Hungarian Beer Guide: From Traditional Lagers to Craft Revolution (2026)

📋 Hungarian Beer at a Glance

Field	Detail
Best For	Beer enthusiasts wanting authentic Hungarian brews beyond the usual tourist fare
Big Three Brands	Dreher (1854), Borsodi (1973), Soproni (1895)
Craft Beer Hub	District VII and the Kertész utca cluster
Price Range	Mainstream: 800-1,000 HUF ($2.55-3.20) in a local pub. Craft: 1,200-3,600 HUF ($3.80-11.40)
Must-Try Experience	The Dreher Sörtúra in Kőbánya, or KRAFT at Dürer Kert in September
Skip If	You’re strictly a wine person (though we have incredible wine bars too)

The Complicated Love Story Between Hungarians and Beer

Hungary is a wine country that drinks beer, and it has never quite made peace with that. Ask about the national drink and you get Tokaji or pálinka. Look at what is in the glass on a Tuesday evening in District VIII and it is a half-liter of lager costing less than a coffee in Vienna.

What tourists miss is that the interesting part is not the lager. It is the gap between the three industrial brands on every supermarket shelf and the taprooms that opened in the 2010s and are now exporting to eighteen countries. Both are worth your time, for completely different reasons, and knowing which one you want saves you from ordering the wrong thing in the wrong place.

Photo: Honza Groh (Jagro), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Soproni, one of the Big Three lagers covered below, photographed in Miskolc.

A Brief History of Hungarian Brewing (The Non-Boring Version)

The modern Hungarian beer industry took shape in the middle of the 19th century, and the date that matters is 1854, when a Dreher brewery opened in Kőbánya, Budapest’s 10th district. That was not a random address. Kőbánya sits on limestone cellars quarried out of the hill, and cellars meant stable cold temperatures, which is what lagering needs in a century without refrigeration.

The brewery is still there, still brewing, and it kept its own museum: the Söripari Emléktár opened in 1979 for the plant’s 125th anniversary and was rebuilt from 2019 into an interactive exhibition at the top of the road now named after Antal Dreher.

The communist decades consolidated everything under state control, which killed experimentation and cemented the brand names that still dominate. Privatization after 1989 handed those brands to multinationals. It also, eventually, left room underneath them for small independent brewers, and that is where the last fifteen years of the story happen.

💡 Pro Tip

The brewery museum is the cheap way in. It costs 1,000 HUF, it is open six days a week, and you do not need a group of fifteen the way the full brewery tour does. Bring cash: it is the only thing they take.

The Big Three: Hungary’s Mainstream Beer Giants

Walk into any Hungarian supermarket, pub or restaurant and you meet the same three names: Dreher, Borsodi, Soproni. Here is who each one is.

Brand	Brewing since	Home	Owner	What it is
Dreher	1854	Kőbánya, Budapest District X	Asahi Group	Flagship is Dreher Gold, 5.0%, brewed without corn on barley malt, water and two hops. Also Dreher Session IPA (5.0%, 25 IBU), Dreher Citrus (4.0%, 16 IBU), the Dreher 24 line and tank beer
Borsodi	1973	Bőcs, near Miskolc	Molson Coors	The everyman brand, and the one with the firsts: Hungary’s first alcohol-free beer (Borsodi Póló, 1987), first canned beer, first keg, first flavored domestic beer
Soproni	1895	Sopron, on the Austrian border	Heineken Hungária	Brewed on 100% Hungarian barley. Three families: the lagers, the beer specialities, and an alcohol-free and fruit range

Dreher: The Grandfather of Hungarian Beer

Dreher is the name Hungarians reach for when they mean “a proper Hungarian beer,” and 170 years of continuous brewing on the same site is why. What has changed recently is the lineup. The flagship is now Dreher Gold at 5.0%, sold on a stripped-back recipe of barley malt, water and two hop varieties, with the corn taken out. The old Classic and Bak are no longer what the brand leads with.

The other change is that Dreher started competing with the craft breweries on their own ground. Dreher Session IPA is a top-fermented 5.0% beer at 25 IBU built on three hop varieties, and Dreher Citrus is a 4.0% lager cut with lemon and lime at 16 IBU. Neither will convert anyone who drinks Mad Scientist, but they are on every supermarket shelf in the country, which is a different kind of win.

