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Jump on a Brewery Tour to learn the art of creating one of the nation’s oldest beer recipes, from start to finish, while you explore previously unseen areas of the brewery. Finish your visit with a refreshing tasting paddle of four Cascade beers.

Or if you have a thirst for History rather than beer, join one of our Historic tours. From humble beginnings, a succession of dreamers and doers have diversified and refined Cascade Brewery from a mill by a stream to a fountain in the foothills, quenching the thirst of generations. Though long since gone, these custodians of Cascade have left their marks upon the site. Stand where they stood and see what they saw. Join us as we unbottle our past and tap a tale or two of this iconic Tasmanian institution.

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Standing in startling, Gothic isolation next to the clean-running Hobart Rivulet, Australia’s oldest brewery (1824) is still pumping out superb beers. The daily one-hour tours involve plenty of history, with tastings at the end. Note that under-16s aren't permitted on the main brewery tour (take the family-friendly Beer School tour instead), and that brewery machinery might not be running if you're here on a weekend (brewers have weekends too). To get here, take bus 446, 447 or 449.

If you prefer to skip straight to the liquid stuff, the attached Brewhouse has a restaurant and bar looking onto the brewery's finely figured sandstone facade.

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The best brewery tour in Tasmania

Whilst several mainstream breweries exist here, I think the best brewery tour in Tasmania is at the Cascade Brewery.  Visiting the Cascade Brewery during our visit to Hobart was just too good an opportunity to miss.  Sampling the local beers is something we’ve become quite accustomed to, and learning more about the brewing process seems to lend some extra authority to the whole drinking process.  Well, that’s our story anyway and we’re sticking to it.

The Cascade Brewery is a short distance out of Hobart and is easily accessible if you have a car.  For once, we had kept ourselves car free, so on this occasion, the public bus was the best way of getting there.  The bonus of course in taking the bus is that we didn’t need to worry about a designated driver!  I’d actually go so far as recommending the bus option, unless you have a non drinker in your group, as this will allow you to take full advantage of the suite of Cascade products.

The first thing you will notice on approach to the brewery is the beautiful building.  Dating back to the early 1800’s, it remains the hub of beer production for the Cascade label.

The second thing you will notice is the stunning gardens that surround the buildings across from the brewery.

On a warm day, grabbing some food from inside the restaurant and sitting outside on these tables would be just perfect.  With the mountains in the background, and the Cascade buildings, it’s the best backdrop for a brunch or lunch.  On the day we were here, the wind was quite literally howling, hence why all tables were empty.

History of Cascade

On the front of the building, two dates intrigued us.  The first was 1824, the second 1927.  Before I had even commenced the tour, I had a question for the guide.  Whilst it is usual practice to see a year of origin on the front of a building, it is a different matter to see two dates.

1824 was the year in which the Cascade Brewing Co was formed.  In somewhat typical Australian fashion, it operated as a sawmilling business, despite its name.  Later in 1831, an English man, Peter Degraves, saw value in using the crisp clean waters flowing down from Mt Wellington and used it to brew beer.  The first beer under the Cascade Brewing Co label was produced in 1832, making this the oldest working brewery in Australia today.

To assist with more modern technology, three levels were further added to the brewery, in keeping with its heritage and style, in 1927.  This is where the second date on the building originated from.

A rough life

The brewery had its ups and downs over time.  With the death of Peter Degraves, his sons took over the ownership and later sold to private enterprise.

In 1967, a raging bushfire swept down Mt Wellington and through southern Tasmania, taking everything in its path, including the brewery.  Despite being extensively damaged, the owners vowed to rebuild, and with the help of the workers (none of whom had to be made redundant) and other Tasmanian brewing companies, Cascade was back on its feet in three months.

Today, Cascade is the premier brand in southern Tasmania.  Only some of its beer is exported out of Tasmania, meaning that a visit here (and to Tasmania) allows you to get a taste of a beer not readily found in the market.  It’s a shame in a way as the beers I loved the most are the ones I can’t get at home, but at the same time, it makes it a little special.  Despite higher demand, Cascade limits the production of its own brew and uses excess production capacity to produce for other labels including Matilda Bay (Fat Yak, Wild Yak etc)

Quirky fact

Did you know the X reference to beer relates to the alcoholic strength?  So, for example, a beer with one X is relatively low in strength as compared to one with XXXX.  This process of identification was all that was used before technology and improvements in science meant it could be measured more accurately.  Having been a Queenslander all my life, it was a little embarrassing to learn this is why our local beer called XXXX (Fourex) is so named.

