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This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigateMikkeller San Francisco, a popular beer bar and affiliate of the Copenhagen-founded craft brewery Mikkeller, will imminently close, an email obtained by SFGATE confirms. Staff were notified of the closure via email Wednesday.The message attributed the decision to "the financial strain of the pandemic" and the uncertainty around how a bar might feasibly operate in the coming months.A listing for the bar and restaurant space at 34 Mason St. also appeared online recently, advertising the business as a "a beer lovers paradise, with the volume and profits to prove it." The page, offering it for $390,000, also notes its Type 42 license — used for 21-and-up beer and wine bars with retail capabilities — as an attractive component of the sale."The location is loved by SF locals, tourists and tech workers alike," the listing continues. "It also benefits from convention goers and the customers of the many neighboring hotels ... Additionally the famous Union Square is a short couple blocks away."However, reached by email Thursday, a spokesperson for Mikkeller's Copenhagen headquarters — which does not own the bar, but licensed its name —told SFGATE that "it is not correct that it is closed permanently," and rather that "it is closed now due to the situation in the world."Chuck Stilphen, who co-owns the bar, told SFGATE Friday that "Mikkeller HQ may choose to reopen Mikkeller SF if they want.""It's completely up to them," he added. "I personally am getting out of the business."Mikkeller, a Copenhagen-based brewing company founded by&nbsp;Mikkel Borg Bjergsø in the mid-2000s, quickly gained popularity in Europe thereafter. Mikkeller opened its first bar in Copenhagen in 2010, and then expanded to other countries, including the United States. In 2013, Mikkeller opened a San Francisco bar location as a joint project between Bjergsø and Stilphen (also of the Trappist in Oakland). Three years later, Mikkeller opened a brewhouse in San Diego, and in 2017, Stilphen and Bjergsø teamed up again to open a Los Angeles taproom.A , and the .The San Francisco location, however, has always seemed bustling and busy, building itself a reputation as a high-end craft beer destination in downtown San Francisco. It offered not just Mikkeller's popular hoppy styles and experimental ales, but a number of curated locally produced beers, internationally acclaimed mixed-fermentation ales and robust imperial dark ale styles.The care taken by bar staff to curate menus and maintain beer quality elevated its reputation in the beer community, making it a destination for post-work locals and beer-seeking tourists.SFGATE is awaiting further comment from Mikkeller in Copenhagen.Alyssa Pereira is an SFGate digital editor. Email: | Twitter:

This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigateMikkeller San Francisco, a popular beer bar and affiliate of the Copenhagen-founded craft brewery Mikkeller, will imminently close, an email obtained by SFGATE confirms. Staff were notified of the closure via email Wednesday.The message attributed the decision to "the financial strain of the pandemic" and the uncertainty around how a bar might feasibly operate in the coming months.A listing for the bar and restaurant space at 34 Mason St. also appeared online recently, advertising the business as a "a beer lovers paradise, with...

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