans hard into cask and craft. The room has been freshened up from its former smoke-stained self, lime green seating and all, though the bones of an old London boozer are still there. Tourists coming off the bridge mix with local office workers who'd rather not admit they work next to the Mayor.
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Rank 47. Chupacabra Taproom
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Rank 47. Cold Beer Company
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A grilled pimento cheese sandwich and 24 taps anchor this low-key beer garden on the east end of Deep Ellum, where the patio comes equipped with heaters in winter and misters in summer, which is thoughtful given that Dallas has about nine months of summer. The beer selection runs deep into local cans and rotating taps, the bartenders actually know what's on them, and Wednesday brings a small Miller High Life with a Jameson shot for anyone who needs a Wednesday reason.
- Dallas Observer The Ultimate Dallas Bar Guide
- D Magazine 2023 · Best Place to Day Drink · Best of Big D
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Rank 47. Community Beer Co.
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- Dallas Observer 2023 · Best Local Beer: Honey Citrus Blonde · Best of Dallas
- D Magazine 2023 · Best Taproom · Best of Big D
- Dallas Observer The Ultimate Dallas Bar Guide
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Rank 47. De Zotte Belgium Bierproeflokaal
Belgian Beer Bar
Tin beer signs and chalk boards cover the varnished plywood walls, and the bare wooden floor suggests nobody ever worried much about the mess. This is a traditional Belgian beer bar in Amsterdam, with a list of well over a hundred bottles and a handful of draught taps weighted heavily toward Belgian and Dutch brews. Late on weekends, the name, which means "crazy," stops being ironic and starts being a warning.
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Rank 47. Dubliner
Irish Beer Bar
The long wooden bar and a crackling fireplace in winter tell you everything: this is a cozy Irish beer bar on Lower Greenville that has been around forever. Guinness, Harp, and Smithwick's anchor the taps, the whiskey shelf leans heavily toward the Emerald Isle, and the dart board sees real use. Food is American bar grub, which is fine, because nobody came here for the sandwiches.
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Rank 47. Four Corners Brewing Co
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- D Magazine 2024 · Best Taproom · Best of Big D
- D Magazine 2025 · Best Bar Game Night · Best of Big D
- Dallas Observer The Ultimate Dallas Bar Guide
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Rank 47. Goldwater Brewing Co.
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Rank 47. Katy Trail Ice House
Texas Beer Bar
A sprawling patio bar right off the Katy Trail, the kind of place cyclists arrive at with good intentions and leave an hour later than planned. Nearly thirty Texas beers on draft and a solid lineup of Texas whiskeys keep things local, while the kitchen handles dark-beer venison chili for anyone who needs ballast. The patio is large and loud in the best communal way. Exactly what Dallas was missing before it existed.
- Dallas Observer The Ultimate Dallas Bar Guide
- D Magazine 2025 · Best Bar Patio · Best of Big D
- Dallas Observer 2025 · Best Spot on the Katy Trail · Best of Dallas
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Rank 47. Kitsune Brewing
Beer Bar
The sour program leans into nostalgic flavors both real and invented, with a pastel blue Star Wars-inspired sipper sitting comfortably beside a margarita sour. This neighborhood craft brewery in northeast Phoenix rotates its taps aggressively, and the owner's laugh tends to reach you before he does. Food trucks cover the kitchen gap while a ramen bar next door remains perpetually forthcoming. A good room for people who treat tap lists the way others treat wine menus.
- Phoenix New Times 2025 · Best Place to Take a Geek Who Loves Beer · Best of Phoenix
- Phoenix New Times The Top 100 Bars in Phoenix
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Rank 47. Level 33
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The copper brewing vats are the first thing you notice stepping out of the dedicated lift on the thirty-third floor, followed by the malty smell of an active mash. Level 33 is a microbrewery bar perched above Marina Bay, with a wraparound terrace and views that make the city look like a scale model. Office workers fill the place at lunch; evenings are quieter and considerably more vertical than most pints get brewed.
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A craft beer bar and vinyl shop sharing the same floor in Deep Ellum, Off the Record started as a browsing-and-drinking concept and became something louder. The exposed brick and crates of records are still here, but the DJs took over, and now the dance floor fills fast and stays full. A back patio exists for anyone who'd like to finish a sentence.
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Rank 47. Old Red Cow
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Rank 47. Peticolas Brewing Company
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Peticolas runs a split-level taproom out of an industrial building in West Dallas, with English, Irish, and Scottish-style ales brewed on-site. It's a semi-official FC Dallas supporters' bar, showing everything from Champions League to regional Mexican matches, which explains the noise level on a Tuesday. When there's nothing on the screens, the upstairs has foosball, ping pong, and shuffleboard to fill the gap.