Borsodi: The Working-Class Hero

Borsodi started brewing in 1973 at Bőcs, in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén county, because the existing Hungarian breweries could not keep up with demand. It is now part of Molson Coors and it is consistently one of the highest-volume beers sold in the country, particularly outside Budapest.

The thing worth knowing is that Borsodi has been the first mover on almost every format change in Hungarian beer: the first alcohol-free beer in 1987 (Borsodi Póló), the first canned beer, the first keg, the first flavored domestic beer. It is easy to be snobbish about a brand that markets itself on rugged Hungarian landscapes, and then you notice it has been the one taking the risks.

Soproni: The Western Connection

Beer has been brewed in Sopron since 1895, in a town that spent most of its history looking west into the German-speaking world, and Soproni still trades on that. Now part of Heineken Hungária, it makes a point of brewing on 100% Hungarian barley and splits its range three ways: the lagers, the beer specialities, and an alcohol-free and fruit line that has grown considerably.

The Straight Verdict

These are competent mass-market lagers. They will not win anything, and they are not trying to. They are cold, clean and cheap, and they are the correct thing to drink with traditional Hungarian dishes like gulyás or pörkölt, because a light crisp lager cuts through paprika and lard in a way that a hop-forward beer simply fights.

If you came to Hungary for the beer specifically, keep reading.

What a Mainstream Beer Costs

Same beer, four different rooms. The spread is the whole point.

Where	0.5L draft	In dollars	Notes
Old-school presszó	700-900 HUF	$2.20-2.85	Communist-era interiors, no menu in English
Neighborhood kocsma	800-1,000 HUF	$2.55-3.20	The default local price across Districts VIII, IX and XIII
Deep-local kocsma	around 500 HUF	around $1.60	Exists, needs local intel, comes with sticky tables
Tourist-strip pub	1,200-2,000 HUF	$3.80-6.35	Váci utca and the main ruin-bar drag
Szimpla Kert	1,200 HUF and up	$3.80 and up	Plus a 500 HUF glass deposit

The pattern to internalize: walking three streets away from a landmark halves the price of the identical beer. Our budget pub guide is the long version of that sentence.

Two Brewery Visits You Can Book

Almost every guide tells you to “check whether the brewery runs tours.” Two of them definitely do, and one of them is free.

Visit	Where	Price	Format
Dreher Sörtúra	Kőbánya, Budapest District X	4,000 HUF adult, 3,000 HUF with student or pensioner card	1.5-2 hours. Short film in the museum, the Kolodko mini-statue of Antal Dreher in the yard, the historic brewhouse and the ANTL microbrewery, then two glasses of fresh draft over 30 minutes. Groups of 15-30, advance booking only, Hungarian or English on request, 18+
Dreher Söripari Emléktár	Kőbánya, at the start of Dreher Antal út	1,000 HUF adult, 500 HUF concession, free for several categories	Walk-in brewing museum, open Monday to Thursday 09:00-16:00 and Friday and Saturday 09:00-14:00. Cash only, on site. Guided tours with a tasting can be arranged in advance
Borsodi brewery tour	Bőcs, Rákóczi utca 81, near Miskolc	Free	1.5-2 hours. Company and brewing presentation, visitor centre, plant tour, tasting. Groups of 12-25 on published dates, sign-up on the brewery’s site, 18+

Two things about the Dreher tour that catch people out. It only runs for groups of at least fifteen, so a couple cannot just turn up and buy two tickets, and the dress code is enforced at the gate: long trousers and closed shoes, no skirts, shorts or tights, and the route is not step-free. If you are two people rather than fifteen, the museum is the version of this you can do.

The Hungarian Craft Beer Revolution

Around 2010 a generation of Hungarian brewers who had drunk American and Belgian beer started making it here, badly at first and then very well. The scene is now export-grade, and the four names below are the ones whose beer you will meet.

Horizont Brewing

Horizont is the Hungarian craft brewery with the international record. It took the Grand Champion title at the Dublin Craft Beer Cup in 2017, the first Central European brewery to do it, the Hungarian beer bloggers voted it Best Brewery in 2019, and it now exports to eighteen countries. Its cans and bottles run 690-2,490 HUF ($2.20-7.90) direct from the brewery webshop, which is a useful sanity check on what a craft bar is charging you.

