Planning a trip to Glasgow in the near future? Or just looking to learn more about your home city’s alcohol scene?
Either way, you’re in luck. The city is home to a variety of fascinating tours that can educate you on your favourite drinks and the area in general.
Interested to find out more? Read on as we take you through some of the best alcohol tours in Glasgow.
Tennent’s Brewery Tours
Tennent’s is Scotland’s most popular pale lager, and has a history going back centuries. Learn more about the famous drink by embarking on a tour at Tennent’s Wellpark Brewery, which has been brewing beer ever since the 1500s. The brewery is located a mile or so from the city centre.
Tours begin at £17 per person for an hour and a half, giving visitors the opportunity to get a closer look at Tennent’s unique brewing process, and what makes it such a popular lager.
Accessible tours are offered to those with mobility challenges, and private tours are priced at £300.
If you fancy having a Tennent’s lager and a bite to eat, you could go for the tour and meal offer, which starts at £47.
The Clydeside Distillery’s Whisky Tour
Located on the north bank of the famous River Clyde, the Clydeside Distillery tours offer an insight into the significance of whisky within Glasgow, and its industrial heritage.
Visitors are given the opportunity to find out about the distillery’s dockside story before their tour.
The standard Clydeside tour costs £19.50 for an hour, with a variety of premium and private tours also available.
Learning about the distillation process of single malt whisky is great, but would you like to create your own bottle? If so, the whisky creator tour (priced at £90 for an hour and a half) could be for you.
WEST Brewery Tours
Petra Wetzel is the founder of WEST. Originally hailing from Bavaria, she studied at the University of Glasgow in the 1990s after enjoying an earlier visit to the city.
She has lived there ever since and in that time created WEST, which has proved a huge success. WEST on the Green clinched ‘Scotland’s Pub of the Year’ title at the 2016 National Pub Bar Awards. To find out what makes WEST so special, take part in one of their excellent tours.
The original WEST brewery tour is priced at £15, lasts 45 minutes, and gives guests the chance to sample three different beers. The WEST experience offers the exact same, in addition to a pint and a three course meal, priced at £45.
Private tours for up to 20 guests are also available.
Glasgow’s West End Whisky Tour
Hosted by Once Upon a Whisky, this walking West End tour gives visitors the chance to taste and sample some premium whisky, while learning about the area.
Those who embark on the tour can enjoy four different single-malt Scotch whiskies at some of the finest whisky bars in the West End of Glasgow.
All of the bars have an interesting story, so the benefits of the tour don’t just extend to alcohol tasting!
The standard tour is priced at £65. However, non-drinkers can also enjoy this tour for a cheaper price of £31.80.
The independent bottles tour is offered for £100.
Glasgow Bike Tour with Craft Beer Tasting
This tour allows you to get a look at the town centre of Glasgow, Kelvingrove Park, Glasgow Cathedral, Glasgow Green, and much more.
Lasting four hours, the tour ends at Glasgow Necropolis, where part of The Batman (2022) was filmed. After a long bike ride, some deserved drinks can be enjoyed, with visitors getting the chance to cap off a fun day out by trying some of Glasgow’s trendiest beers.
The tour costs £65 for adults and £59 for students.
Conclusion
If you are wondering what to do in Glasgow during your stay, going on one of these fascinating alcohol tours allows you to sample alcohol while also learning more about its roots and what makes it tick.
Or you could be a local who wants to find a change of scenery and a new place to have a drink in Glasgow. Regardless, these tours can still educate you on aspects of the city’s history that you may not previously have heard of!
