Wieden Brau holds an address at Waaggasse 5 in Vienna's 4th district, a few minutes from Karlsplatz, and has brewed its own beer on site since 1991. The house bills itself as the first Wieden gasthaus brewery, and that claim to being the district's original brewpub is the line it has built its reputation on.
The place suits drinkers who want unfiltered house beer with a plate of Austrian food, in a courtyard garden hidden off the street. It works less well for anyone after a late club night or a cocktail list, because the format is a traditional brewery restaurant that closes around midnight at its latest.
The beer is brewed on the premises and poured young. The house range covers Helles, Marzen, Dunkel, Weizen and an IPA, and the brewery leans on its unfiltered, natural pours as the signature rather than any one bottled label. BeerAdvocate carries the Wieden Brau profile under its Vienna listings, and the Marzen is the malt-forward pour reviewers return to.
The room is the classic Vienna brewery format, a wood-lined Gasthaus with the inner-courtyard garden as the prize seat in warm months. The garden sits green and screened from the traffic on Waaggasse, and the brewery uses the space for monthly beer seminars and private events for groups of up to a hundred, per its own site.
On the plate the kitchen runs traditional Austrian cooking built to pair with the beer, Wiener Schnitzel, Backhendl, Erdapfelsalat and Brezn among them. Falter's Vienna listing files Wieden Brau among the district's long-standing brewery kitchens, and the pairing of house beer with these heavier plates is the whole point of the visit.
The crowd is local and steady, families and after-work groups in the early evening, beer-led drinkers later. The kitchen runs until 10:30pm most nights, so the room reads as a dinner-first brewery rather than a drinking den, which keeps the tone closer to a neighbourhood restaurant than a bar.
Best time to go is a warm evening with the courtyard garden open, when the young house beer and the screened-off seats are at their best. Friday and Saturday stretch to midnight, the latest the place runs, while Sunday closes earlier at 10:30pm. Booking ahead is worth it for the garden in summer.
What keeps Wieden Brau relevant after more than thirty years is that it has held to the gasthaus-brewery format without chasing trends, brewing its own beer in its own courtyard and serving it next to the Austrian plates it was built around. That consistency, plus the claim to being Wieden's first brewpub, gives it a fixed place on any Vienna beer route. It anchors the 4th-district stop in our Vienna bar guide and sits among the city's craft beer picks.
What regulars return for is the unfiltered house beer poured young and the courtyard garden, and the common note across listings is value: a full Austrian plate and a litre of fresh beer for the kind of price that keeps the room local rather than touristed. HolidayCheck and Quandoo entries both stress the garden and the traditional cooking over any single standout dish, which fits a brewery restaurant that has leaned on consistency for three decades. For a first visit, the move is the Marzen with a schnitzel in the garden, then a Dunkel or the Weizen to compare the range across a single sitting. The brewery also runs monthly beer seminars for drinkers who want to read the styles more closely, which is a rare offer among the city's gasthaus breweries.
Pair it with Siebenstern Bräu across in Neubau for a two-brewery afternoon, or read the wider scene through the craft beer cluster.
Sources: Wieden Brau official site; BeerAdvocate (Wieden Brau profile); Falter Vienna; Quandoo; Yelp (updated 2026).
