Budapest/Vienna suggestions

Hello all,
I will be in Vienna for two nights & five nights in Budapest beginning July 25.

Any suggestions regarding good beer spots for either location would be greatly appreciated, (I wasn't seeing any current information for either place in the forums). Thank you!

 

Awesome, thank you, I will check out all of them!

 

Looks interesting, I will check it out.
Thanks for posting!

 

Will do, hopefully I'll have this BA photo uploading thing sorted, so I can add pics

 

Hello all, I am following up on my time in Vienna. I made it to Ammutson this evening & I have to say, what a first rate craft beer bar! I would highly recommend a visit, if ever in Vienna.

The bar is located on a quiet side street about 1 mile from the city center, (easy walk).

The draft selection isn't massive, 12 rotating taps of well selected European beers, (first beer on the list was Cantillon 100% Lambic) Aus, Spain, Swiss, Croatia & Hungry represented at the moment, (a ticker posts upcoming beers from various locations). Someone does their homework w/ these draft selections! The beers were fresh & in excellent condition. Also, there is a very good bottle selection, several Cantillon bottles to choose from along w/ many other European craft beer.

Service was outstanding. One gal working when the bar opened & she handled the crowd as it grew to 20+ people. A second bartender arrived an hour later & didn't miss a step.

Overall, an outstanding beer experience! I love it when these things come together!

Off to Slovakia & Hungry over the next several days. I will report back, cheers!

 

I just returned to the states from my work trip to Austria/Slovakia/Hungry.
I touched on Vienna in a post above.

Slovakia & Budapest were interesting & enjoyable locations. We were in Trnava Slovakia for 2 nights. The Trnava beer scene is dominated by Czech Republic Pilsner Urquell, unfiltered & straight from the tank. All of the restaurants we visited provided proper & fresh pours for this fine beer!
Trnava also has the Sessler brewery. The brewery has a nice beer garden in a park like setting in the city's industrial area on the edge of town. The beers were decent, but nothing mind blowing, (their Czech dark lager was by far the best beer of the bunch). Overall, Trnava was a nice relatively small town with great food, coffee & beer.

From Slovakia we moved on to Budapest for five nights. On the first free day, I made my way to the Mad Garden Buda. The beer garden is an offsite location of the Mad Scientist Brewery.
Due to the off the beaten path location, this is defiantly not a popular tourist destination. But for a beer geek, it is well worth the adventure. A twenty minute train ride out of the city to District 10 Buda & a 20 minute GPS guided walk puts you near the location, I say near the location b/c Google Maps leaves you hanging a little. If you decide to visit, don't get discouraged by where GPS leads you, the brewery is on the backside of the building in a neighborhood setting, (just walk around to the back of the building & the garden entrance is there). There were 12 draft selections, (a wide range of ales & lagers) of which I sampled four. All the beers were very good and the service was first rate. Credit card & Hungarian Forints accepted, Euros not.

From there I returned to the city center to visit Jonas Kezmuves Sorhaz, (recommendation from @Redrover above). Unfortunately, this establishment is no more, (maybe a COVID victim). Too bad, it looked like it was a nice place.

Work kept me busy for the next 3 days, but I was able to breakaway the last afternoon & visit two other recommended locations, Gravity Brewery & CSAP SZEK bar (both within couple blocks of each other & well worth a visit to each). There were 14 draft beers available at Gravity. I had the Helles, Rye red & Imperial raspberry smoked porter. All three beers were outstanding. The Helles was one of the best I've ever had & I agree with @flagmantho ...the rye red was unique and fantastic.

A short walk from Gravity took me to a busy pedestrian street, lined with bars & restaurants, including CSAP SZEK craft beer bar. This is a true craft beer bar serving only beer from independent Hungarian breweries. Once again I took the advice of @flagmantho & drank the APA from Brew Your Mind Brewery. Wow, what an amazing mango forward APA, this beer was absolutely delicious. I only wish they would have had other beers from this brewery. My next beer was an Altbeer from a one man contract brewer in Budapest, Tacet Brewery, a very nice beer, true to the style. I had to finish my session with a return to the Brew Your Mind APA, then back to the hotel for the night.

Unfortunately I wasn't able to visit the other recommended locations, but I expect to be back within a year & will try the missed locations at that time & maybe sneak back & revisit these great bars & breweries!

Budapest is an awesome beer city and everything is within walking distance or an easy train ride away. Thanks for the great recommendations!

 

It was in the same spot on the river. I was able to look through the window & saw the sacked operation. Too bad, it’s a very nice area & would have been a great spot to enjoy a beer by the river!

I wasn’t aware of a new location. The spot I checked out was on the Pest side. Nothing I read directed me to the Buda side. Thanks for the information. Something to add for the next trip, cheers!

 

Hello all, I'm headed back to Budapest tomorrow for a week of work. I will definitely be visiting Gravity Brewery & CSAP SZEK beer bar again (very close to each other).

I will go back through the recommendations in this thread & try to visit the other spots, including Jonas Kezmuves Sorhaz, ( I found the new location) & Parabolic Lázárus Brewery.

Let me know if there are any new/old places to check out. Thanks!