The taproom is at the brewery in Kőbánya, out past the airport road, with ten rotating taps, room for about fifty inside and comfortably more than that on the summer terrace. It is not a walk-in bar with fixed hours: it works on events and bookings, so it is the trip you make deliberately, not the one you fold into an evening. Note the web address, too. The old horizontbrewing.com now redirects to horizontsorok.hu.

🍺 Horizont Brewing Taproom

• Address: Maglódi út 47, District X (Kőbánya)
• Taps: 10, rotating house range
• Space: about 50 inside, 150-plus with the summer terrace
• Access: event and booking based, not a fixed-hours bar
• Webshop cans and bottles: 690-2,490 HUF ($2.20-7.90)

Website

FIRST Craft Beer

Start with the correction, because every other English guide has this wrong. FIRST is not in Dunakeszi anymore. The brewery and its taproom are both on Váci út 83 in District IV, and the food operation, FIRST Craft Beer & BBQ, is a separate address on Dob utca in District VII. If you have read anything sending you out on the HÉV to a suburban brewery restaurant, that trip no longer exists.

What has not changed is the beer: hop-forward American-style ales and lagers, a heavy release schedule, and a brewery that turns up at everything from Debrecen’s Campus festival to KRAFT.

🍺 FIRST Craft Beer

• Brewery and taproom: Váci út 83, District IV
• Craft Beer & BBQ: Dob utca, District VII
• House style: American-style hoppy ales and lagers, frequent new releases
• Note: the Dunakeszi brewery restaurant is no longer the address

Website

Mad Scientist and Its Bars

Mad Scientist has been brewing since 2016 and took “craft” straight into experimental territory: milkshake IPAs, pastry stouts, mead and melomel from Hungarian honey, an entire alpha series that exists to release the divisive stuff. Liquid Cocaine and Smooth Hoperator both started as alphas.

Their own venues are two. Mad Kert is the beer garden behind the Maglódi út 47 brewery, sixteen taps, food truck rotating weekly, and in the 2026 season it opens only for specific events rather than every weekend, so check before you cross the city for it. TETŐ runs Tuesday to Saturday, 16:00 to 23:00, closed Monday and Sunday, with a gig calendar attached.

Madhouse Bistro & Bar in Anker köz is the central place to find their beer alongside natural wines and cocktails, one minute from Deák Ferenc tér, and it keeps late hours: to 01:00 Monday, Tuesday and Sunday, 02:00 Wednesday and Thursday, and 04:00 on Friday and Saturday. It opens at noon every day of the week.

🍺 Madhouse Bistro & Bar

• Address: Anker köz 1-3, District VI, a minute from Deák Ferenc tér
• Hours: Mon, Tue, Sun 12:00-01:00 | Wed, Thu 12:00-02:00 | Fri, Sat 12:00-04:00
• Drinks: craft beer on tap, natural wines, spirits, seasonal cocktails
• Vibe: central, bistro-bar, holds up to 120, works for groups

Website

Fehér Nyúl

Fehér Nyúl (White Rabbit) is the sour, barrel-aged and wild-fermentation end of the Hungarian scene, plus alcohol-free beers and kombucha. Their taproom is not open daily and opens for events, so the reliable way to drink it is at a craft bar. The more interesting angle for a visitor is Brew!Studio, their brewing and tasting sessions run out of Tűzoltó utca 22, the same building as Élesztőház, where you spend an afternoon making the beer rather than reading about it.

What Craft Beer Costs

Craft is a separate market from the lager above, and the spread inside it is wider than most visitors expect.

Format	Price	In dollars
Craft bar, 0.4-0.5L draft	1,200-3,600 HUF	$3.80-11.40
Élesztőház pint	1,800-2,500 HUF	$5.70-7.95
Brewery webshop can or bottle	690-2,490 HUF	$2.20-7.90
Bottle shop can or bottle	800-2,000 HUF	$2.55-6.35

The cheap end of that draft range is a session beer at a neighborhood craft bar. The expensive end is a barrel-aged stout or a limited release, and it is priced like a cocktail because it took a year to make. Our craft beer spots guide prices the individual bars.

Where to Drink: The Best Beer Bars and Pubs in Budapest

District VII and the Kertész utca Cluster

The Jewish Quarter is where the craft scene concentrated, and one street does most of the work. Kertész utca has a burger pub at number 33 and a bottle shop bar at 42-44, two hundred meters apart, and the streets either side fill in the rest.

