BREWERY TOURS · AROUND THE WORLD
Follow the beer to the source.
Cellar pours in Prague, beer-hall benches in Munich, lambic houses in Brussels, craft taprooms from Portland to Melbourne. Real reviews of the brewery tours and tastings worth booking, in the cities worth raising a glass in.
Worth the trip for the beer alone
Three cities built on beer.
Some cities have a great brewery or two. Prague, Munich and Brussels are built on the stuff: the cellar lager, the beer hall, the wild abbey ale. These are the ones drinkers plan an entire trip around.
Czech Republic
Prague
Pilsner was born an hour west of here, and the Czechs drink more of it per head than anyone on earth. A local takes you down into the brewery cellars where the lager still rests on oak, pours you the unfiltered tank beer the tourists never order, and walks you to the wood-panelled halls that have served the same pint for a century. No city does the golden lager better.
- 1 Eating Prague Food & Beer Tour by Eating Europe
- 2 Prague Pilsner Urquell Experience with 3 Free Beer Tastings
- 3 Hidden Beer Gems of Old Prague
Germany
Munich
Munich keeps beer in halls the size of cathedrals and gardens under the chestnut trees. A guide walks you through the brewhouse where the Helles and the Dunkel are made, hands you a litre stein, and sits you at the long shared benches where strangers become a table. Come in autumn and the whole city is doing it at once.
- 1 Bavarian Beer and Food Evening Tour in Munich
- 2 Classic Mike’s Bike Tour daily @ 11.30 incl Beer Garden & Surfers
- 3 Beer & Beyond: Munich Beer Tour
Belgium
Brussels
Belgium brews like nowhere else: wild lambic left open to the night air, gueuze blended in dusty cellars, abbey ales the monks still make. A guide leads you from the old lambic houses on the edge of the city to the back-street bars pouring two hundred beers, and orders the ones a first-timer would walk straight past.
- 1 Hungry Mary’s Famous Beer and Chocolate Tour in Brussels
- 2 Belgian Beer Tasting in Brussels
- 3 Marc’s Brussels Beer Tasting Tour
If you only book one
The brewery tour more drinkers rave about than any other.
Out of every tour on the site, this is the one that sends people home telling everyone they know to book it.
The crowd-pleasers
The Most Popular Brewery Tours Right Now
Prague cellar pours, Munich beer halls, Brussels lambic bars, Nashville taprooms. The bookings drinkers are happiest they made.
Start with a city
The best breweries, city by city.
Prague for the cellar lager, Munich for the beer halls, Brussels for the lambic. Pick the city you are headed to and we will show you the brewery tours worth booking there.
Where to go thirsty
Three great beer countries, three different pours.
Start with the style you came to drink. Each of these is a country the site covers deeply, and a completely different glass waiting at the end of it.
Prague
The best lager never leaves the cellar.
Prague drinks pilsner the way it was meant to be drunk: unfiltered, unpasteurised, poured straight from the tank in the cellar where it rests. A guide takes you down into the brewing houses under the old town, pulls you a tankové the tourist bars never stock, and walks you to the wood-panelled halls that have served the same pour for a hundred years.
See the best Prague brewery tours →Munich
A litre at the long shared bench.
Munich serves beer in halls the size of cathedrals and gardens under the chestnut trees, and a tour walks you through the brewhouse where the Helles and the Dunkel are made before it hands you the stein. You learn the purity law, the difference between the cellars, and how to flag down the right waiter, then take a seat at the long benches where strangers end up a table.
See the best Munich brewery tours →Bruges
A Trappist on every corner of the canal.
Bruges packs more great beer per cobblestone than almost anywhere: a working brewery hidden behind a medieval facade, abbey ales poured in candlelit cafes, a beer wall stacked with hundreds of bottles. A tour walks you over the bridges to the family breweries and the bars the day-trippers never find, and pours you the dubbels and tripels the locals keep to themselves.
See the best Bruges brewery tours →Nashville
Music City runs on craft beer.
Between the honky-tonks, Nashville has quietly built one of the South’s best craft scenes, clustered in East Nashville and the Gulch. A tour hops you from taproom to taproom by van, pours you the hazy IPAs and barrel-aged stouts each brewery is known for, and times it so you finish where the night gets loud.
- 1 All-Inclusive Pub Crawl with Moonshine, Cocktails, and Craft Beer
- 2 Nashville Brewery & Distillery Tour by Golf Cart
- 3 Nashville Combo Tour: Sightseeing, Murals & Brewery/Distillery
By the glass
How big a session are you after?
A quiet tasting flight by an Amsterdam canal. A taproom hop through East Nashville. A litre stein on a Munich beer-hall bench. Pick the city that sounds like your kind of afternoon on the beer.
Ease in
Amsterdam, a flight by the canal.A windmill brewery on the edge of the canal ring, a tasting paddle of house beers and a guide who explains what is in the glass. A relaxed first round, nothing you need to keep up with.
Drink like a local
Nashville, taproom to taproom.A pour at one East Nashville brewery, then on to the next the regulars fill after work. A guide walks you between the taprooms, talks you through the styles and gets you the pours the menu buries.
All in
Munich, a bench in the beer hall.A litre stein in the great halls and the cellar where it is brewed, a tour through the kit and a seat at the long shared benches until the band starts. The full Bavarian night, start to finish.
San Diego
The capital of American craft beer.
More than a hundred and fifty breweries crowd San Diego County, and the West Coast IPA was more or less invented here. A tour drives you between the breweries of North Park, Miramar and the coast, pours you the double IPAs and barrel-aged sours each one made its name on, and lets someone else handle the wheel so you can keep tasting.
See all 4 San Diego brewery tours →By city
Pick a city to raise a glass in.
Prague for the cellar lager. Munich for the beer halls. Brussels for the lambic. Bruges for the abbey ales. Berlin for the craft taprooms. Amsterdam for the canal-side breweries.
More cities
More cities worth a thirsty weekend.
Nashville for the taprooms, San Diego for the West Coast IPA, Porto for the riverside craft, Gdansk for the Baltic brews. The rest of the map, ready when you are.
Three cities, three beer days
Pick a city, build the day around the glass.
The pilsner pilgrimage in Pilsen, an abbey-ale afternoon in Bruges, the Koelsch crawl in Cologne. Three cities, three completely different ways to spend a day on the beer.
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