What Alus Muiža Is
Ten Latvian taps, roughly 130 Latvian bottles and cans, and two brothers pouring all of it. Alus Muiža has held Ģertrūdes iela 45 since the mid 2010s and doubled its floor space in the summer of 2017.
The name means Beer Manor. The mission is narrower than the name: Untappd counts 127 of 132 menu items brewed in Latvia, the most committed all Latvian list in the city centre.
In Your Pocket calls it perhaps the city centre's cosiest watering hole. The brothers pour every beer themselves.
Reading the Room
One wooden room with raised tables, reed mats on the walls, and colored light. Reviewers reach for the same comparisons: log cabin, dacha, beach bar. The 2017 expansion added a second connected space, and summer adds a curbside terrace.
There is no kitchen. Salted peanuts and crisps are the food program; regulars carry in pizza from across the street and nobody minds.
What to Order
Inside Alus Muiža
Who Shows Up, and When
Local craft drinkers plus beer tourists working the Untappd map; the venue logs 12,760 check ins and 177 in the last month alone.
Doors open at 4pm, so the early evening hour is the calm one. Summer terrace seats fill first.
What Regulars Say
- “Best craft beer bar in Riga. Good selection of local craft and great staff... the patrons are true beer lovers,” per a Google Maps reviewer.
- In Your Pocket credits “a comfy, almost beach bar atmosphere that's only trumped by its selection of Latvian craft brews on draught.”
- The recurring tip: raid the fridges for the Ārpus and ODU fruit sours.
Who It Is For
- Drinkers who want the Latvian beer map in one room instead of a brewery crawl.
- Anyone filling a growler; takeaway litres start at 5 euros and run to 3 litre bottles.
- Skip it if you need food beyond peanuts. Eat first, then settle in.
Before You Go
Ģertrūdes iela 45 sits a 12 minute walk east of Old Town in the Quiet Centre. Doors at 4pm daily, and the room is small enough that a group of eight should come early.
Compare the rest of the scene on our Riga craft beer list, or start where the locals start on the Miera iela route.
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