Best Breweries in Sydney
Beer, you brew-tiful thing. It’s time to get brewery-hopping with this list of the best breweries in Sydney.
Our love for beer is stronger than ever. From Brookevale to Marickville and beyond, we’ve rounded up the best breweries in Sydney for a cheeky pint.
Two mates, Richard Adamson and Oscar McMahon, built an internationally recognised brand on a shared love of beer. The Newtown brewery is a revered community hangout with loud rock 'n' roll and high vibes. Book a one-hour $50 tour to see grain become glass.
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Modus Operandi won Champion Beer and Champion Small Brewery just months after opening in 2014, and has since become one of Australia's top independent breweries. Find its Mona Vale brewpub on Harkeith Street, open Wednesday to Sunday, pouring the core range alongside a full kitchen.
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Pines grew from a local favourite into a well-known Sydney brand, but it all began at the original Manly microbrewery, opposite Manly Wharf. Grab a pint of small-batch Keller Door beer, soak up classic Manly views and settle in, open seven days from 11am.
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Bucketty's is a must-visit for craft beer fans in Brookvale, the Northern Beaches' brewery hub. This award-winning local brewery is a fantastic starting point for a brewery-hopping adventure, with a wide range of beers, live music and a taproom open Wednesday to Sunday.
Akasha's Five Dock brewery and taproom is the Inner West's home for hop-forward, high-quality craft beer, now part of the Powder Monkey Group. Grab a pint in the beer garden, with food from Spencer St Kitchen. Open Friday to Sunday, with bookings available.
Sauce is all about experimental, flavoursome beers, from the tangy 'Peach Sauce' to the dark, chocolatey 'O Oh! Cascadia'. Pull up a stool in the expansive warehouse or head out to the tiered beer garden, with rotating food trucks. Open Wednesday to Sunday.
What began as a passion project between mates Trent Evans, Matt King and Glenn Wignall has grown into a brand Aussies love. Head to the industrial warehouse on Enmore Road, a Marrickville staple for over a decade, open Wednesday to Sunday with food from Friday.
Batch has graced Marrickville with inventive brews since opening in 2013, in an industrial fit-out of repurposed pallets, leather couches and milk crates. Expect wacky names like Elsie the Milk Stout and Pash the Magic Dragon. Open daily, with a food truck Wednesday to Sunday.
Nomad Brewing Co pairs European brewing know-how with native ingredients like finger lime, lemon myrtle and Tasmanian pepper berry. Its Freshie Salt and Pepper gose is brewed with seawater from Freshwater Beach. Head to the Brookvale cellar door for rotating taps, open Wednesday to Sunday.
Sydney's oldest pub brewery, The Lord Nelson Brewery Hotel, is known worldwide for its award-winning beers. Here, you can sip through six core brews, plus seasonal releases. Meanwhile, the food is just as iconic. Pair your beer with a classic beef pie, mash and gravy for a truly satisfying visit.
Tucked away inside the dynamic Cannery in Rosebery, Frenchies offers the perfect balance of French bistro and microbrewery. On the all-important beer front, you'll find a small core range (Draught, Pale Ale, Astrolabe, Laperouse) accompanied by an ever-changing seasonal offering.
A vegan taproom and brewery? Yulli's Brews proves it can be done, and done well. Head Brewer James Harvey crafts ales, lagers and stouts free of animal products, while the plant-based menu of Thai noodles, crispy cauliflower and eggplant sticks wins over meat-eaters too.
One Drop is Botany's first brewery, opening in 2019 and quickly building a name in Sydney's craft beer scene. It's famous for wild, fruit-packed sours like We Jammin', alongside Botany Bay Lager, in a spacious converted warehouse with a beer garden. Allow several hours.