An interesting work culture

Tasmanians love their beer and those who worked at the brewery loved it even more.  Right up until the early 1990s (if you can believe that !), workers were allowed to drink on the job.  In the very early years, workers drank as much as they liked all day.  As the years moved on and the brewery fell into more corporate ownership, the rules were modified.  However, with a workforce that was used to drinking all day, it wasn’t an easy change to make.

Today, stringent health and safety legislation prevents any of this from happening however free beers are still put on for the workers every Friday.

The brewery tour

If you love beer and are interested in the production process then this tour is for you.  With only an hour of your time required, it could be suggested that even if beer wasn’t your thing (but history and old buildings were), then this would still be a great tour to be part of.

Such is the demand for these tours, they are run every day (except Christmas Day and Good Friday), from 10 am until 5 pm.

The tour starts at the front of the building where a short history of the brewery is provided.  From there, the tour moves inside the building and through the various stages of production.  Upon completion of the tour, the group moves back across to the Visitor Centre for the final part of the tour, the tasting.

The tasting is generous.  I thought, pre-tour, that the tasting would see us standing at the bar having a few sips of beer from the draft taps.  Not so.  Each person receives a beer flight, containing four 7oz glasses of any beer or cider of your choice.  We mixed it up so that we could spread our taste buds across as many of their beers as possible.  The lager, draught and pale ale all came up trumps for me.

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• If seeing the brewery in full production is important, book the tours during the week.  On the weekend there is no production.  This does change the dynamic of the tour.
• For reasons of workers’ privacy, the taking of photos is not permitted inside the brewery.
• Wear shoes that are compatible with climbing industrial mesh stairs (large gaps in them).  Remember you are in a busy production area so leave your fancy shoes and high heels for another time.
• Limit the wearing of flowing clothing and jewellery.  You will be asked to take jewellery off if you do wear it.  Secure lockers are provided for storage of such items.
• The tour is not physically onerous although there are quite a few stairs.
• It’s a good idea to book online, especially if you wish to secure a specific time slot.  Demand in peak time can be high.
• Safety is the number one priority so ensure you understand all the safety rules and be in a position where you can hear the tour guide at all times.
• If you want to hang around for a while in the bar, restaurant or gardens,  I recommend taking a tour earlier in the day.  Going late into the day pushes you closer to the restaurant and bar closing time.
• Catch public transport out here.  It’s easy and everyone can have a drink if they wish without worrying about driving.
• Tour attendees must be over 16 and over 18 for the tasting.

Restaurant and bar

Inside the restaurant, copper pipes reach from the floor up and over the bar, carrying the Cascade liquid gold to the glasses of patrons.  The bar and restaurant have been designed to let the outside in.  It’s a great way of seeing the chilly wind whip through the trees whilst being tucked up inside in the warm, drinking frosty beers.  Sounds like heaven, right?

The bar and restaurant is open for usual business seven days a week.

Visit Cascade Brewery and Visitor Centre

The Cascade Brewery and Visitor Centre is a great place to visit, whether you are doing the tour or not.  Be sure to check it out if you are in Hobart.

There are plenty of BnBs around Hobart and its surrounding areas.  We chose to stay at the Mantra Collins in the CBD, simply because of its proximity to everything.  You can read more about that stay here .

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28 thoughts on “The Cascade Brewery tour – history of beer making, beautiful buildings and great beer !”

I love beer! Haha yeah, bit obvious but I do. This brewery tour looks fantastic. I’m loving the resurgence in properly made ales and beers. I’m visiting Oz in September, I’ll have to keep an eye out for some of these beers.

Some fascinating facts and helpful tips for anyone who wants to book a similar tour. This tour sounds lovely and something which I would really enjoy. I have been on a brewery tour before here in Brisbane and I loved it but this place looks a lot more better.

I’d love a DD….plenty to do here without drinking beer. The restaurant looked pretty good too.

cheers Fernanda

Yep it was a great day.

yes not a bad idea

I didn’t know Tasmania was famous for the breweries… Another reason to visit it! I love the idea of the tour and all the historical points you brought with this post ;)

The scenery of this brewery is beautiful and your pictures show it! I especially loved the building. We’ve never been on wine, brewery, tequila tour but it seems like something we’d enjoy a lot! Hope we find ourselves in this part of the world next year.

I’m thinking I really need to get to Tasmania now! I love the history of this brewery, tragic that it burnt down in the fire but awesome to hear of the commitment to rebuild and not lose the original tour. I’m not a big beer drinker but I do love visiting breweries, fascinating process to go through. But i can’t believe that up until the 90s the staff were able to drink on the job! Crazy now when you think about health and safety standards. Great piece!

Maybe the European brands should adapt to the x labelling. While I know the %, but it would be easier explaining it to others!

