I am an independent or "artesenal" beer fanatic that is always less than excited with the beer I…read morecan find at the "super" when I visit Mexico. (My husband is from there, so I am going at least once a year.) I know it's not for lack of independent brewers in the country but rather the monopoly the two big cartels: Grupo Modelo (Corona, Modelo, Pacifico, andVictoria), which is owned by Ambev, and Cuauhtémoc Moctezuma (Indio, Dos Xquis, Tecate, and Sol), which is owned by Heineken. (You can now find Heineken just about anywhere.)
Hence, I stumbled upon the Museo de la Cerveza. This visit in June was my second visit. I went last year as well. They do have quite a selection of Mexican independents, as well as, international. However, I found the selections from the US to be less than independent (I believe Sam Adams was the choice). The beer from Mexico is the least expensive, and what I am after anyway, at 55-70 pesos a beer. International beer is more like 160 pesos. If you are after artsenal beer and in the Centro Historico, this is a go to for sure.
HOWEVER, on this visit my husband accidentally broke his glass when he got up to look after our daughter and we bought another two beers. When the bill came the owner prefaced with "Lo siento, but I have to charge you for the glass because I buy them." Aside from the fact that when one normally, accidentally breaks a glass in a pub you aren't charged, and my husband even remembered being brought a new beer once- we were charged 100 PESOS. This was more than the cost of the beer we were drinking. I mean I guess the philosophy in a museum is "you break it you buy it," and I might have been less aghast if the fee was say, 50 pesos, which seems reasonable. He just kept repeating "I buy the glasses" when my husband brought up that this was our third visit to the establishment.
So the lesson is this is a nice place to drink independent Mexican and international beer, but make sure not to have an accident that causes you to break a glass. I personally won't be going back, because I was so annoyed by this.
ps- accepts credit cards with a 3% fee added on