The flagship bar of an all-Chinese craft brewer, NBeer is a Beijing original pouring sours, stouts and every style in between. If you only try one (good luck with that), make it the award-winning Beijing Gose Modern, a sour wheat beer brewed with coriander, salt and star anise. Bar nibbles include burgers, spicy Sichuan sausage and lamb-skewer pizza.
NBeer is on the ground floor of a building known as Xintiandi, towards the western end of Huguosi Dajie. Visit before 7pm for 30% discounts on all draught beers. On Sundays you can watch the brewers at work and learn a bit about the process (Chinese only).
Take a seat on the patio out the back in summer for a peek at Jingang Hall (金刚殿, Jīngāng Diàn), originally built in 1284 and the only surviving feature of Huguo Temple, which this hutong is named after.