Craft Beer Berlin 2026: Breweries, Beer Gardens & Tours Guide
Discover Berlin's craft beer scene like a local: hidden breweries, beer yoga, a historical brewery museum, and the city's best beer gardens. By BertaBerlin. Berlin has quietly become one of Europe's most interesting craft beer cities. In the last decade, dozens of independent breweries, tap rooms, and beer-focused spaces have opened — many of them hidden in courtyards, former industrial buildings, or unexpected corners of the city. This is a local guide to the Berlin beer scene, written by a Berliner, for people who want to discover the craft scene the way Berliners do: walking, tasting, and finding things off the tourist trail.
Below: five Berlin beer experiences I'd send my own friends to.
Beer Yoga in Neukölln
Two Good Things, Combined
You can drink beer. You can do yoga. But did you know there's a class in Berlin where you do both — at the same time? Beer Yoga (yes, that's really the name) combines two bottles of craft beer with a full yoga flow. The concept sounds like a joke, but it works: the exuberance of a cold beer plus the body awareness of yoga makes for an unexpectedly grounding evening. After years at ELSE, the class has now moved to Brauhaus Neulich in Neukölln — a small craft brewery with taps right at the studio.
Brauhaus Neulich, Selchower Str. 20, 12049 Berlin-Neukölln
Hopfenreich
Kreuzberg's First Craft Beer Bar
If you want to understand where Berlin's craft beer movement started, this is it. Hopfenreich opened as Berlin's very first dedicated craft beer bar and has been a pilgrimage site for hop heads ever since. The beer list rotates constantly — 22 taps pouring everything from German IPAs to experimental Berlin-brewed sours, with international guest kegs whenever something interesting lands in town. The bar is small, warm, and exactly the kind of place where the person pouring your beer actually knows what fermentation vessel it came out of. Go with an empty glass, leave with three new favourite breweries.
Sorauer Straße 31, 10997 Berlin-Kreuzberg
BrewDog Berlin Mitte
28 Taps in the Heart of the City
Five minutes from Mauerpark, in the middle of Mitte, BrewDog runs the craft-beer bar they opened in 2016 as their first outpost in Germany — and it still holds up. 28 taps of constantly rotating craft beer from Scotland, Berlin, and everywhere in between, plus bottles and cans for anything you can't find on draft that evening. The food is proper pub stuff (pizzas, vegan options, late-night burgers) and the crowd is a mix of beer tourists, after-work locals, and the "I'll just try one" crowd that ends up staying until close.If you want a second BrewDog on a different night, there's also BrewDog Berlin Friedrichshain near Frankfurter Tor (10 minutes from Boxhagener Platz) — same 28-tap format, heavier on burgers and wings.
Ackerstraße 29, 10115 Berlin-Mitte
drink.brewdog.com ([email protected])
Mon–Thu 12–00, Fri–Sat 12–02, Sun 12–00
KINDL — Contemporary Art Inside a Former Brewery
Not every Berlin brewery still brews. Some have become something else entirely. The KINDL — Centre for Contemporary Art lives inside the vast halls of the former Kindl brewery in Neukölln, and since 2016 it has been one of the city's most architecturally striking art venues. The old copper brew kettles are still there. The art shown around them is some of the most ambitious international contemporary work in Berlin. In the grounds you'll also find Café Babette (formerly König Otto), the beer garden that sits in the former brewhouse — a rare chance to drink beer under the same roof where it was brewed for a century.
Am Sudhaus 3, 12053 Berlin-Neukölln
www.kindl-berlin.de ([email protected])
Gallery Wed–Sun 12–18 ·
Beer garden Tue–Fri 14–22, Sat 13–22, Sun 12–20
A Brewery Without Beer — The Deutsches Technikmuseum
Finally, one for the curious: a brewery where nobody's allowed to drink. The Deutsches Technikmuseum (German Museum of Technology) hosts a fully preserved historical brewery inside the building, complete with copper kettles, cooling tanks, and 19th-century brewing equipment. Beer has a 6,000-year history, and this exhibition walks you through the technology that made German beer what it is. Free guided tours of the historical brewery run regularly — check the website for the current schedule. It's the single best place in Berlin to understand *why* German beer tastes like it does.
Trebbiner Straße 9, 10963 Berlin-Kreuzberg
Tue–Fri 9:00–17:30, Sat–Sun 10:00–18:00
Want More Berlin Beer Tips? I write regularly about the city's hidden gems — from the best beer gardens for a sunny afternoon to walking tours through hop-heavy neighbourhoods. If you want more:
- Top 5 beer places in Berlin
- Beer tour through Berlin
- Top 5 beer spots in Berlin
- Top 5 beer gardens in Berlin
- How to enjoy good German beer in Berlin!
- Which beer type are you?
And if you want to take Berlin with you: my BeerBerlin mapmaps every spot above (plus 30+ more) onto three walking routes through the city. Made in Berlin, by a Berliner.
Discover Berlin like a local.
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