Beer Museum

If you like beer, then you’ll love the Portuguese Beer Museum

The Beer Museum ( Museu da Cerveja) traces the history of the Portuguese beer industry and you’ll be pleasantly surprised to learn that there is a lot more to Portuguese beer than Super Bock and Sagres (although both are very nice!).

The museum puts on a guided tour and your expert will bring you through the ages of brewing, demonstrating how brewing beer started over 7,000 years ago and has developed using the modern techniques we see today.

The beer museum has reconstructed a monastic cellar depicting monks in the middle ages in times when they brewed beer to keep them fed and warm during fasting periods and they have also recovered industrial tools and glassware to help you understand how techniques improved and changed in the early 20th century.

At the end of the tour you will be invited to choose a bottle Portuguese beer to taste for yourself and the guide will explain its complexity and the region of Portugal where it comes from.

When the tour ends you can stay at the public bar and have a drink at the “Beer Alter” (see photos below) and also indulge in a local delicacy which are warm codfish cakes with a cheese filling.

The Beer Museum is located at Praça do Comércio and there is also a fantastic terrace outside where you can sip on a cold beer and watch the world go by.

Tours are from 12:00 to 21:00 and the cost is €7.00 per person which includes a free bottle of beer. The terrace and restaurant remain open until midnight and food is available.

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