Wow definitely have to try this!!

I must say, the one column format really does so much more justice to the photographs. This is a beautiful collection. I specially admire the one with the benches.

For beer drinkers, it’s hard not to envy Cascade Brewery’s employees. :-) It’s also amazing how their brewery stood the test of time and is now a symbol of resilience and perseverance.

Not so much a day trip but it’s good to get there from Melbourne.

There were people on the tour who didn’t drink either but they still loved it.

I am quite interested in joining this brewery tour because I would have a chance to see Hobart. The Cascade Brewery has beautiful surroundings. I do not drink beer but I am eager to watch the production process.

I am in Melbourne for 4 months and Tasmania is a good day trip! Thanks.

First off, the grounds and building are incredibly appealing! I am not a beer drinker myself, but I love tours such as this. I think the history behind the lace is as interesting as the product at the end. (That said, I am always up for a good tasting of almost anything!) And I love that you can take the bus out, it makes for a much safer trip home!! I’d love to see this brewery for myself!

What a long and interesting history for a brewery. The grounds look magnificent and I an sure add to the atmosphere of the historic place. So fortunate that the business was able to survive a wildfire and continue on to this day. Maybe it was motivation for workers to help rebuild knowing if they lost the brewery they would lose the only job they could ever drink at.

I’ve actually never been to a brewery, so it’s interesting to learn how it’s made! The building and the grounds are absolutely beautiful, and similar to wineries I’ve been to. Living near a large/popular beer city in the US, most of the breweries are in the downtown area–much less greenery!

Love the location of the place. Love the XXX factor. That must have been really funny when you found out the meaning of the Xs.

Good to know about the Xs signifying the strength of the beer! I’ve discovered a few craft beers I like lately, like coffee beers, but generally I’m not much of a beer drinker. I’d be all over all those ciders I see available though!

Good thing you took the bus with that much tastings available. I am not a fan of any beer, but I think the x would be my preference over the xxx (BTW-that was a really interesting fact). However, this is somewhere we would go as hubby loves a good beer and good beer tour. I would enjoy the ambience, but could still be the designated driver.

Tasmania has been on my bucklet list since long. Hopw to visit here too when I viisit Tasmania.

What a beautiful surrounding to have a brewery in. I have never been to one but your pictures show it just like I imagined it would look. Really great day out it seems

Love the trivia about the X’s! I’m definitely a 1X kind of beer-drinker. Funny, that XXX can mean something completely different too. Cascade looks very pretty and a great place for a beer tour. Sitting in the sunshine and enjoy some pints after the learning part – a day well spent I think.

Great fun and fascinating facts too. As you said, quite a lot of beer – I’m just as pleasantly surprised as you at the size of taster measures

Wow, what a neat place! Did not know that about X = beer strength! Sounds like great place to spend a day

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Cascade Brewery Tour Hobart

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Only a five-minute drive from Hobart’s CBD in the foothills of Mount Wellington, the Cascade Brewery Tour is a must for lovers of beer and cider.

The Cascade Brewery

Having operated since 1824, the Brewery is Australia’s oldest, and a tour is a history lesson as well as beer making. Originally a sawmill but converted to a brewery because of the mountain water onsite, the building is still in use. The dates on the front of the building refer to the extension made in 1927 when new equipment required more height. This is still visible in the façade, where the material for the lower three floor differs from the upper levels.

In addition to tours, the brewery offers meals and a bar in the old manager’s residence, where you can relax after the tour, or just enjoy a meal or drink.

The Cascade Brewery Tour

Several different tours are available depending on age (16 years old and over can go on the extended factory tour that we did). An all ages tour caters for everyone, but does not enter the factory, nor does it offer beer and cider samples afterwards.

A safety briefing and protective equipment (hard hat, glasses, gloves and hair net and fluoro vest) are given at the start of the tour. This not only ensures your safety, as your are touring a working brewery, but also keeps the beer making process safe from you.

Unfortunately, no photos are allowed on the tour, so the secret of Cascades beer and cider process is still safe.

The comprehensive tour follows the whole process from grain delivery to bottling, packaging and distribution. We found it all very interesting especially the brewing and malting part.

We also found out that all waste products are used either on site or as animal feed. Nice to know that beer is environmentally conscious, as well as tasting great.

There was also a look at cider production, which uses some of the apples Tasmania is famous for.

Finishing the tour is a tasting platter of four beers or ciders. As we had a platter each, we were able to taste all of the beers and ciders on offer.

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This was a fun tour that we really enjoyed. Seeing the whole beer making process and then tasting the product was great fun. If you are in Hobart, it’s worth doing.

