Top 10 Breweries in Argentina
Argentina arrived at craft beer by an unusual route: a country where wine culture was deeply entrenched and macro lager (Quilmes, now part of AB InBev) defined everyday drinking, but where German, Swiss and Italian immigration had planted a latent brewing tradition. The modern craft movement started in Patagonia — El Bolsón's first brewery opened in the mid-1980s and Bariloche followed by the end of the decade — before Mar del Plata and Buenos Aires turned it into a national phenomenon from the late 1990s onward.
1. Antares, Mar del Plata
Antares is the brewery that took Argentine craft beer mainstream. Pablo Rodríguez, Leo Ferrari and Mariana Rodríguez started it as a garage hobby in Mar del Plata in 1998, then opened a brewpub with an attached brewery on Calle Córdoba. The range — Honey Beer, Kölsch, Imperial Stout and a rotating cast of seasonals — spent the early years essentially educating the market about what beer beyond Quilmes could taste like. Antares grew into a franchise chain and, after a 2026 relaunch, counts more than 40 locations, although Argentina's consumer slump has also forced it to close several emblematic bars, including ones in La Plata and Mar del Plata. Without Antares, the movement would have lacked a commercial reference point for most of the 2000s.
2. Cervecería Patagonia, Bariloche
Be clear about what Patagonia is: a brand of Cervecería y Maltería Quilmes, and therefore part of AB InBev, sold as a premium "Patagonian" label rather than an independent craft beer. Its showpiece is the Refugio brewery and tap room on the Circuito Chico outside Bariloche, with views over Lake Moreno and the Andes, which is a genuinely spectacular place to drink. The Amber Lager and Bohemian Pilsener draw on the German and Central European heritage of the southern Andes; Küné and a Weisse round out the range. Whether Patagonia counts as "craft" is a separate question from whether it makes good beer — the Amber Lager in particular is well made.
3. Otro Mundo, San Carlos de Bolívar
Otro Mundo was founded in 2005 by a group led by Pablo Fazio and master brewer Marcelo Cerdán, and it brews in the old plant of the San Carlos brewery in the Buenos Aires province town of San Carlos de Bolívar — a site that dates back to 1884. Its golden, red and dark ales became a reference point for many later Argentine breweries, and the company has since exported its beer and set up a joint venture to brew in Mexico. Its longevity in a regional town proves that craft beer can sustain itself outside the big cities.
4. Strange Brewing, Buenos Aires
Strange Brewing is a Norwegian-Argentine microbrewery that helped lead the Buenos Aires craft wave. Its original taproom is on Delgado in Chacarita, with a second spot on Arenal, and its beers turn up on tap across the city's craft bars. The focus is on hop-forward and experimental styles that reflect contemporary American and Scandinavian craft — the kind of beer that would have been unsellable in Buenos Aires a decade or two ago.
5. Juguetes Perdidos, Caseros (Greater Buenos Aires)
Juguetes Perdidos (Lost Toys) was founded in 2015 in Caseros, just outside the capital, by Ricardo Aftyka, Sergio Picciani and Rodrigo Loran, and it specialises in "extreme" beers: barrel-aged, sour and heavily hopped. It is one of the few Argentine breweries with World Beer Cup medals — gold for Ábrete Sésamo, aged 24 months in white-wine barrels, and later bronze for Sour Power. The taproom is on Bartolomé Mitre in Villa Lynch, and cans and bottles can be ordered online.
6. Cossab, Buenos Aires
Cossab is a neighbourhood brewpub in Boedo, on the corner of Carlos Calvo, brewing half a dozen of its own beers in relaxed, bohemian surroundings. The IPA is the usual pick, and the house pizza nights keep the place full midweek. It is the kind of local brewpub that shows how deep the Buenos Aires scene now goes beyond the famous names.
7. Berlina, Bariloche
Berlina is the Ferrari brothers' brewery — Guido and brewmaster Bruno — and one of the most respected names in Bariloche, the self-styled capital of Argentine craft beer. There are two sites: the original brewhouse on Avenida Bustillo and a newer brewery in the historic village of Colonia Suiza, where the tap room pours around 18 Berlina beers. The Stout, Munich and India styles have the strongest reputations, and the brewery has a long record of medals at South American competitions.
8. Buller Brewing Company, Buenos Aires
Buller opened in 1999 facing Recoleta Cemetery and is generally described as Buenos Aires' first brewpub. The founders took their cue from the American brewpub model, and the fixed range — Hefeweizen, Honey Beer, IPA, Stout, Pilsen, Session IPA and more — comes with American-style pub food and a couple of rotating "Off Road" specials. The Recoleta location gives it a steady tourist audience alongside a loyal local following.
9. Cheverry, Mar del Plata
Cheverry is a family brewery run by four brothers in Mar del Plata, one of Argentina's busiest craft-beer cities. It has been named the best craft brewery in Argentina and finished as the second-best brewery in South America at the South American Beer Cup, and it has expanded from its original bars to half a dozen locations around the city. If Antares represents Mar del Plata's first wave, Cheverry is the clearest sign of how far the city's brewing has come since.
10. Blest, Bariloche
Blest bills itself as Bariloche's first craft beer and the country's first brewpub, with a brand history going back to 1989. For decades its roadside brewpub on Avenida Bustillo was a fixture of the Bariloche beer trail; that site has since closed, and the brand — under new partners who built a larger brewery — moved its taproom closer to the town centre. Check its current address before you go, but Blest remains one of the names that explains how Bariloche became Argentina's beer capital.
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