Cerveja Independente Musa

I visited Musa's Marvila neighborhood brewery/taproom while exploring Lisbon a couple of weeks ago. On my visit they had 10 of their beers plus three guest taps: a pale, three IPAs, couple saisons, a pilsner, blonde, and a couple stouts. So, not a wide variety of styles per se, but 10 taps is pretty good for the breweries I visited in Iberia. The two IPAs I tried were decent enough, though nothing special, and the stand-out for me was the pilsner.

The vibe is kind of weird -- industrial in a nightclub kind of way. I was there after dark and the lights are dim with lots of colorful accent lights and neon-bright menu signs and flat grey tables, chairs, and bar. It really gives me an 80s vibe or a nightclub vibe or something. I'm not entirely against it, but it's pretty unfamiliar to me for a brewery. That said, there's windows into the brewhouse, which I always like when I'm at a brewery!

Service is pretty friendly. At least one of the bartenders is pretty fluent in English, so Portuguese is not a must to order here. There are a number of tourists here, although plenty of locals as well it seems. The've got a small kitchen with a bar-snacks kind of menu, though I didn't order anything.