Olutkellari Helsinki

8/2/2008 6:43:06 AM, saturday, august 02, 2008
An excellent bar with a fairly good location. An excellent range of beer with the strength being the range of Finnish and Swedish beers on draught. A good bottled selection too but be prepared to pay for it! The only negative aspect is the fact that it is rather dark and not good for appreciating the appearance of certain beers.

5/11/2008 5:13:57 PM, sunday, may 11, 2008 [ Updated saturday, july 26, 2008 ]
Not the place it used to be (a metal bar, which had decent live music), but I won’t complain too loudly if you promise to buy me a beer. Lovely cellar bar - large, but mostly of smallish alcoves. Good selection of nordic brews, and still the Stadin brews by name (and the current brewmaster is doing an excellent job). Knowledgeable staff, friendly, and they speak good English. Quite easy to find as long as you can find Senate Square on Aleksanterinkatu - head 200m to the right at the far right corner of the square.

4/15/2008 3:53:52 AM, tuesday, april 15, 2008
A quite nice and cozy pub, though a bit dark as it is in a cellar, and the lights aren’t the best. Selection was nice with micros from both Finland and Sweden on tap, as well as a nice selection of Danish and Norwegian micros bottled. Good thing is that there is a lot of space, so needs to be really lots of people to get it feeling crowded. Also carries real ale. The staff knew the beers they served and the ones sold out, they gave good recommendations on very similar beers.

3/7/2008 1:44:28 AM, friday, march 07, 2008 [ Updated thursday, april 24, 2008 ]
A promising new cellar pub close to the Senate square. The staff have been working at Delifox before, so they should know their stuff. In addition to the regular importers, they also have beers from Pikkulintu and Ultimator. Since this is the only real beerpub in the chain (the owners have a couple of regular pubs in the vicinity), the selection should be more open to suggestions than in other beerpubs near the city center - excluding One Pint, of course. There are plenty of rooms, a separate room for smoking, and a cabinet with a video projector, that you can rent for free (I suppose they expect you to spend on beers, though :). In all, a very welcome addition, and hopefully a lasting one!

3/6/2008 5:34:30 AM, thursday, march 06, 2008
New private beer pub in Helsinki. It is located in a big cellar in an old goverment house near the old downtown of Helsinki. The selection is nice, with beers on tap from micro breweries from Helsinki such as Stadin Panimo and Suomenlinnan Panimo. The beer list also contains some Danish micro-breweries + beers from Sweden, Belgium, Germany, England and Czech Republic. They also have one real ale tap.