VertsHuset Skarven AS

Nice location, would be a great patio spot in the summer, but enjoyed the other bars around more. If you’re short on time, this is skipable. Decent selection of beer, but staff seem a bit confused, lacking beer knowledge, and lazy by not updating the chalkboard menu (a number of beers had finished, but were still on the menu and there was mixed messaging about what had replaced it). Reminds me of Tap & Barrel in Vancouver.

28 taps. Mostly Mack macro but ab.10 micros from Mack, Graff, Svalbard, Kinn and others. Rotating. 320 bottles - and an informative beer menu. You can often find interesting bottles. The pub only serves light (but good) dishes. If you go upstairs you will find a first class fish-restaurant and a steakhouse. On the ground floor: On ok bar. On a sunny day it´s very popular to enjoy the sun outside. All in all: A top place.

Ligger fint till nere vid kajen mitt i centrum. Trevlig atmosfär. Tromsös klart bästa sortiment av Belgiska öl.

Close to the waterfront, this is an ideal location for sunny days, when the locals and tourist can sit outside and combine sun bathing with a good beer, sheltering off the north/east wind. Beer selection is Mack on tap, some specials over at the right side of the long bar. They also have a big cooler behind the bar with a good and wide selection of bottled beers. Well wort a visit if the weather is nice,

Good location in the city and nice outside seating. Fair selection on tap, but nothing too special. Good bottle list. Decent place, but not on top of my list to revisit next time I’m in the area. Well worth dropping by, but at least I didn’t find too much interesting here.

Quite liked the place. Good selection of beer and they had a beer menu. As I was there with a group of people we didn’t stay long, so I only had one beer. This was expensive, but it seems to me that even for Norwegian standards, beer prices in Tromsø are high. (We went to the restaurant upstairs which was nice, but with a typical small selection of beers)

Location; at quay nearby mall Nerstranda. Between Hotel Edge and that mall. White 100yr old building. Selection; many Norwegian microbrews and others from Norway, plus internationals as Leffe, Westvleteren and Paulaner. Impressive beer cupboard, many local bottles there. Some are now on beer-menu. Adult visitors mostly. Restaurant upstairs offers delicious fish and meat dishes. Skarven is worth visiting.

Visited the place with Rune and had the fortune to find a number of beers from To Tårn that appeared to be relatively new. The room was pretty larged dominated by a long bar with 21 taps and a good deal of bottled beers as well. A large number of small tables spread all over the room. Subdued almost unnoticeable musich, soft roock. Young male friendly bartender with little knowledge behind the bar but we had a chat with another friendly servant who appeared to know everything that was needed to know. Ate cabeljau with potatoes and tomates. Qute watery. Should have gone to the restautrant at 1st floor. Cosy athmosphere though.

A nice and spacious pub with a popular outdoor seating area. Only Mack on tap but a good bottled selection. But, why not have a beer menu? I had to lean over the bar counter in order to see if the fridge had a hidden beer gem. I didn’t find any rare one, but picked one from De Molen. (Visited July 10th 2014) and revisited July 19th 2017 with Finn

Skarven Kro is the café / pub on the ground floor below Arctandria Seafood Restaurant at Vertshuset Skarven. It’s light and very open, with windows facing the harbor as well as the square from which you enter. The place felt like a mixture of a nice local café and a tourist place and you meet both kinds here. The bottled beer selection really impressed me, I counted more than 70(!) types from all over the world - De Molen, Emelisse, Founders, Mikkeller, Amager, Ægir, Nøgne Ø and a dozen types from HaandBryggeriet. On tap they only had four Mack beers, none that really interested me, so I stuck to the bottled beers on my two visits. The food was a bit up and down, the fish caserolle was really tasty while the bacalao on day two was among the least tastefull I’ve ever had (and I’ve tasted many on various trips to Portugal). Finally, the two young male bartenders I talked to showed a total lack of interest in their good selection of bottled beers, which was very disappointing and will probably cause many problems for future visitors asking about beer. Such a shame. Visits: 28 February and March 1, 2013.