The 5 Best Brisbane Drinks Tours

1.Mount Tamborine Wine Tasting Tour from Brisbane or the Gold Coast

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 456 reviews · from $169Our pick

Spend about eight hours visiting four Mount Tamborine tasting venues with a small group, including wineries and Tamborine Mountain Distillery. Your guide, often Boris, Ari, or Barry, leads tastings and keeps the day moving. A two-course winery lunch, snacks, water, and hotel transfers are included, with pickup from Brisbane at 8:30 am.

“Beautiful drive to some amazing wineries. The best part was our driver who had the best jokes and kept conversations going.”

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2.XXXX Brewery Tour

★★★★★★★★★★4.5 · 345 reviews · from $29Best value

Spend 90 minutes inside Brisbane’s XXXX Brewery with a local guide such as Paul, Josh, Ken, or Dan. Learn how the beer is made, see the brewing and bottling areas, watch the weekday packaging line when it is running, then taste three XXXX beers. Add a burger and fries for $18.

“Great tour that covers the history of brewing, the story of XXXX, all of their advances and initiatives, and they still invite you to their tasting room at the end too. The burger and fries are amazing and the other orders looked just as delicious. Ken is a great guide. Thank-you for returning to the brewery to lead these tours. You add great context balanced with the fun of seeing the end to end workflow and rounded out with some beer.”

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3.Deluxe Wine Tour to Tamborine Mountain, includes two course lunch

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 175 reviews · from $236

Spend about eight hours exploring Tamborine Mountain with a guide such as Michael, Tash or Peter. You’ll visit boutique wineries, a distillery and possibly a brewery, enjoy a two-course lunch, sample local drinks, and stop for Great Dividing Range views. Hotel pickup may be available from selected Brisbane areas.

“This was a last-minute replacement for the usual Mt Tambourine tour - re-routed because of storm damage to Mt Tambourine.”

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4.XXXX Beer Brewery Tour and Beer Tasting

★★★★★★★★★★4.6 · 172 reviews · 1h 30m · from $29

Spend 90 minutes inside Brisbane’s heritage-listed XXXX Brewery with an English-speaking guide such as Ken or Zack. Follow the brewing process, learn the story behind the XXXX name, inspect raw ingredients, and finish with fresh beer tastings. Bring photo ID and flat, closed-toe shoes. Packaging lines may be idle on weekends.

“our guide Ken was brilliant, very knowledgeable, good fun. would recommend”

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5.Tamborine Wine & Distillery Tour

★★★★★★★★★★4.7 · 100 reviews · 8 hours · from $134

Ride from Brisbane in a comfortable, air-conditioned mini bus for guided tastings at two Tamborine Mountain wineries and Tamborine Mountain Distillery. Your English-speaking guide shares local stories and wine tips, with a scenic lookout, Gallery Walk free time, onboard snacks, and water. Lunch is your choice and cost at Gallery Walk.

“We had a great day enjoying various wines and food.”

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