Ten Latvian taps, roughly 130 Latvian bottles and cans, and two brothers pouring all of it. Alus Muiža has held Ģertrūdes iela 45 since the mid 2010s and doubled its floor space in the summer of 2017.
The name means Beer Manor. The mission is narrower than the name: Untappd counts 127 of 132 menu items brewed in Latvia, the most committed all Latvian list in the city centre.
In Your Pocket calls it perhaps the city centre's cosiest watering hole. The brothers pour every beer themselves.
One wooden room with raised tables, reed mats on the walls, and colored light. Reviewers reach for the same comparisons: log cabin, dacha, beach bar. The 2017 expansion added a second connected space, and summer adds a curbside terrace.
There is no kitchen. Salted peanuts and crisps are the food program; regulars carry in pizza from across the street and nobody minds.
Local craft drinkers plus beer tourists working the Untappd map; the venue logs 12,760 check ins and 177 in the last month alone.
Doors open at 4pm, so the early evening hour is the calm one. Summer terrace seats fill first.
Ģertrūdes iela 45 sits a 12 minute walk east of Old Town in the Quiet Centre. Doors at 4pm daily, and the room is small enough that a group of eight should come early.
What to order
- 01
Tērvetes pale lager
- 02
An Ārpus tap or fridge sour
- 03
Mūrbūdu dry cider