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13 Replies to “Cascade Brewery Tour Hobart”

Wonder if the old beer keg is still usable. LOL.

That would be interesting. Probably would pass today’s safety and health standards!

LOL. That’s so true.

We enjoyed this tour pre-Covid and the beer-passion of the workers came through loud and clear! 🙂

Our tour guide loved his beer too. It was great to have someone who loved what they were doing

What ancient building.and became a great brewery. A fun place to visit.

It was a fun place to visit, with a great history.

What a beautiful building! To go on a tour through this place, must be a joy … with the bonus at the end of tasting some beers and ciders 😉.

Yes, it was great fun and the beer and cider tasting also very good.

I would like to sit there in the lounge and enjoy a beer 🙂 Nice building too. Thanks for sharing. Greetz, Rudi

You’re welcome, pleased you liked the story.

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Brewery tours, demonstrations (on our brilliant little pilot brewery) and, of course, fresh beer to drink. Our new premises will give us a proud home and a place to come visit and chat about all things beer, taste beers and take away one or more of your favourites.

Our beer can be found at many great Tassie pubs as well as all our core and seasonal range at our Tap Room at Macquarie Point. We also now have our bottle range available in Melbourne bottle-shops and soon beyond. Please check our website/facebook page for further details.

Hobart Brewing Co. is inspired by Hobart’s rich brewing heritage of the 19th century while celebrating Tasmania’s natural advantages and ideal brewing conditions. Our vision and passion is simple: to produce quality flavoursome beers that reflect our unique Tasmanian identity and celebrate our local ingredients.

Our brewers love the fact that Tasmanian ingredients are fueling innovation in markets much further afield. Overseas breweries are seeking out our hops to brew their own versions of Tassie ales and we just wanted to get in first. Having experienced first hand America’s beer resurgence, our Head Brewer was firmly of the belief that Hobart was ripe for its own.

We share a passion and determination to celebrate great Tasmanian beer and invite you to visit us at our central Hobart taproom and brewery where we brew our favourite beers with Tasmania’s best ingredients while providing a gentle nod to Hobart’s past as a colonial brewing giant.

Delicious independent Tasmanian beer. Currently brewing Harbour Master Tasmanian Ale, Saint Christopher Cream Ale, Iron Pot Rye Porter, Xtra Pale Ale (Tassie strength!), & IPA as well as a variety of rotating seasonals.

Harbour Master Ale

Harbour Master is a uniquely Tasmanian Ale that blends three distinct hop varieties grown right here in the Derwent Valley. This copper ale is tightly balanced and highly sessionable.

Brewer’s notes: “With this beer we wanted to showcase some of Tassie’s finest hops. While there are now many great examples of American pales, as well as English, German and Belgian-style beers, there hasn’t been a distinct Tasmanian style. We created Harbour Master as a beer that we imagined to be a distinctive Tasmanian Ale. (ABV 4.4%, IBU 35).

Seasonal IPA

At any time of the year you can drop in and expect that there will be at least one IPA on tap and a few more during the annual Hoptoberfest festival to celebrate hoppy beers. Some of the hoppy beers brewed to date include Colorado IPA, Double Harbour Master Red IPA, a collaboration Grapefruit IPA (with the Winston), Hop Eye IPA, Fresh Hop collaboration IPA (with Modus Operandi), Tascadian Dark Ale, and Houblonee (Hoppy) Saison.

Iron Por Rye Porter

A robust Porter inspired by a unique southern Tasmanian landmark. The Iron Pot lighthouse has guided ships out of the treacherous Storm Bay into Hobart's calmer waters since the early 1800s. The Whalers would often leave a fire burning on the "Iron Pot" to guide those ships yet to come in. Porter was the dominant beer of the 1800s throughout England and Tasmania and provided the early convicts working on the first lighthouse and the keepers that followed some comfort having faced the rigors of the great southern swell.

Rye Porter verges from a traditional Porter with the addition of generous malted rye. Pours midnight dark with a spicy biscuit character underpinned with a bittersweet chocolate finish. (ABV 4.8%, IBU 25)

Saison Barrell Aged Program #1

Aged for 4 months in Forty Spotted winter release Gin barrels and Grant Burges Ports barrels. This first release in our Barrel-Aged Program has been brewed and bottled at our Hobart brewery. Light earthy and spicy flavours highlighted by the characteristics imparted by the barrels. Available in 750ml bottles, ABV 7%.

India Pale Lager "TIPL"

Our Tas India Pale Lager is a crisp, hoppy and balanced lager. Keg only, ABV 6%, IBU 60.

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Hobart Brewing Company

The Red Shed, 16 Evans Street, Hobart TAS 7000

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