- D Magazine 2025 · Best Taproom · Best of Big D
- Dallas Observer 2023 · Best Local Brewery · Best of Dallas
- D Magazine 2024 · Best Brewery · Best of Big D
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Rank 47. Pinnacle Brewing Company
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A craft brewery taproom in north Scottsdale that solved the age-old standoff between beer nerds and sports fans by simply installing TVs everywhere. The brewmaster leans toward classic European styles, rotating Czech lagers, English milds, and an Oktoberfest marzen through the taps. The covered patio connects to a permanent BBQ food trailer, so there's no reason to leave at halftime. Phoenix New Times named it Best New Brewery of 2025.
- Phoenix New Times 2025 · Best New Brewery · Best of Phoenix
- Phoenix New Times The Top 100 Bars in Phoenix
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Rank 47. Rift Wine + Tap
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Rank 47. Roosters Country
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The 12 tap handles are mounted in a repurposed fire truck behind the bar, which tells you everything you need to know about the vibe. Roosters is a country bar that's been an East Valley institution forever, with a red-and-black checkered dance floor, pool tables, live music most nights, open mics, and karaoke. A second stage and beer tubs sit out on the smoking patio. Strangers introduce you to their friends before the first round is done.
- Phoenix New Times 2023 · Best Bar for Country Music · Best of Phoenix
- Phoenix New Times The Top 100 Bars in Phoenix
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Rank 47. Sana Sana Cerveceria
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Rank 47. Six Byrd Cider
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Rank 47. Strangeways
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The Yelp complaint that someone left about the music not being changeable is basically the place's mission statement. Strangeways is an East Dallas neighborhood craft beer bar with a patio, walls covered in eclectic art, and a vibe that has no interest in pleasing everyone. The beer selection earned a Dallas Observer nod. Watch for flight nights and pop-up dinners when they surface.
- Dallas Observer The Ultimate Dallas Bar Guide
- Dallas Observer 2025 · Best Beer Selection · Best of Dallas
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Rank 47. The Dean Swift
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A corner pub in Bermondsey where the Victorian bones are still visible under a liberal coat of white paint, with crystal chandeliers doing their best to class the place up. The beer list leans heavily London-brewed, and the room fills fast with warehouse-flat residents and office workers who treat it like a local because it is one. Named for the satirist dean himself, which feels right for a pub that doesn't take itself too seriously.
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Rank 47. The Libertine Bar
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Rank 47. The Old Monk
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Pendant lights salvaged from a European monastery hang over the bar, which tells you everything about how seriously this place takes atmosphere. An old-school beer bar and pub on Henderson Avenue, The Old Monk pours drafts from around the world alongside a rotating cast of locals, with fish and chips that regulars treat as a birthright. Weekday happy hour runs until seven and has a reputation for extending the evening considerably past anyone's original plan.
- D Magazine 2024 · Best Bar for Beer · Best of Big D
- Dallas Observer The Ultimate Dallas Bar Guide
- Dallas Observer 2025 · Best Fish and Chips · Best of Dallas
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Rank 47. The Princess of Shoreditch
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Rank 47. Three Links
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- Dallas Observer The Ultimate Dallas Bar Guide
- Dallas Observer 2025 · Best Bathroom · Best of Dallas
- D Magazine 2023 · Best Live Music Venue · Best of Big D
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Rank 47. Title 9 Sports Grill
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A photo wall of Diana Taurasi greets you at the door, which tells you everything about what kind of sports bar this is. Planted in Phoenix's Melrose district, Title 9 is a beer bar and grill built around women's athletics, with imagery spanning players to sports journalists across every wall. The color palette reads as a quiet nod to the lesbian pride flag, a detail that fits the neighborhood perfectly.
- Phoenix New Times 2025 · Best New Sports Bar · Best of Phoenix
- Phoenix New Times The Top 100 Bars in Phoenix
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Rank 47. Truck Yard
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A massive patio bar tucked off Lowest Greenville where the menu is deliberately short: Philly cheesesteak, a sandwich, nachos, and that's the whole argument. The beers on tap include brews from their own By The Horns brewery in Mansfield, which gives the place a little more personality than your average outdoor bar. It draws the kind of crowd that would rather eat outside on a Tuesday than anywhere fancy on a Saturday.
- Dallas Observer The Ultimate Dallas Bar Guide
- Dallas Observer 2023 · Best Philly Cheesesteak: Steak Me Home Tonight Kitchen · Best of Dallas
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Rank 47. Whiskeys
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Around 700 whiskeys line the shelves at this Exposition Park bar, and the team takes the curation seriously enough that it shows. Dark, warm, and a little seductive inside, Whiskeys sits across from Fair Park in a stretch of Dallas most people drive past without stopping. Flights let you move through the collection systematically, including one that honors Uncle Nearest Green, the man behind Jack Daniel's original recipe.
