NEW ZEALAND · BREWERIES
A South Island fortnight has room for only so much. These 7 breweries tours earn their slot, each with its price, its rating and the detail that decides it.
Tour Speight’s historic Dunedin brewery, learn New Zealand brewing stories, then sample beers and cider for excellent value.
“Interesting overview about how beer was brewed "back in the day". Annika was a great tour guide. She told some fun stories about the original owners of the brewery.”
Tour Dunedin’s Speight’s Brewery, trace 144 years of brewing, see old and modern facilities, and taste award-winning beers for $28.
“Was in Dunedin and saw this hidden gem. I enjoyed the history of Speights. Interesting they source from an underground spring and part of the licence to do that is that they make the spring water available to the public. The tasting was very enjoyable.”
Explore Marlborough wineries, breweries, museums, and food stops by flexible hop-on hop-off coach from Picton or Blenheim.
“Overall good but it was confusing re pickup times and how they did the drop off run. Once we worked it out it was good. A couple of the stops the places hadn’t even opened when we were being dropped off we had to wait for them to open. Our driver wasn’t as enthusiastic as I would have liked but by the end of the day it didn’t matter as we had had a great time at a few of the wineries. Make sure you book a head if you want to have lunch or do tastings as most places you had to book into. We weren’t aware of that…”
Explore four Wellington-area breweries, taste local craft beer, hear stories from expert guides, and enjoy hotel or port pickup on this four-hour tour.
“The Wellington craft beer tour was excellent. Our guide was Tom and we had an incredible time with him. By the end of the tour he wasn’t just our guide, but a friend! He took us to some amazing breweries and shared some great info on the surrounding area. We were a bit slow on our tour (really enjoyed the first brewery) and Tom made sure we still got plenty of time at all the scheduled stops! Would not have been able to see all of the breweries in such a condensed time without this tour and we were glad to have gotten out of downtown Wellington for a bit…”
Explore three Queenstown breweries, taste 13 local beers, enjoy a four-course paired lunch, and ride with a local guide for $110.
“alot of drinks for the price of the tour including lunch. lunch was including a beer per each course which was 4course and very filling. would highly recommend”
Review of Auckland’s private Kumeu wine and Hallertau beer tour, with hotel pickup, tastings, lunch, pricing, stops, and booking advice.
“Highly recommend this tour! We went to 3 great wineries and 1 amazing brewery! Brett was wonderful and we had an amazing time! Walked away with many bottles of incredible New Zealand wines and port!”
Review of Auckland’s full-day small-group tour, from Mount Eden and Muriwai Beach to Hallertau Brewery, Devonport, and North Head.
“Simon was absolutely brilliant went above and beyond to make sure we seen as much as we could, nothing was too much trouble.”
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