Élesztőház is the one that set the template. A former glassworks factory on Tűzoltó utca 22, technically District IX rather than VII, thirty taps, and a set of separate rooms under one roof: the beer bar itself, a butcher’s kitchen, a spirit bar, a wine room and a courtyard café. It opens at 15:00 every day and runs late.

🍺 Élesztőház

• Address: Tűzoltó utca 22, District IX
• Taps: 30
• Beer bar hours: Sun, Mon 15:00-01:00 | Tue, Wed 15:00-02:00 | Thu, Fri, Sat 15:00-03:00
• Kitchen: daily 15:00-00:00 | Spirit bar: Tue-Sat 17:00-01:00 | Wine room: Tue-Sat 16:00-00:00
• Café: Mon-Fri 15:00-22:00, Sat-Sun 10:00-22:00
• Prices: 1,800-2,500 HUF ($5.70-7.95) a pint

Website

Kandalló Craft Beer & Burger Pub at Kertész utca 33 is the cold-weather answer: two floors, a summer terrace, sixteen taps weighted toward Hungarian small breweries, and burgers good enough that people come for those and stay for the beer.

Csakajósör (“Only Good Beer”) is two hundred meters up the same street at Kertész utca 42-44, and it is both a bottle shop and a bar, which makes it the most efficient stop on the street: drink one, take four home. Open 14:00-22:00 Monday to Wednesday, 14:00-23:00 Thursday to Saturday, closed Sunday. It also doubles as a pickup point for Mad Scientist’s webshop orders, which tells you something about how this scene is wired.

Beyond the Craft Scene: Traditional Pubs

Not every beer needs to be a barrel-aged anything. Sometimes you want a kocsma: cheap lager, fluorescent light, and a conversation you cannot follow.

Head to Districts VIII, IX and XIII and the prices drop to the 800-1,000 HUF band without any of the searching that the sub-500 places require. These rooms are not curated for visitors, which is the entire appeal.

Kiadó Kocsma on Jókai tér, a couple of minutes off Andrássy út, is the version of this closest to the center: a small neighborhood bar with a gallery level, simple food, and no interest in impressing anyone.

🍺 Kiadó Kocsma

• Address: Jókai tér 3, District VI
• What it is: neighborhood kocsma on a quiet square off Andrássy út
• Food: short menu of simple plates
• Vibe: small, unfussy, gallery seating, locals at the bar

Ruin Bars: Where Tourists and Locals Collide

The ruin bars belong in a beer guide even though they are about the room rather than the glass. Szimpla Kert, the original, stocks both mainstream and craft, and the drink prices have climbed to match the queue outside.

The strategy is simple: order draft Hungarian lager, because that is where the value is, and skip the bottled craft, which is marked up hard. If you are there for the beer rather than the courtyard, the Kertész utca bars are four minutes away and pouring better.

The Beer Spa Experience

Hungary combined its two favorite things, and the result is a room of wooden tubs filled with beer-infused thermal water and a personal tap you can drink from while you sit in it. There are two locations, inside the Széchenyi complex in City Park and at Lukács on the Buda side, and the session is 45 minutes.

Ticket	Weekday	Weekend
Beer Spa only, either location	22,000 HUF	26,400 HUF
Beer Spa plus Széchenyi ticket and private changing room	38,500 HUF	42,900 HUF
Beer Spa plus Lukács ticket and private changing room	30,000 HUF	34,400 HUF

Is it gimmicky? Completely. Is it also good fun and unmistakably Hungarian? Also yes. The hops-and-malt skin benefits are marketing; the tub and the tap are real. We took it apart in detail, including what the photos do not show, in the Beer Spa review.

Hungarian Beer Etiquette: The Rules You Need to Know

The Clinking Glasses Thing

You will have read that Hungarians do not clink beer glasses, because Austrian officers supposedly toasted while thirteen Hungarian generals were executed in 1849. It is a good story and it is the one thing every guidebook about Hungary contains.

In practice nobody in a Budapest bar is going to correct you. If it matters at your table, someone will lift their glass without touching yours, and you follow. Then say “Egészségedre!” (eh-GAY-shay-ged-reh), which means “to your health” and is the part that actually gets used.

