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Last Updated : 04/10/08

ere's the beer gen we managed to uncover for Poznań.  It's an interesting city with a huge tram system (with some very interesting second-hand trams running) but it's the beer you care about so here's the gen...

My updated Google map for the city is here.

Pubs and bars.

Brovaria, Stary Rynek 73.  From 11:00 daily.

A boot. Find the main square, the Stary Rynek, and the brewpub is on the SW corner of it - you can't miss it especially at night.

A ranting mouth... Brewpub and hotel on Poznań's impressive main square.  Three beers are on sale, generally the excellent Jasne (pale) plus two specials.  These are advertised on posters both outside and in so you know what's available.  On our visit the others were a delicious Miodowe (honey) and very well-made Pszeniczne (wheat) which, unsurprisingly, wasn't to my taste!  There are three drinking areas; a cellar bar, ground floor bar and upstairs "beer hall" where the Salmbräu brew plant is located.

 
Proletaryat, Ul Wrocławska 9 (just S of stary rynek).  Open 16:00 onwards.

A boot. On the southside of the Stary Rynek Wrocławska heads south towards the Kościół Farny.  A hundred metres down the road, on the left, you'll see this small bar with it's huge bust of Comrade Vladimir Illich Lenin in the window.

A ranting mouth... Long bar with a slightly tacky Soviet theme yet still comfy and relatively full of locals.  Paintings of Lenin hang everywhere and it's notable that there are none (or none I saw) of a certain Josef Stalin.  The attraction here is not, unless you're a Red, the pictures but the two "house" beers from the local Czarnków brewery although whether they are different from the brewery's ordinary beers isn't clear.

 

U Honzika, ul. Stanisława Taczaka 21.  Weekdays from 10:00, Sat from 16:00.

A boot. On a nondescript road just north of the Stary Browar centre.  The pub is in a cellar on the right-hand side.

A ranting mouth... Hot, sweaty cellar bar with a very Czech-influenced beer list (it's billed as a "Českż pub") including lots of Zlatopramen and Černį Hora beers plus a fridge full of strange choices from Ukraine, Russia and other Eastern European countries.  Well worth a look if only for the Černį Hora beers, very rare this far east.  We scooped a Sun-Inbev unfiltered "white" beer from Chernigivski brewery, okay it's Inbev but I didn't know when I ordered it... honest!
 
 
Brogan’s Irish Pub, ul. Szewska 20a.  
 
A boot. Just off the NE corner of the Stary Rynek.
 
A ranting mouth... Has draught Zywiec porter - if you can put up with the fake "Oirishness".
 
 
Behemot Cafe i Kawiernia, Kramarska 16.
 
A boot. Small coffee bar and cafe just to the north of the Stary Rynek.

A ranting mouth... Coffee bar/cafe selling the rare but revolting Fortuna beers which taste like cola ! Useful for the desperate... well, I went there...  Don't order nachos unless you want a small dish of dorito-like crisps with spicy tomato sauce!

 
There's also a bar called Browar Pub, ul. Półwiejska 42, Stary Browar centre on floor -1, in the “malting section”.  It sounds like there may be some old brewing kit there although the beer range is probably just multinational crap and it's evenings only.  We didn't visit, so if it is in fact a brewpub then let me know, please... although I'd put money on it not being one.
 
 
Beer Shops.

Piotr i Paweł supermarket, ul. Półwiejska 42, Stary Browar centre.

A boot. Stary Browar centre, Atrium level -1.  Map.

A ranting mouth... This supermarket is situated on level -1 of the centre and has a surprisingly decent range of beers, although the Polish selection is distinctly poor.  Nevertheless, a few local scoops from Poland and lots of other random stuff from the UK, Germany, Belgium and the like; well worth a look for the best range in town (unless Koneser is actually open!).

 

Organic Farma Zdrowia, ul. Półwiejska 42, Stary Browar centre.

A boot. Stary Browar centre, Atrium level -1, almost next door to Piotr i PawełMap.

A ranting mouth... A small wholefood shop with only a couple of beers, but both were huge and the Konstancia Dawne especially is very rare. I can't guarantee any scoops, but it's on the same floor as Piotr i Paweł just along the corridor so you may as well have a look.

 

Alkohole shop, corner of Stanisława Taczaka and Franciszka Ratajczaka.

A boot. Close to U Honzika.

A ranting mouth... Notable amongst the mass of similar shops in selling the rare (and quite nice) Koreb beers in bottle.

 

Koneser, 86 Jana Henryka Dąbrowskiego. 

A boot.  Opposite Polna tramstop.

A ranting mouth...  This was originally a beer shop close to Stary Browar, now vanished, although we saw a bar with the same name (badged as a "Galeria Piwa") here - although it wasn't open on our visit. The window had a beer display, there was some kind of bar inside, but also plugs and cans of paint on the tables... any suggestions? It looked like it was either being made ready for opening or had closed for good! Reports please...

Food.
 
Chłopskie Jadło (Peasant Food), Stary Rynek 77.

A boot. Despite the address being on the Stary Rynek, it's somewhat of a misnomer.  Polish addresses are by the building, not door in the building, so despite this place being in a building which does indeed front onto the Stary Rynek the entrance is along Francziskįnska!

A ranting mouth... A kind of kitsch mock-up of a peasant's house (part of a large national chain) which serves a wide range of Polish staple meals such as Bigos and suchlike. It's all very formulaic and un-real but, despite this, the food isn't bad at all and it's pretty cheap and one of the best options in the city centre.

 

Bar Mleczny (Milk bar), Šwięty Marcin.

A boot. I can't remember the name of this place, but it's the only milk bar on this stretch of the street.

A ranting mouth... A Milk bar is a Polish institution where the locals fill up on cheap traditional food in a no-frills atmosphere, it's a similar thing to a British "greasy spoon" although with better food! They are a throwback to the Soviet times and cities apparently still subsidise their Milk bars for the benefit of the people. This one was pretty good on our visit to Poznan and is a good place to come for cheap and cheerful Polish food; Pierogi are around 4 to 5 PLN and rather good they were too. Everything in Polish, no English spoken, so be brave and get stuck in...

 
Brovaria Poznan 190908 Brovaria plant Poznan 190908 Huge Konstal 102n in Poznan 190908 Stary Browar Poznan 200809 Proletaryat bar Poznan 200908
Brovaria, Poznan Brovaria's Salmbrau plant, Poznan Huge Konstal 102n in Poznan The old brewery now shopping centre Stary Browar, Poznan Gazza, Lenin and the Proletaryat bar in Poznan
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