Where Aarhus drinks local: brewpubs, taprooms and the new wave.
Taprooms, brewpubs and the local beer scene in Aarhus worth taking a tram to.
Aarhus's original microbrewery in a medieval vaulted cellar beneath the Latin Quarter. Open since 1990, it was the first modern brewpub in Denmark. The house Clement Pilsner is brewed on-site and poured alongside a seasonal rotation of stout, porter and pale ale.
Aarhus Bryghus is the city's largest craft brewery, producing a core range of lager, IPA and wheat beer alongside experimental seasonal releases. The taproom in Viby J opens Friday-Saturday for tasting pours; brewery tours run on Saturday afternoons.
The Aarhus outpost of the Copenhagen craft beer brand with twenty rotating taps of Mikkeller production and guest beers from international craft breweries. The experimental and collaboration releases appear here before the main Copenhagen venues.
A production brewery south of the city centre with a small taproom open weekends. The Scandinavian lager and dry-hopped saison are the flagship beers; the summer sour programme using local fruit is a seasonal highlight.
Denmark's only certified organic craft brewery operates from Funen, a two-hour drive from Aarhus, but its beers are sold throughout Jutland and the taproom opens Saturday with guided tours. The organic pilsner and the rye ale are the standouts.
A farmhouse brewery in West Jutland producing traditional Danish farmhouse ale and porter. The beers use Jutland grain and herbs from the surrounding heathland; a day trip from Aarhus for serious beer tourists.
A neighbourhood nanobrewery in the northern part of the city that brews session IPAs and unfiltered wheat beer for its Thursday-Friday taproom. The unfiltered wheat is the most distinctive product in the lineup.
Silkeborg Bryghus is a craft microbrewery 40 minutes west of Aarhus, set inside the historic Papirfabrikken arts complex. The taproom pours the full range of house-brewed lager, IPA and seasonal one-offs alongside local food truck evenings on weekends.
Carlsberg's Aarhus regional distribution centre is not a visitor destination, but the brand's ubiquitous pilsner underpins the city's everyday beer culture. The Carlsberg Pilsner poured at every bodega and bar in the city is the baseline against which all craft beer is measured.
A city-centre microbrewery and taproom producing small-batch seasonal ales with a rotating experimental programme. The butterfly-labelled releases change monthly and the taproom attracts the city's beer geek community on weekend evenings.