Mikkeller Bar Taipei

Mikkeller began in Copenhagen in 2006 as a gypsy-brewing project between a schoolteacher and a homebrewer. Here its restless range of sours, barrel-aged stouts, low-ABV table beers and collaborations runs alongside Taiwanese guests, and it's a reliable place to find the country's newer nanobreweries. The tea taps nod to the district's merchant history.

It's on Nanjing West Road, about eight minutes' walk from Beimen MRT. If the board is unfamiliar, start with a flight (around NT$680); it's a natural first stop for visitors calibrating their palate against Taiwanese brewing.