Formerly Gulating, this is where you can buy a wide range of cract beer from all over Norway and further beyond, as long as those beers aren’t stronger than 4.7% ABV.
They brew fine beers, and they keep a fine cellar of beers from many a country as well as other Norwegian brewers. The food is absolutely top notch. They also brew at Nydalen Bryggeri & Spiseri.
Whatever you do there, check it out, specially in winter when there's "action" in the fireplace. A very special experience.
Aye Aye is a brand new acquaintance for me. Located at the part of Storgata most people may have forgotten, they have a good collection of bottled beers. But go here for the food, it's great stuff.
Oslo's smallest bar? Got to love it though. It gets crowded, but some people like that. Obviously not a lot of choices for beer, but they have Frydenlund and usually good music.
Pretty good selection of beers, good looking place, but not what I’d call a craft beer crowd.
I'm not very keen on football and all that shouting at a screen while drinking macro lagers. But if I had to, I'd do it here. Really good place this, and quiznights here are good fun!
A yellow building in Markveien 57 houses Oslo's very own BrewDog bar. You'll find a bar living up to its name and heritage, but no name, or logo (this is Norway) Friendly staff and great hotwings!
Considering the street it lies in, I can only wish Brewgata the best of luck. They quickly adopted a presence on Untappd with a badge and all, and the beer list is worth a random visit... But Brugata?
Brygg opened in late August 2017. It is a big place, combined beer palace, coffee bar, brewery hotel, pop-up restaurants and adult playground. Drink from 40 taps, the bottlebar or brew your own beer.
A favorite of mine since around the days I was old enough to go out and have a pint. They make a fine burgers and have a growing selection of craft beer, and sometimes exclusives made for the bar!
This is a fun cafe. Good selection of beer, I like the food and the formica interior with hints of diner. You might want to avoid the breastfeeding hours (you'll notice all the babystrollers ouside).
Another old gem. Lovely interior. Lot of upmarked people (as in celebs etc). Good selection of beer, amazing onion soup.
A few meters from Bislett Stadium, is this lovely little cafe. They have a really good selection of beers, some which you may not find elsewhere (in Oslo). Watch people walk by. Drink Belgian beers.
A nice rustic place, good backyard, very good selection of beers, good looking crowd at most times, but the big pluss is a big menu and kitchen that stays open really late. A few yards from Crowbar.
Sort of a, modern rustique, kind of place. A fair amount of good beers to choose from, and from the looks, and smell, whopping big and tasty burgers. I will have to return and check it out.
Crowbar opened in 2012 and has quickly become a popular destination for thirsty people in the lower end of Torggata. Decorwise not unlike Moeder Lambic in Brussels, it sports 20 ever changing taps.
A good place for a proper burger. Lot of tweens and hipsters, but a very good Oslo experience. Backyard is good fun as well.
Not really a place I'd go out of my way for in the past, but I made a return visit with a friend of mine a couple of weeks back, and now it its quite nice. Middle of the road beer selection.
I have been avoiding Dr. Jekyll's because the place gets "nightclubish" in the weekends, and I don't like explaining myself to bouncers half my age. However, it has become yet another beer nirvana!
In one of Oslo's really old buildings from the relocation and renaming of the town in the 1600's. Great place, pricey, but with some good food and that irish fix when you need it.
If you want a beer on an island, head down to Aler Brygge/Rådhusbrygga and take the ferry to Gressholmen. Less than 10 minutes walk and you’ll find the ‘Kro’. Recently refurbished small beer selection
Great selection of beers, really good interior, people who know and love beer. In 2013 they got around to brewing their own beer, after initially outsourcing it elsewhere. Pricey, in relative terms.
On Saturdays you can head over to the GB's brewery where they hold open house. Grab a beer, maybe talk to the brewers and look at where the magic happens. The site of festivals and also a bottle-shop.
The thing about Heim is that it used to be Collets Cafe, it meant a lot to me personally Now it's quite hip, burgers, craft beer and so on, but nothing that says chose me! Pricey, great part of town.
My Danish hero Mikkel Borg Bjergsø has bestowed upon us in the far north a Mikkeller Bar. And it is a gem, looks the part, has a great selection but is called Henry & Sally's. Norwegian alcohol laws.
Essentially Øltorget with a new name. Still, it means you can, once more, go to 'Mathallen' and drink some proper beers.
From divebar to a place with craft beer. Hytta (Norwegian for 'the cabin') is still small and intimate.
Opened in late 2017, on the corner of Youngstorget and Torggata. The craft beers are located behind the the main bar and tap.takeover for one brewer at the time is the callingcard of Håndslag.
They have beer, but obviously you go here for the burger. So, maybe not fitting to this list, but hey, nothing beats a great burger after good beer. They now have their own Mikkeller beer.
Aker Brygge has been extensively rebuilt, and this place just opened up on the corner of the first "street". Yet another gastropub in the Amundsen family, it has a middle of the road beer selection.
