Siebenstern Brau holds an address at Siebensterngasse 19 in Vienna's Neubau district, a short walk off Mariahilfer Strasse, and has brewed its own beer on the premises since 1994. The house calls itself the 7Stern Brau, and three decades of brewing in a single courtyard building put it among the longest-running brewpubs in the city centre.
The brewpub suits drinkers who want house beer poured a few metres from the tanks, in a plain wood-panelled room with a courtyard garden at the back. It works less well for anyone after cocktails or a quiet date, because the draw is the brewing and the long communal tables rather than a polished bar programme.
The range is the reason to come. BeerAdvocate lists the house under its Siebensternbrau profile and notes a rotating set of styles that runs well past the usual Helles and Marzen, including smoked, hemp and chilli beers that the brewery has poured across the years. The European Bar Guide describes 7Stern as a brewery that has earned international notice for exactly these unusual brews, which is rare for a venue this far inside a residential district.
The room reads as a working Vienna Gasthaus rather than a show brewery. The courtyard garden is the seat to ask for in summer, screened from the street and quieter than the Mariahilfer Strasse crowds a block away. Inside, the brewing kit sits in view, and the long tables fill with a mix of locals and beer travellers who came for the tap list.
On the food side the kitchen keeps to Austrian pub plates built to sit under the beer, the schnitzel-and-goulash register that Vienna brewpubs run on. Falter's Vienna listing files it among the city's established brewpub kitchens, and the pairing of house beer with heavy plates is the format the place has held since the 1990s.
The crowd runs local and beer-led, heavier in the evenings and on warm nights when the courtyard opens up. Reviewers on Yelp, where the page has carried more than a hundred entries through May 2026, return for the house range and the garden rather than for any single signature drink, which fits a brewpub that changes what is on tap.
Best time to go is a weekday evening or a summer afternoon in the courtyard, when the garden is open and the tank-fresh beer is the point. The kitchen runs until late, an hour before close, so it works as a full dinner stop as well as a drinks one. Weekends fill earlier and the long tables tighten up.
What keeps Siebenstern Brau relevant after thirty years is that it has stayed a brewery first, pouring its own beer in its own building rather than buying in kegs like the bars around it. That focus, plus a tap list willing to run odd styles most Vienna kitchens would never attempt, gives it a clear identity in a district full of cafes and wine bars. For anyone working through the city's house breweries, it belongs near the top of the list, and it sits comfortably alongside the other addresses in our Vienna bar guide and our craft beer picks.
What regulars flag most is the garden and the rotating tap rather than the kitchen, which reads as solid Vienna pub fare without pretending to more. The Bier Guide listing notes the house has held its courtyard-brewery character through Neubau’s shift from quiet residential streets to one of the city’s busiest shopping and gallery quarters, and that the beer has stayed the constant while the district changed around it. For a first visit, the move is a house Helles or whatever seasonal style is pouring, taken in the garden with a plate of schnitzel, before working out which of the odder brews is on that week.
Pair a visit with the nearby Wieden Bräu for a two-brewery afternoon across the inner districts, or read the rest of the city's beer scene through the craft beer cluster.
Sources: 7Stern Brau official site; BeerAdvocate (Siebensternbrau profile); The European Bar Guide; Falter Vienna; Yelp (updated 2026).
