The Quest for the Holy Grain - Best Beer Bars
Finland

 

 

 

 

Tommyknocker
Craft Beer Bar
Iso Roobertinkatu 13
Helsinki 00120
Tel. +358 50 5680084

Tommyknocker Brewery of Colorado is now exporting its image overseas...to Helsinki, in the form of Tommyknocker Craft Beer Bar.
It is owned by Captol Invest, a Finnish restaurant group. For now the deal seems to be that the venue just uses Tommyknocker's name and imagery, as they had no Tommyknocker beers on tap during my visit.
At that time, there were 8 drafts, two of which were American.
They were somewhat expensive.
The place was not crowded at the time that I was there.

 

 

 

Black Door
Iso Roobertinkatu 1
00120 Helsinki
Finland
+358 50 4064614

Black Door is a bar in downtown Helsinki.
They have about 25 taps, and many of them are your standard English lager exports.
They refer to themselves on their website as the Beer Lovers' Living Room.
The staff can help you with your beer selection if not too crowded.
If you want a sampling, you can order four .1 Liter samples for about 10 Euros.
As one patron put it, Black Door is
"a nice little boozer with a vast choice of beer on tap."