BREWERY TOURS · AROUND THE WORLD
Follow the taps, not the guidebook.
Taproom crawls in Denver, IPA flights in San Diego, lager cellars in Vienna, brewery rows in Vancouver. Real reviews of the brewery tours and beer tastings worth booking, in the cities worth drinking your way through.
Worth a trip for the beer alone
Three cities you drink your way through.
Some places you visit for the museums. Denver, San Diego and Vancouver you visit for the breweries: the taproom crawl, the IPA flight, the brewer leaning over the bar to talk you through the fresh tank. These are the cities beer travellers come home raving about.
Colorado, USA
Denver
Few cities pack as many taprooms into walking distance as Denver. A guided crawl through Lower Downtown and the River North art district hops from one brewery to the next, a flight at each, the brewers leaning over the bar to tell you what just came off the tanks. This is the city that turned American craft beer into a weekend, and a local guide knows exactly which doors to push.
See all 2 Denver brewery tours →California, USA
San Diego
San Diego more or less invented the West Coast IPA, and the breweries that did it are still pouring. A tour rides you between the tasting rooms of Miramar and North Park, from the household names to the tiny outfits hidden in business parks, pouring everything from a piney double IPA to a barrel-aged stout. The transport is sorted, so the flights never have to stop early.
- 1 Shared 6 Hours Tijuana Taco and Craft Beer Tour
- 2 Private San Diego Beer Tasting Tour
- 3 Baja Craft Beer Tasting
British Columbia, Canada
Vancouver
East Vancouver wears its breweries like a neighbourhood badge, a dozen tasting rooms within a few blocks of each other. A guide walks you door to door through the brewery district, ordering the small-batch pours the menu does not always advertise and talking you through what BC hops actually taste like. A behind-the-scenes tour gets you onto the brew deck before the pints start.
- 1 Vancouver Behind-the-Scenes Brewery Tour
- 2 Street Art and Craft Beer 2 in 1 Walking Tour Vancouver
- 3 Vancouver: Street Art & Craft Beer Walking Tour with Tasting
If you only book one
The brewery tour more travellers rave about than any other.
Out of every brewery tour and beer tasting on the site, this is the one drinkers come home telling everyone they know to book.
The crowd-pleasers
The Most Popular Brewery Tours Right Now
Denver taproom crawls, San Diego IPA flights, Sydney microbrewery hops, Vienna lager cellars. The bookings beer travellers are happiest they made.
Start with a city
The best brewery tours, city by city.
Vancouver for the brewery district, Denver for the LoDo crawl, San Diego for the IPAs. Pick the city you are headed to and we will show you the brewery tours worth booking there.
Where to go thirsty
Three corners of the world worth a pint.
Not sure where to start? Pick the kind of beer you are in the mood for. Each of these is a region the site covers deeply, and a very different kind of brewery day waiting at the end of it.
Vancouver
A whole neighbourhood of taprooms.
East Vancouver packs a dozen breweries into a few blocks, and the best way to drink it is on foot. A guide walks you tasting room to tasting room, ordering the small-batch pours that never make the printed menu and talking you through what BC hops actually taste like. The behind-the-scenes tours even get you onto the brew deck before the pints start.
See the best Vancouver brewery tours →San Diego
The city that bottled the West Coast IPA.
San Diego turned hops into a way of life, and the breweries that did it are still pouring. A tour rides you between the tasting rooms of Miramar and North Park, from the household names to the tiny outfits tucked into business parks, working through a piney double IPA, a crisp pilsner and a barrel-aged stout. The driving is handled, so the flights never have to stop early.
See the best San Diego brewery tours →Sydney
The inner west pours its own.
Sydney’s beer scene lives in the warehouses of Marrickville and the Inner West, where small breweries turn out pacific-hopped pale ales, hazy IPAs and the odd kettle sour. A brewery tour links them on foot or by van, a tasting paddle at each, the brewers happy to talk through the latest batch before you move to the next roller door down the street.
See the best Sydney brewery tours →Vienna, old world
Down into the lager cellars.
Long before the craft boom, central Europe was perfecting the lager, and Vienna still drinks like it. A tour takes you through the historic beer halls and cool cellars where a Vienna lager and a Maerzen are poured the traditional way, a guide explaining how this corner of the continent shaped the way the world drinks beer.
- 1 Vienna: Guided tour of the Ottakringer brewery
- 2 Vienna: Guided Regional Beer Tasting Experience
- 3 Beer Lovers’ Day Trip: Vienna to Bratislava
By the glass
How all-in do you want your beer day?
One good lager cellar in Vienna. A walk down Vancouver’s brewery row. The full LoDo crawl in Denver, pint after pint. Pick the city that sounds like your kind of afternoon on the beer.
Ease in
Vienna, one good cellar.A relaxed couple of hours in a historic Vienna beer hall and a lager cellar, learning how the city drinks its way through a Maerzen and a Vienna lager. A guide, a few pours, no rush to the next stop.
Do the district
Vancouver, brewery row.A guided walk through East Vancouver’s tasting rooms, three or four breweries in an afternoon. Flights at each, the brewer’s story between them, and a local who knows which fresh tank just dropped.
Full crawl
Denver, the whole LoDo crawl.The big one: a Lower Downtown crawl through the taprooms that made Denver a craft-beer city, pint after pint, with the transport and the pacing handled so all you do is drink and talk beer.
Denver
The craft-beer capital of the Rockies.
No American city wears its breweries like Denver does. Lower Downtown and the River North art district pack taprooms three to a block, from the big names that put Colorado on the beer map to the tiny experimental outfits down the alley. A guided crawl handles the walking and the pacing and pours you a flight at each stop, so all you do is drink your way through the city that made craft beer a weekend plan.
See all 2 Denver brewery tours →By city
Pick a city to drink your way through.
Vancouver for the brewery district. Denver for the LoDo crawl. San Diego for the IPAs. Vienna for the lager cellars. Sydney for the inner-west microbreweries. Wellington for New Zealand craft.
More cities
More cities worth a thirsty weekend.
Rome for the craft-beer revival, Warsaw for the new Polish breweries, Seattle for the Pacific Northwest scene, Tromso for a beer above the Arctic Circle. The rest of the map, ready when you are.
Three cities, three beer days
Pick a city, plan the day around the glass.
A cellar afternoon in Vienna, a craft crawl in Wellington, a beer safari above the Arctic in Tromso. Three cities, three very different ways to spend a day on the beer.
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