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Rank 98. Blue Blazer Pub
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The antique brass water tap at the end of the bar exists solely so you can add a splash to your dram, which tells you everything about this place. A proper old Edinburgh pub on a corner you can spot by its blue exterior from halfway down Bread Street, it has the dark wood, mosaic tiles, parquet floor, and ornate fittings that only come with serious age. Eight Scottish real ales on traditional hand pumps, no pretension, and nowhere better to be on a wet afternoon.
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Rank 98. Brew
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A two-storey glazed brewing tower rises through the center of this hotel microbrewery bar, and the smell of yeasty mash greets you before you've found a seat. The brewing kit gives the sleek, woven-brick room something to look at besides itself, and a retro motorcycle with sidecar, pool table, and big screens do the work of keeping it from feeling like a lobby concept. Good for an unplanned second round.
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Rank 98. Brewerkz
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The in-house microbrewery sitting in the corner is the whole point here. Brewerkz is a sprawling beer bar and hall in the Clarke Quay chaos, with pool tables inside and fan-cooled riverside seating out front. Around forty international bottles share the menu with a weekly rotating cask ale, which is not something you stumble across often in Singapore. Food and cocktails exist, but nobody's pretending that's why you came.
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Rank 98. Cerveteca Lisboa
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Around 200 bottled and canned beers line the shelves of this craft beer bar on a quiet Lisbon square near Príncipe Real. Pale wood and plywood give it an IKEA-meets-classroom vibe, which sounds worse than it is, especially once you're deep into something Belgian or Canadian you'd never find elsewhere. It's been around forever by craft beer bar standards, and the range, spanning Belgium, Sweden, the US, and beyond, still pulls serious drinkers across town.
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Rank 98. D.B.A.
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Frenchmen Street runs on live music, but D.B.A. is there for the beer, the spirits, and the wine, with bands as a bonus rather than the point. Two redwood-lined rooms share a central bar, one leaning lounge, one leaning jazz club, both dim and ceiling-fan slow. The New York sister bar genes show a little, which gives this New Orleans dive a slightly unlikely polish that the regulars seem happy to ignore.
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Twenty-five seats and no reservations, which means the beer is doing all the heavy lifting on busy nights. This cozy craft beer bar on Goodge Street mixes old-pub bones with pops of color from newer furniture. The tap list leans international and pleasantly obscure, served in vessels so elaborate that one requires a credit card deposit, presumably because someone, somewhere, walked off with it.
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Rank 98. Draft House Northcote Road
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The original outpost of the Draft House chain, a specialist beer bar on Northcote Road where the tap list runs to around 18 rotating draught options and north of 40 bottles. The staff know their brewing methods, their glassware, and what pairs with what, so being lost is fine. The crowd leans toward the kind of people who read long articles about things and feel strongly about them, but they're having a good time regardless.
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Rank 98. Factoria
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Rank 98. Hubbard Inn
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A self-described "continental tavern" that reads more like an oversized gastropub once you're inside, Hubbard Inn is a big, convivial bar in River North with a serious beer program: around twenty draught handles and nearly as many cans and bottles, skewing craft. If you came for Miller Lite, it's on the menu too, quietly listed at the bottom of the beer page, which is a very polite way to handle the situation.
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Rank 98. Magnolia Pub and Brewery
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Rank 98. North
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Rank 98. The Alibi Room
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Rank 98. The Basketmaker's Arms
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Rank 98. The Black Penny
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Three blocks from Bourbon Street and operating at a different frequency entirely, The Black Penny is a low-key craft beer bar with more than 70 canned options and the kind of room that actually makes you want to stay. One side runs plush leather banquettes against distressed plaster walls; the other is all dark wood and salvaged barge boards behind the bar. The crowd tends to know exactly why they came, and it isn't the tourists.
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Rank 98. The Canny Man's
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Stuffed birds, stacked crockery, and several lifetimes of collected oddities cover every wall and ceiling of this old Morningside pub, making it feel less like a bar and more like a Victorian curiosity shop that somehow got a liquor license. The shelves behind the larger bar hold what may be Edinburgh's deepest whisky selection, and Caledonian and Belhaven come on draught for anyone who finds the malt list overwhelming, which is fair.
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Rank 98. The Jolly Butchers
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A curtain just inside the door does a surprising amount of heavy lifting, shifting the mood from Stoke Newington high street to somewhere vaguely central European. This Hackney ale and cider house packs its tables with people in their late twenties and thirties who take the draught list seriously, and they have reason to: real ales, craft beers, stouts, lagers, and ciders stretch across a bar that nearly spans the room.
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Rank 98. The Rake Bar
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Rank 98. The Seven Jokers
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Rank 98. The White Horse
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