Small-group brewery, winery, distillery and food tours of Canberra led by guides who know the makers. Five public tours, plus private charters for groups, weddings, bucks, hens and corporates.
Beer, wine, spirits, food and one with axe throwing — pick a half-day, a full day, or a custom private charter built around your group.
CAN you beer it? Yes you CANBEERA! A full Saturday inside Canberra's craft beer scene with the people who actually brew there.
Beer-ducation in the Capital. Three breweries, three and a half hours, every pour led by the people who made it.
Canberra raiding with axes & ales. Throw axes, sample award-winning beers, eat a proper pub lunch — all in one afternoon.
Beer, wine & spirits in the ACT. Three venues, four hours, one tour for the indecisive (and for groups with mixed tastes).
A wine, spirits and sweets tour in Canberra? A capital idea. Two cellar doors, a chocolatier, a gin distillery and a long lunch.
Same producers, same behind-the-scenes access, your guest list. Private coach, dedicated guide, custom itinerary — every day of the week.
Eighteen years ago, Daves was one Dave running a single pub tour through The Rocks because the official ones missed all the good stuff. The Canberra crew opened in 2017 with the same idea — a small group, a local Dave, and the brewer / vigneron / distiller / chocolatier doing the talking themselves.
We like to keep our tours small so you can get to know the makers, see their production process, and ask any questions you've got. Five public tours run in Canberra plus private charters for groups — and another 33 tours across our six sister regions, all on the same booking-fee policy (zero). We are all Dave. Daves is all of us.
Sister tours run by our network across six other Australian regions. Same booking, same booking-fee policy (zero), same small-group format.
Convict-era pubs, working-class brewing precincts, and the Hunter Valley a comfortable bus-ride away. Sydney is our flagship region and where it all started.
Craft beer in industrial Brunswick, pinot noir in the Yarra, gin on the Mornington — Melbourne's drinks scene rewards the curious traveller more than any other city.
More distilleries per square kilometre than any city on earth — and a food and beer scene to match. Tasmania is the under-rated drinks destination of the country.
Two-hour drive from Sydney, three centuries of wine history, and the country's only world-class semillon. The Hunter is where Australian wine started.
Queensland craft has gone serious. Add the Gold and Sunshine Coasts and you've got a coastline of breweries with the best beer-garden views in the country.
Sugar-cane rum, tropical-fruit wine, and a reef-side beer garden. The Far North's drinks scene is small, surprising, and rewards the curious traveller.
Three world-class wine regions inside an hour of the city, plus a small but excellent inner-Adelaide gin and beer scene. The most-overlooked drinks state in the country.
Australia's oldest wine region (the Swan Valley pre-dates the Hunter), an under-rated city beer scene, and a sunset over the Indian Ocean. WA punches harder than its postcode suggests.
Australia's most-awarded wine region, on the Indian Ocean. Three multi-day tours covering the headline cellar doors plus the small-producer back-roads — best done as a 2-3 night trip.
The country's youngest scene, in the country's most surprising city. Tropical-fruit wine, sugar-cane spirits, and beer brewed for 35°C drinking weather.
Notes from guides on the ground. Vintage reports, season-by-season recommendations, and the occasional very strong opinion.
Eight criteria, two non-negotiables, and the reason we still don't visit two of the bigger names in town. A behind-the-curtain post.
A small city of 460,000 routinely takes home more brewing gold per capita than any other Australian capital. Here's the working theory on why.
Where to start, what to drink, and which precincts to walk between. Twenty minutes of reading saves you a wasted afternoon.
Most public tours sell out 2 to 3 weeks ahead in summer and over Floriade. Lock yours in — or get a quote for a private charter built around your group.