Hours and price points verified May 2026. Confirm with the bar before travel.
Jeppe Jarnit-Bjergsø’s Twenty-One-Tap Greenpoint Beer Bar
Tørst opened on Manhattan Avenue in 2013, opened by Jeppe Jarnit-Bjergsø of Evil Twin Brewing and chef Daniel Burns. The bar is small — twenty seats at a marble counter, another twenty in the back room — and the central engineering decision sets it apart: each of the twenty-one taps is individually temperature-controlled by a flash-chiller, so saisons pour at 10 degrees while imperial stouts pour at 13, exactly where the brewer intended.
The list rotates aggressively. Jarnit-Bjergsø spent the previous decade as a gypsy-brewer travelling between European breweries, and the bar’s connections show on the board: Cantillon and 3 Fonteinen lambics, Mikkeller releases that don’t reach the rest of the city, Evil Twin’s own collaboration kegs, plus a working rotation of small US craft. The bottle list runs to a hundred and fifty more lines, mostly mixed-ferment and aged.
The adjoining restaurant Luksus was a Michelin-starred all-beer-paired tasting menu that ran from 2013 to 2019 and earned Burns the James Beard Rising Star Chef in 2015. Luksus is closed; Tørst still operates as the beer bar it always was. The room is white tile, light wood, no music to speak of — intentionally calm so the beer reads. Walk-ins until 7pm; pours are by 4oz, 8oz or 12oz.
Best Time to Visit
Wednesday from 6pm. The week’s new lines have landed and the room is at its calmest.
Who It Is For
Beer drinkers who want the deepest curation in New York and a temperature-controlled pour. Best for two; the back room takes four.
Tørst appears in our Top 25 craft beer bars in the US ranking. For wider coverage of the city, see our full New York craft beer bars guide and the Brooklyn bar guide.