A Fábrica da Picaria
Rua da Picaria 72, 4050-477 Porto
Calls itself Porto's first brewpub: beer is brewed on site and you can drink it straight from the fermentation tanks, with tables set among the brewing kit. There are about nine house taps (IPAs, stouts, red ales), and the food runs to francesinha, bifanas, cachorrinhos and burgers. Google lists Monday to Friday 5pm to midnight and Saturday and Sunday 1pm to midnight.
Armazém da Cerveja
Rua Formosa 130, 4000-254 Porto
The 'beer warehouse': a craft beer bar and bottle shop near the Bolhão market, open since April 2017. It has about a dozen rotating taps, including its own house pilsner, and coolers of Portuguese and European cans and bottles to drink in or take away. There's a back garden and board games, and you're welcome to bring food. Open Monday to Thursday 5pm to midnight, Friday and Saturday 4pm to 1am, and Sunday 4pm to midnight.
Baobab Craft Beer Bar
Rua do Almada 377, 4000-303 Porto
Small, friendly craft beer bar on Rua do Almada, run by a Slovak couple since 2022. It has eight rotating taps and a fridge of more than 100 cans and bottles from Portugal and across Europe. Staff let you taste before you choose. Snacks are simple: marinated cheese, tinned sardines and cured meats. Google lists it open every day from 4pm to 11:30pm.
Cask – Tough Love Taproom Porto
Rua da Arménia 54, 4050-066 Porto
Down by the river in Miragaia, the Porto bar of Tough Love, a brewery from Esmoriz near Aveiro. It has 13 rotating taps of Portuguese beer and fridges of hard-to-find international cans (the bar has stocked the likes of Lervig and Ārpus). The food is fried bar snacks. Open Monday to Thursday 4pm to midnight, Friday 4pm to 1am, Saturday 2pm to 1am and Sunday 2pm to midnight.
Catraio Craft Beer Shop & Bar
Rua de Cedofeita 256, 4050-174 Porto
Porto's first craft beer bar, opened on 31 January 2015 by Beatriz Afonso and Ricardo Queirós: a bottle shop and bar with a strong focus on Portuguese craft beer, rotating taps and a beer garden at the back as well as tables on pedestrianised Rua de Cedofeita. Open Monday to Thursday 5pm to 11:30pm, Friday and Saturday 5pm to 12:30am, and closed on Sunday.
Caves Cálem
Avenida de Diogo Leite 344, 4400-111 Vila Nova de Gaia
Not beer: the riverside cellars of Cálem, a Port house founded in 1859, beside the Dom Luís I bridge. Visits combine an interactive museum, a guided tour of the cellars and a tasting. There are evening fado visits, and a wine bar with tasting flights and Port by the glass. Open every day from 10am to 7pm (closed 25 December and 1 January). The last standard tour starts at about 5:40pm.
Cerveja Dos Diabos
Rua de Pinto Bessa 122, Armazém 2, 4300-427 Porto
Independent beer brand brewing in Porto, with its own brewery taproom and beer garden in an industrial warehouse in Campanhã: brewing, bar, kitchen and a beer garden down the stairs, all one space. Its range runs from brown ale and porter to American pale ales and imperial IPA. Open Wednesday to Sunday from 4pm (BeerTour.ist lists closing at midnight Wednesday and Thursday, 1am Friday and Saturday, and 10pm Sunday).
Cervejaria do Carmo
Praça de Carlos Alberto 124, 4050-159 Porto
Wood-panelled craft beer house on Praça de Carlos Alberto, near the Carmo church, pouring Portuguese craft beer since 2016. It has more than 10 draught lines, rotating national and international beers, plus a big bottle list, toasties and cheese and charcuterie boards. Its own site lists Monday to Thursday 4pm to midnight, Friday and Saturday 2pm to 2am, and closed on Sunday.
Cervejaria Nortada
Rua de Sá da Bandeira 210, 4000-427 Porto
Big two-floor brewpub of Porto's Nortada beer brand, opened in 2017 with the brewing kit on show. Nortada beer is the only beer served: seven core beers on tap or in bottles. Since a 2024 relaunch the kitchen has been run with chef Chakall, serving sharing plates and fuller meals. Open Sunday to Thursday noon to midnight, and Friday and Saturday noon to 1am.
Espaço Porto Cruz
Largo Miguel Bombarda 23, 4400-222 Vila Nova de Gaia
Not beer: Porto Cruz's Port wine centre in a restored 18th-century building on the Gaia riverside. It has a wine shop and tasting room on the ground floor, exhibitions, the deCastro Gaia restaurant, and the Terrace Lounge 360º rooftop bar, which looks over the Douro to the Ribeira and serves Port and Port cocktails. The terrace is open Tuesday to Saturday 12:30pm to midnight and Sunday 12:30pm to 7pm.
Gulden Draak Bierhuis Porto
Rua de José Falcão 82, 4050-315 Porto
Belgian beer house that opened on 9 February 2018: the first Gulden Draak bierhuis in Portugal and the second in the world, after Prague. It has 16 beers on draught and more than 200 bottles, mostly Belgian (Gulden Draak and its brewery's other beers) with some German, Dutch and Portuguese ones. Open Sunday to Thursday 5pm to midnight, and Friday and Saturday 5pm to 2am.
Letraria Porto Downtown
Rua dos Mártires da Liberdade 108, 4000-483 Porto
City-centre bar, restaurant and terrace of Letra, the Minho craft brewery from Vila Verde. It opened on 17 February 2024 and has 22 taps of Letra and guest beers, with petiscos (Portuguese small plates) to share. Untappd lists Monday to Thursday 4pm to midnight and Friday to Sunday 1pm to midnight (Letra's own page doesn't publish hours).
Musa das Virtudes
Passeio das Virtudes 28, 4050-629 Porto
The Porto bar of Lisbon brewer Musa, with 15 taps of its beers and guests and a terrace facing the Passeio das Virtudes, Porto's favourite sunset spot over the Douro. Musa's own site lists Monday to Thursday 3pm to 11:30pm, Friday 3pm to midnight, Saturday 12:30pm to midnight and Sunday 12:30pm to 11:30pm. The kitchen runs from 4pm on weekdays and 1pm at weekends.
Quevedo Port Lodge
Rua de Santa Marinha 77, 4400-291 Vila Nova de Gaia
Not beer: the Gaia tasting room and wine bar of Quevedo, a family Port and Douro wine producer. It's in a 200-year-old former cooperage two minutes up from the river. You can walk in for Port flights, a Port tonic or small plates, or book a seated tasting. Open every day, noon to 8pm from April to November and 11am to 7pm from December to March. Closed on 25 December.
Sigilo Craft Beer Bar Wine & Garden
Rua da Alegria 101, 4000-042 Porto
Hidden craft beer bar with a rustic back garden (string lights, mismatched furniture) in the building that was Letraria's Craft Beer Garden until 2024. It pours a rotating Portuguese tap list, including its own No Sigilo pilsner, plus wine, and has regular live music. Open Monday to Thursday 4pm to midnight, Friday and Saturday 4pm to 1am, and Sunday 4pm to 11pm.