International
Austria
Sternbräu
A-6830 Rankweil
Austria
43-0-5522-44268
info@sternbrauerei.com
Former brewery, now imports British, Belgian, Swiss and German beers.
Belgium
Biertempel
56 Marché aux Herbes
Brussels
02-506-1906
Small store with unusually broad selection, just one block from Grand’Place.
Hopduvel
Rokerelsstraat 10
Ghent
A great beer house carries a shop and a warehouse of the same name in the city center. Lots of beers from small Belgian breweries. Also wholesale to restaurants, bars and importers.
De Caigny
Spijker 79
2910 Essen
03-667-7171
Good choice of especially Belgian beers (300): traditional gueuze, Cantillon, Girardin, Boon, all beers from “de Dolle”, Caracole, Achilles…
Willems & Zoon
Leopoldstraat 26
2280 Grobbendonk
Very good choice, mostly different beers than De Caigny. Cellar storage room!
Czech Republic
Pivni Galerie (Beer Gallery)
U Pruhonu 9
Prague—Holesovice
220-870-613
pivnigalerie@post.cz
This is the most utterly unassuming place. Anyone from a rich, degenerate western country should feel humbled to visit this totally unchanged, neighborhood store, where old comrades share a beer over back issues of Pravda and rejoice at their country’s membership of NATO and the G8.
Denmark
BarleyWine
Laederstarede 16
Copenhagen
www.barleywine.dk
Despite its name, this small shop specializes in Belgian beer. You can also find Danish beers, which are off the national mainstream of pale lagers.
Finland
Alko
Salomonkatu 1
Helsinki
www.alko.fi
Always sahti available. Also a wide range of Finnish and international (mainly European) bottled beers.
France
Bootlegger
82 rue de l’Ouest
Paris 14
Small shop with rarities from small regional French (and Canadian) breweries plus Belgian specialities.
Germany
Haus der 131 Biere
Karlshöhe 27
Hamburg 22175
Germany
www.biershop.de
www.haus-der-131-biere.de/
Beers from around the world, but focusing on lagers. A truly global selection which carries way more different beers than its name reveals. Also rarities from Africa and Asia, plus beer gifts.
Trink Gut
In north Germany, this chain has the best selection of German and some foreign beers. The employees are not trained to know anything about beer. That is quite normal here: the German who is not in the brewing industry knows very little about beer.
Japan
Tobu Department Store
1-1-25 Ikebukuro, Toshima-ku, Tokyo
Located on the B1 level of the Plaza-kan, in the F10 section
03-3981-2211 (switchboard)
Adjacent to JR Ikebukuro Station.
The Beer House
1-47-8 Minami-Magome, Ota-ku, Tokyo
03-3777-4561
Near Nishi-Magome Station on the Toei Asakusa Line
Kawachiya
30 Udagawacho, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
03-3462-6604
Near JR Shibuya Station and Shibuya Station on the Ginza and Hanzomon lines.
National Azabu Supermarket
4-5-2 Minami-Azabu, Minato-ku, Tokyo
03-3442-3186
Near Hiroo Station on the Hibiya subway line
Netherlands
De Bierkoning
Paleisstraat 125
1012 RB Amsterdam
020-625-2336
Good selection of Dutch, Belgian and rather rare German beers, mainly from Bamberg and Franconia.
Burg Bieren
Puttenseweg 45
3851 GB Ermelo (Gelderland)
0341-564934
Large selection of Dutch, Belgian, German and other international beers, also beers from the own demo brewery on the premises—every Saturday a small brew is produced. Beers are also available at the attached pub next door. Annual festival beginning of August.
De Bierwereld
Molenweg 281
6543 VE Nijmegen
024-373-2820
International selection of beers, including beers from the local home brew pub, De Hemel.
Van Erp
Grote Kromme Elleboog 16
9712 BK Groningen
050-312-6414
Bieren en Pintelieren
Pasqualinistraat 2
5622 AW Eindhoven
040-243-5422
Bert’s Bierhuis
Voorstraat 83
3512 AL Utrecht
030-234-1339
‘t Bierhuys
Gasthuislaan 40
2611 RB Delft
015-213-4047
De Man van Drank
Hartesteeg 13
2312 JW Leiden
071-512-2813
Norway
Great beer retail stores? In Norway? You must be joking. Norway probably has the worst / narrowest / smallest selection of beer types and beer labels available in Europe. All beers stronger than 4.75% alcohol are sold through governmental monopoly stores only.
Sweden
Systembolaget
Vasagatan 25
Stockholm
www.systembolaget.se
A good selection of beers from Swedish micros, also a big variety of international beers. Has a monopoly for selling alcoholic beverages stronger than 3.5% ABV.
United Kingdom
The Beer Shop
14 Pitfield St.London N1 6EY
020 7739 3701
www.pitfieldbeershop.co.uk
Close to Old Street Underground Station. Small shop in unfashionable part of London but with an amazing choice of British and beers from other countries. A flag-waver for Belgian beers from way back, now with a good choice of beers from most countries, including ones you never see elsewhere in Britain. Also on the site, the tiny Pitfield micro-brewery that concentrates on organic beers.
Utobeer
Borough Market
8 Southwark St.
London, SE1 1TL
info@utobeer.co.uk
Specialist company dealing in all aspects of beer, from selling you bottles of beer, through food produced from beer, to home brewing as well as a resource offering advice and assistance to those who believe beer has as much to offer as wine.
