With more than 30 breweries in San Diego County, San Diego is one of America’s best destinations for craft beer. Choose from three San Diego brewery tours, where you'll taste a variety of beers at some of the city’s most notable breweries and learn about the brewing process. Don’t worry about driving after drinking -- you’ll either be walking or riding a bus as your guide takes you to the best spots in town.
Walking Tour: Begin your walking tour of downtown San Diego with a stroll to Karl Strass brewery, known for its local IPAs. You'll enjoy a beer-tasting with a quick explanation of the plant and brewing process. Next you'll see sights of downtown San Diego as you continue to Rock Bottom Brewery for a quick taste of their various brews, and then you’ll head to the Yard House to see 50 different selections of beer on tap and sample a few! The tour continues to a popular downtown hangout, the Beer Co, where you can taste more hand-crafted brew. You’ll then end the tour at Altitude, a fun rooftop bar. Day Bus Tour: After boarding the bus, you’ll visit approximately three breweries, which may include Stone Brewery, Green Flash, Lost Abbey, Iron Fist or Ballast Point. This daytime bus tour is for the hard-core craft beer-lover who enjoys hoppy and earthy brews. Go behind the scenes and learn from local brewers how their unique beer is made (although they won’t spill all the beans!). You'll tour brewery facilities and then taste the beer at each place you visit (usually three breweries). For lunch you'll stop at either San Marcos Brewery or Oceanside Ale Works.
Night Bus Tour: On this nighttime bus tour, you'll hear about the brewing process and learn what makes San Diego beer so special -- so earthy and hoppy! For example, did you know the craft beer from San Diego’s breweries has some of the highest alcohol content this side of the Northern Hemisphere? Facts like that will keep you entertained as you visit the breweries, where you’ll have beer tastings and go behind the scenes.You'll visit three breweries including Mission Brewery, Green Flash or Lost Abbey and taste the beer at each place you visit. The night will end with a sit-down dinner at a San Diego craft brewery, either San Marcos Brewery or Pizza Port.
The reason I gave this one star is due to the following:_br/_ Viator says 6 hour night bus tour. Company says 4 1/2_br/_ The first brewery you do is mission brewery and the tour is not private it is with everyone else that showed up at the brewery who wants a tour. This means you have to wait until the tour starts._br/_ The second brewery is ballast point brewery and there is no tour and you have to wait in line like everyone else there for your four sample beers._br/_ The last place was a restaurant in ocean beach that the majority voted to go to instead of another brewery. There you get a regular beer from whatever the restaurant has on tap and a entrée that is not more than 15._br/_ So if you are looking to wait in lines and get an experience anyone who did not take this tour can get or just want a vehicle to take you from place to place and not have to worry about paying for a cab or uber than this is for you.
Review by: Jose Germán H, February 2013
It was awesome ! Everything was well organize , our tour guy was great , my gf and i had a wonderful evenning! Btw i think we got more than tipsy lol
Review by: Cynthia D, October 2011
excellant leader eventhough it was Mike's 1st time.
Review by: Steve W, October 2011
Although the brewery's and the beer were great it was poorly organized. When we book an event such as this we expect the organizer to make the tour experience better for us. We had to stand in line to get tickets for a tour, we had to wait to get tickets for beer samples. I can't see how this was any better than getting a group of friends together with a designated driver. There was no value add to the trip._br/_
The trip was delayed by 3 hours and I was never contacted, I only found out when I phoned the tour company and asked where the bus was. The bus driver however was excellent and went out of his way to improve our trip.
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