Brygg pours from more than forty taps at Storgata 7 in central Oslo, a short walk from Youngstorget. The bar opened in late August 2017 as a tap house built around a long draught wall, a bottle list, and shuffleboard tables upstairs, and it has stayed a fixture of the city's beer map since.
Who would love it: drinkers who want range, from local pale ales to ciders and sours, in one central room. Who would hate it: anyone after table service or a cocktail programme, since this is a self-directed beer bar where the board does the talking.
The space runs over two floors, with the main bar and its tap wall at street level and the shuffleboard and overflow seating above. VisitOslo groups it with the city's microbrewery-adjacent tap houses, and its Storgata address keeps it walkable from both the centre and the southern edge of Grünerløkka. The fit-out is plain and beer-first rather than designed for the camera.
The draught list is the draw, rotating across Norwegian and imported brewers with more than fifty selections counted by reviewers when ciders and sours are included. Oslo beer pricing is steep by international standards, with a third-of-a-litre pour of a strong local IPA often landing near 100 to 120 kroner, so the smaller measures are the smart way to taste widely. The kitchen keeps it simple with bar food built to pair.
Order a flight or a couple of smaller pours to move across the board rather than committing to one pint, the better way to read a forty-tap wall. Ask the staff for the freshest local keg, and take a turn on the shuffleboard upstairs between rounds. Skip the bottle list until the taps are exhausted.
The crowd is a beer-literate mix of after-work drinkers, visiting tickers, and groups in for the shuffleboard, and it builds through the evening on weekends. Tripadvisor and Untappd reviews repeat the same notes: a strong and well-kept selection, friendly staff, and steep prices that reviewers tie to Oslo rather than the bar. The room stays talkable even when full.
Best time to go is a weekday early evening, when the taps are fresh and a stool is easy, or a Friday from noon if the plan is a long session. The bar runs Monday to Thursday from 3pm and opens at noon Friday and Saturday, closing at 11pm midweek and midnight at weekends.
Who it is for: craft beer drinkers after breadth, after-work groups, and shuffleboard players. Who it is not for: cocktail seekers and anyone watching a tight budget.
The Storgata address puts it between Youngstorget and the lower edge of Grünerløkka, a few minutes on foot from the Jernbanetorget transport hub, so it works as a first stop before a move north into Løkka. The two-floor layout keeps the shuffleboard upstairs separate from the tap wall below, and groups can hold a table above without losing the bar.
What reviewers return to, across Tripadvisor and Untappd, is the turnover on the board: kegs change often enough that a repeat visit rarely repeats the list, which rewards the tickers who track Norwegian breweries. The trade-off is the price, which several reviews flag as steep even by Oslo standards, so the smaller pours and the early-evening visit are the value plays.
It works as the beer anchor of a central Oslo night. Browse the full Oslo bar guide, see where it lands among the best craft beer bars in Oslo, and compare it across the wider craft beer guide.
