Beer in Warsaw

It’s easy to forget how far Warsaw has come on its beer journey. From having no multi-tap bars four years ago, there are now more than fifty of the things. They’re even popping up in the suburbs. Inspired by the map function on the utterly excellent  ontap.pl , we booked an Uber to the wilds of Wola with a route plotted out to deepest darkest Bemowo. Yes, it is easy to miss First stop was Beczka Chmielu Pub at Wolska 89. Behind the unassuming single-window shop front that’s all too easy to miss is this smallish place: just seven seats in the front room, along with a small fridge and a short, rather low bar that’s clearly intended for ordering at rather than propping up. But behind that bar are eleven taps, Polish and Lithuanian beers and a cider, all at prices a notch or two lower than city centre bars. The decor is also fairly simple and low key, lots of exposed brick work and retro orange lights, a theme continued into the larger back room which has seats for about 30 peo...

Lviv is an awesome city; even on a grey rainy Sunday in autumn, it’s utterly superb. Unfortunately, the beer scene is less wonderful, it’s mostly macro-lager that is very cheap (half a litre in a neighbourhood bar is about 20 hryvni, which is 3zl, £0.60) and, while not completely undrinkable like Polish macro rubbish, not really worth bothering with. In terms of good beer bars, your choices are basically Pradva Beer Theatre and this place. Not that that’s such a drawback: when a bar is as good as this one, you don’t need any other places to go.   Superb bar; rubbish photo. Anyway, here's your target. Two minutes from the Rynok, the old town location means that the seating is spread in four smallish rooms on the ground floor with more space upstairs, not sure how much space: I saw the stairs, then I saw the bar, you can guess which drew more attention. There are 16 taps to choose from, although two of those are given over exclusively to ciders (and those two seemed to hav...