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A beer tasting experience puts you inside a working brewery with a guide who knows what's in the glass. You taste fresh pours, see where they're made and learn how each one is brewed. Choose a tasting paddle and pizza for two, a tour with lunch, or a full day on the bus with friends and nobody has to drive.
Brisbane's XXXX Brewery has a packaging museum you can walk through before the tasting. In Canberra, the tours stop at Bentspoke, Zierholz and Capital Brewery Co. Out in the Hunter Valley, a bus takes you through three breweries, starting at the valley's oldest. Each beer tasting experience here is built around a real brewery, so the main decision is which one you'd like to stand in.
The Hunter Valley Craft Beer Tour with Lunch and Tastings is a full day through three award-winning breweries, with pick-up in Sydney, Newcastle or the valley. In the city, the Sydney Winery and Brewery Tour with Tastings leaves from the Keg and Brew Hotel in Surry Hills and adds a distillery and Australia's first urban winery. Prefer to cook? The Beer Tasting and BBQ Smoking Cooking Class ends in a four-course meal you made yourself.
The XXXX Brewery Tour with Beer Tastings and Burger goes through the Milton brewery, the packaging museum and ends with a burger at the Alehouse. The Dash of Brisbane Brewery Tour is a half-day across three breweries that may include Milton Common, Future Magic Brewing Co and Green Beacon. Up the coast, the Coastal Hop Brewery Tour with Lunch gives you a tasting paddle at each of three breweries.
The Canberra Brewery Tour picks up from Braddon at 2pm and visits three of Bentspoke Brewing Co, Zierholz Premium Brewery and Capital Brewery Co, with transfers included. For a private group, the Full Day Canberra Brewery Tour with Lunch starts at 11am and stops for lunch at the Durham Castle or the Old Canberra Inn.
The Melbourne Brewery Tour and Beer Tasting covers the historic Abbotsford site on the Yarra, including the brewing, bottling and packaging plants, and finishes with a tasting paddle. Settling in for longer? The Ultimate Melbourne Brewery Experience adds a burger or a parma and two hours of beer after the tour.
Adelaide Hills tastings happen in brewery courtyards, and they're slow on purpose. The Lazy Long Lunch with Pizza and Craft Beer starts with a craft ale on arrival, then wood-oven pizza and chips keep coming. The Microbrewery Pint and Pizza gives two people a pint and a deep dish pizza each, made with 48-hour dough.
Alice Springs Brewing Co runs a brewery tour with tasting and pizzas for two: a guided look at the brewing facilities, a paddle of four 100ml pours, then two 9-inch pizzas. The tasting paddle and pizza option skips the tour and goes straight to reserved seats.
The beer lover in your life probably owns the novelty glasses already. A brewery tour hands them a day with a guide, a few pours and a story to retell at the pub. A paddle and pizza for two suits a date; a full day on the bus with lunch suits a group of mates.
Not sure which city or brewery? A RedBalloon gift voucher lets them pick the tour, the place and the date themselves.
A beer tasting experience is a session where you sample several beers while someone explains what you're drinking. The range here includes guided brewery tours finishing with a paddle, such as the Abbotsford brewery tour, full-day bus tours across several breweries, and long lunches with beer and pizza in a brewery courtyard.
Tastings run in Brisbane, Sydney, the Hunter Valley, Canberra, Melbourne, the Gold Coast, the Sunshine Coast, the Adelaide Hills and Alice Springs. In Brisbane, the XXXX brewery tour with a burger is a popular option, and the BBQ smoking class with a beer tasting is a strong choice in Sydney.
You need to be 18 or over for the brewery tours and tastings. The Alice Springs, Hunter Valley, Melbourne, Sunshine Coast and Adelaide Hills products all state 18 and over for drinking, and photo ID may be requested on the day. The Sydney BBQ smoking class also lets under-18s attend with a parent or adult, so check the product page for your group.
You don't. The guides on tours like the Best of Brisbane Brewery Tour are set up for people who love their beer and for people just starting out, with tasting notes to follow along. Nobody expects you to name hops on arrival; you taste, ask questions and decide what you like.
It depends on the format. The Canberra tours include transfers from Braddon, the Hunter Valley tour adds lunch and an air-conditioned bus, and the Alice Springs tour includes a four-beer paddle and two pizzas. The Melbourne tour ends with a tasting paddle. Each product page lists exactly what's covered, including any meal.
Yes. Group days work because the driving is handled. The full-day private Canberra tour is a private tour for your group, and the Hunter Valley and Brisbane tours use a bus or van with return transfers, so everyone can taste properly and get home.
Beer tastings focus on brewing, with a visit to the brewery floor and a paddle of several styles. Winery and distillery tours follow the same format with a different drink. The Sydney Winery and Brewery Tour mixes all three. For wine alone, see wine tasting and winery tours.
If the group splits between beer and spirits, the whiskey and gin tasting and distillery tours are worth a look. Winery tours cover the cellar-door side, while home brewing courses teach you to make your own. For a wider spread of eating and drinking days out, browse food tasting and tours.