Ordering Like a Local

• “Egy korsó sört kérek” (edge KOR-sho shurt KAY-rek) = “One half-liter of beer, please”
• “Világos” (VEE-lah-gosh) = light or blonde beer, which covers most lagers
• “Barna” (BAR-na) = brown or dark beer
• “Csapolt” (CHAH-polt) = draft, on tap
• “Üveges” (OO-veh-gesh) = bottled

Tipping

Not mandatory, and appreciated. Rounding up covers it at a kocsma. At a craft bar with table service, 10 to 15% is normal.

The Fröccs Alternative

In summer, or when you want something lighter, order fröccs, the Hungarian wine spritzer, which comes in a whole taxonomy of wine-to-soda ratios and has its own vocabulary. It is not beer, it is deeply Hungarian, and it is usually cheaper.

Beer Events and Festivals

Three festivals answer to some version of “Budapest beer festival,” they happen in two different seasons, and the search results conflate them constantly. Here is the actual calendar.

Festival	Dates	Where	Entry
Belvárosi Sörfesztivál	1-6 September 2026	Szabadság tér, District V	Free. Festival glass 4,999 HUF (about $16)
KRAFT Sörfesztivál	10-13 September 2026	Dürer Kert	Free. Glass 2,990 HUF, tokens 400 HUF each
Budapest Beer Week	Tasting sessions 21-22 May 2027, Encore Day 23 May	Dürer Kert plus venues citywide	Ticketed, from 95 euros early bird for one session

The nine days between the two September festivals are the best beer window of the Hungarian year, and they are completely different events. Belvárosi is a public square with the whole city walking through it. KRAFT is a music venue courtyard with a deeper tap list and concerts. We took the disambiguation apart properly in the Budapest beer festival guide.

KRAFT 2026, in detail

KRAFT is the one that rewards planning, because the token system means the arithmetic is done before you arrive. Entry and the concerts cost nothing. You buy a branded glass and tokens, and tokens are what you pay for beer with. Buying a package online is cheaper than buying tokens at the point on the day, and there is no token refund in 2026, so buy for the session you will drink.

Day	Open
Thursday 10 September	16:00-24:00
Friday 11 September	15:00-01:00
Saturday 12 September	12:00-01:00
Sunday 13 September	12:00-23:00

Package (online)	Contents	Price
Small	15 tokens plus glass	8,000 HUF (about $25)
Medium	30 tokens plus glass	13,500 HUF (about $43)
Large	50 tokens plus glass	21,000 HUF (about $67)
XXL	80 tokens plus glass	32,000 HUF (about $102)

Bringing a KRAFT or Budapest Beer Week glass from a previous year works, and saves you the 2,990 HUF.

Budapest Beer Week, which is a May event

Beer Week is the ticketed one and it is not a September festival, whatever the search results imply. The 2027 edition runs its two Tasting Sessions on 21 and 22 May, six hours each from 14:00, with unlimited tasting inside the ticket and afterparties attached, then a free Encore Day at Dürer Kert on Sunday 23 May. Tickets are sold in euros: early bird from 95 euros for a single session, 178 euros for both, and an Imperial tier at 251 euros. Sessions are capped at 1,500 people, and the early bird prices are the reason to decide in autumn rather than in May.

🕐 Best Times for Beer in Budapest

Season	What’s on	Verdict
Spring (May)	Budapest Beer Week, tap takeovers, limited releases	The connoisseur’s window, and it needs a ticket
Summer (June-August)	Terraces, beer gardens, rooftops at capacity	Easiest drinking, worst crowds, and it can be brutally hot
September	Belvárosi Sörfesztivál then KRAFT, nine days apart	The best month of the year, and both are free to enter
Winter	Cellar pubs, dark beers, indoor rooms	Kandalló weather. Quiet, cheap, no queues
Avoid	Major public holidays, and 20 August in the center	Bars close on holidays, and the August 20 crowds make the center unusable

Buying Beer to Take Home

Beerselection at József körút 22-24 in District VIII is the specialist bottle shop, with its own tap list alongside the shelves, and it is the one place where you can assemble a mixed case of Hungarian craft without thinking about it.

Csakajósör at Kertész utca 42-44 is the District VII option and doubles as a bar, so you can taste before you commit.

Straight from the brewery is the third route and often the cheapest: Horizont’s webshop runs 690-2,490 HUF a can or bottle, Mad Scientist and FIRST both sell direct, and Mad Scientist offers personal pickup at the Kőbánya brewery on weekdays as well as at Csakajósör.

