It is biggest of two Goose Island pubs in Chicago and is the only place - apart from main brewery site at 1800 West Fulton St - where the beer is brewed.
Goose Island is Chicago's only "craft beer" i.e. microbrewery and has been going since 1988.
They do brewery tours at N. Clybourn site on Sunday afternoons at $3 for a tour, full beer tastings and a souvenir glass to take away! Its ideal to have a leisurely lunch there (the food is also great, esp. the burgers) followed by the tour.

Goose Island Clybourn Brewpub/Brewery
1800 North Clybourn
Chicago, IL 60614, USA
www.gooseisland.com

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Milwaukee, Wisconsin, is the home of American brewing. Any beer fan is going to want to visit a city where the baseball team is called "The Brewers", and whose mascot "Bernie the Brewer" entertains kids at half time. In terms of brewery tours, don't get blinded by the bright lights of the Miller Brewery Tour - head downtown to the Lakefront Brewery which overlooks the Milwaukee River. A nominal $6 gets you the tour and also a free commemorative pint glass (ok it's not a proper English pint, but it's a quality glass). I don't actually remember too much about the tour, because the $6 entry fee also entitles you to four free pints of their specialty beers, plus a voucher for another beer at one of the pubs that they distribute to. Hiccup. As well as a large variety of ales and lagers, they also brew a number of seasonal beers - my favourite being the autumnal Pumpkin beer. Staff are great and they are very happy for you to drink away your afternoon on their terrace or in their large beer hall.

www.lakefrontbrewery.com

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Australia's oldest continuously operating brewery is Cascade on the foothills of Mt Wellington in Hobart.

You still get to walk through the factory (ie its not an audio visual "experience"), and at the end you get tokens to taste the product.

If you hang around for more than ten minutes after the end of the tour, you'll more than likely collect a few more tokens from the those non-beer afficionados who scarper quite quickly post tour.

Unfortunately now owned by Megabrewer Carlton and United, you will have to endure parent company propaganda regarding such things as how VB can be completely brewed and packaged in 24 hours (hint: don't EVER drink it), though all in all an interesting tour in most pleasant surroundings.

Cascade Road, South Hobart Tasmania. Bookings essential.
www.cascadebrewery.com.au
+61362218300

Google map: tinyurl.com/mlsfje

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On the banks of the Derwent River, about 45 minutes' drive west of central Hobart is the Two Metre Tall Brewery. It is situated in a converted shearing shed. It's a compact operation, but pumps out some amazing product, from the Derwent Clear Ale, to the (Beautiful) Cleansing Ale, and the Oyster Stout that they contract brew for the Barilla restauarant near the airport (it's made with real oysters, shell n all!).

www.2mt.com.au/

2862 Lyell Highway, HAYES, TASMANIA 7140. +61362611930

Google map: tinyurl.com/lsoqz2

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From the sloping mountains to the curve of the bay, the whole patchwork of Dublin's roofs, towers and spires is spread before you as you sip your complimentary pint of the black stuff in the Gravity Bar on the 7th storey of the Guinness Storehouse. As you ascend the building, the tour introduces you to the four ingredients in Guinness - hops, water, barley, yeast - and to 250 years of brewing and cask making traditions. I loved the exhibition of 1930s paintings of the Guinness toucan, ostrich and carthorse used to spread the message that "Guinness is good for you", nursing mothers, tired travellers and all.

guinness.com
Guinness Storehouse, St. James's Gate, Dublin 8, Ireland
tinyurl.com/kw9euu

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