This heavy Metal themed bar has moved since I was here last (the old bar is now the new Mikkeller Bar) and I haven't been to the new one yet, but I'm sure its still headbanging fun!
Kverneriet deserves a place on this list because it has a very well balanced list of beers and AMAZING burgers! I go here before I head to the movies, and it is just perfect every time.
A hangout in Oslo's more expensive neighborhood. You won't think so on the inside. Very reasonable beer prices, customers are in their 40s and up and seem to be there all the time.
Finally managed to get here in the summer of 2022 and Inreslly liked it. The bar and wibe is actually kind of BrewDog-ish.
Now that the original Munchies is closed, and they wait to open a new place on Youngstorget in the fall 2019, you have to go to Grünerløkka for these amazing burgers. Or Munchies Solli.
I have added this place to my beer safari because this neighbourhood really needs a place where you can have a beer. It leans towards the cava crowd and is prisey but the beer fridge is quite good.
After a devestating fire it has risen like some bird that rises, Phoenix or something. Place looks just as good as before and they've properly started brewing. A must visit for beer geeks!
Opened in August 2013. This is Amundsen spreading its beer wings across town in Nydalen. With brewers from both Amundsen and Schouskjelleren they seem to be a runaway success. A reason to go up north!
Olympen is for the second time in a decade bankrupt as of May 2023, we’ll have to see what happens to this wonderful place.
A lot of sports on a lot of screens. Not a lot of choice for beer, but it's got that irish feeling of sorts, and it's very handy on the way to and from other places.
It's in the east part of the city, and looks workingclass (old mechanical workshop) and people you'd like to know head here. But it's not cheap, and it is not brown. It's in fact cool with good beer.
From 1989, Scandinavias oldest brewpub. They make a standard set of beers, but have lately added IPA, new stouts and dubbel. Good looking place, good natured people and a tramstop on the doorstep!
Old cinema (I saw 2001 here when I was 7... I was NOT a happy camper). Good selection of beers, good place to sit outside. A real must when you visit Grünerløkka.
An ok place, very crowded outside, good collection of norwegian microbrews on tap, near a lot of things (not least Rockefeller and Sentrum).
On Youngstorget in the old bazaar. A really nice hangout, love the photo's of World leaders and other "scum" on the wall. Not a huge beer selection but great place to sit outside and I love the pizza.
Not a good selection of beer, smells a bit, dark and the toilets aren't very nice. But you end up enjoying it in good company. Quite cheap lager. Some good talent show up on open mic night.
Revolver, what to say? Bar, rustic, or is it bohemian? Mod, Teddy boys, hipster, not sure. They have an ok beer selection and all, but persnally I tend to stay down in Torggata.
RG opened in Feb. 2015 when the refurbished Østbanehallen (old train-station) re-opened. Despite "burning tables" it is all quite familiar, RG is the youngest member of the Amundsen family. Expensive.
Røør opened its doors in the Summer of 2017. It is an absolute must for any craft beer geek. The bar sports 60 taps downstairs, 10 upstairs, a well stocked fridge and they play great vinyl records!
An absolute favorite of mine. This place has it all. They brew their own beers, 6-8 on tap all the time, same number of guest beers on tap, and lots in the fridge. Great looking place as well!
I won't lie and say The Scotsman is a hangout of mine, lying right smack in Karl Johan street and all, but it has made a real effort to be relevant when it comes to beer, that makes it worth while.
A bit further north, on the "outskirsts" of Grünerløkka. This is a 'hyggelig' neighbourhood haunt with fair prices. It is irish, which is as good as anything, for what is a Norwegian pub?
A somewhat "regular" bar with perhaps the better looking crowd as its customer base, it sports great outdoor sofa seating near Akershus castle and a 3-4 pages long beer bottle list.
A fun diner/bar underneath Mathallen, it sports a looong bar, some beers made specially for this place, a good collection of Norwegian craftbeers, and some good, solid food.
Has had a facelift since I was here last. A little less "ladsy" than before, but it is still a football hangout.
Small, in a street I try to avoid, but fun and real! Not a lot of beers, but not pricey either.
This is a fun place. In the old bath on Torggata, next to Rockefeller (same building). Old games, and "pimped out" with old flipper glass screens. A very good collection of beers on tap and bottle.
Vinmonopolets flagship store in Oslo moved "across" the street to Aker Brygge in January 2015. They now sport cooled rooms for their relatively large beer selection.
Yes, a sportsbar, but with nice corners to sit and have a conversation. Also, it was redecorated recently. Ok prices, nice grown-up clientel in a part of town you might not always think to go.
Not a bar with a great selection of beers, but rather a typical Oslo local, with an Untappd badge thrown in for good measure (May, 2018).
Quite swanky, the food menu looks fun, got some good craft beer and nice people working here, but in the middle of Karl Johan Street, cheap it ain't.
Adjacent to the Dubliner, this place now boasts a fine collection of beers, bottled and draft, as well.