💡 Pro Tip

Hungarian craft cans travel better than bottles and the artwork is half the reason to buy them. Mad Scientist’s label art and Horizont’s are the two worth carrying home in a suitcase.

Pairing Beer with Hungarian Food

With gulyás: a Vienna-style lager or an amber ale. Avoid hop-forward beer, which fights the paprika instead of cutting it.

With pörkölt and paprikás: same logic, malty lagers. Going craft, look for a märzen or a Czech-style pilsner.

With lángos: something crisp and carbonated to handle the grease. Pilsner or a wheat beer.

With töltött káposzta: the sour-savory-meaty combination wants a darker lager or a brown ale.

With Dobos torte or somlói galuska: a sweeter stout or a Belgian-style dubbel, if you are going to do this at all.

Beer and the Budapest Thermal Bath Experience

The connection between beer and thermal baths goes well past the Beer Spa gimmick. A bath session followed by a drink is a normal Budapest afternoon, and several bathhouses have bars on site. At Széchenyi you can stand in the outdoor pool with a beer in your hand, which is either the best or the worst thing about it depending on who you ask.

One warning that is not a formality: heat amplifies alcohol considerably, and the person who needs helping out of a 38-degree pool is always the one who did not believe that.

A Self-Guided Beer Tour of Budapest

One evening, walkable, central. Horizont’s taproom is out in Kőbánya and event-based, so it is a separate trip rather than a stop on this one.

Late afternoon, 16:00-18:00. Start at Élesztőház in District IX, metro to Ferenc körút. It opens at 15:00, it has a kitchen, and thirty taps is enough to work out what you like before you commit to a night of it.

Early evening, 18:00-20:00. Walk to Madhouse in Anker köz near Deák tér for the experimental end: the pastry stouts, the sours, the things that should not work.

Night, 20:00 onward. Into District VII. Kandalló at Kertész utca 33, then Csakajósör at 42-44 for the bottle list, and finish at Szimpla Kert if the queue looks survivable.

Distance: about 4-5km of walking, which is manageable if you pace both the beer and the walking.

📍 District VII Beer Crawl Essentials

• Spine of it: Kertész utca, between Király utca and Wesselényi utca
• Getting there: metro M2 to Blaha Lujza tér or Astoria, tram 4 or 6 to Király utca
• Best nights: Thursday to Saturday. Some places are quiet or shut Monday to Wednesday
• Budget per person: 6,000-12,000 HUF ($19-38) for a full evening
• Safety: a very safe area. Normal city awareness applies

Pro tip: download offline maps. Phone signal drops in the basements and courtyards where half of these bars live.

The Future of Hungarian Beer

The craft scene has stopped being a novelty and started being an industry, and the tell is that the big three are now brewing session IPAs and citrus lagers of their own. Horizont exporting to eighteen countries and Mad Scientist collaborating internationally is one direction. Dreher putting a 25 IBU session IPA on supermarket shelves is the other, and both are healthier for a drinker than either would be alone.

The interesting frontier is Hungarian ingredients: local hops, heritage grains, Hungarian fruit in the sours, Hungarian honey in Mad Scientist’s mead program. That is the thing that could make Hungarian craft beer taste like somewhere rather than like everywhere.

Final Thoughts: Why Hungarian Beer Matters

Hungarian beer does not have the reputation of Czech pilsner or Belgian abbey ale, and that is part of the charm. Nobody arrives in Budapest because an influencer said the beer was the next big thing. You come for the thermal baths, the architecture and the food, and then you find out the beer scene is quietly excellent and nobody was making a fuss about it.

The juxtaposition is what makes it good: an experimental sour in a crumbling courtyard, a 900 HUF Dreher with men who have been drinking in the same kocsma for forty years, a Kőbánya brewery that has been running since 1854 sitting twenty minutes from a taproom that opened last decade and exports to eighteen countries.

Egészségedre! 🍺

Prices, hours and addresses checked at each operator on 11 August 2026: dreher.hu and dreherzrt.hu, borsodisorgyar.hu, soproni.hu, horizontsorok.hu, shop.firstcraftbeer.com, madscientist.hu, madhousebudapest.hu, elesztohaz.hu, kandallopub.hu, csakajosor.hu, beerselection.hu, thermalbeerspa.com and bpbw.hu. Pub and craft-bar price bands come from our own Budapest price sweeps in July and August 2026. Beer prices move with the excise calendar and the season, so treat the bands as guidance rather than a quote.

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