3-Hour Bar Hopping in Balmain with Beer Tasting

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Experience Details
What You’ll Experience
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3 hours
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Number of Guests
1 - 10 guests
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English
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Dive into Balmain's vibrant bar scene with this 3-hour tour, featuring tastings at each stop. Uncover gripping tales of convicts, gangsters, and history, all while enjoying your drink.

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For each guest that attends this experience, byFood will donate
10 meals

Experience Details

Enjoy a beer or wine at each pub that you visit

Discover the fascinating history of balmain and all its character and dark stories

Learn about the gangsters, convicts and hard times of Aus back in the day whilst enjoying a nice drop

What You Get

3 hours walking Tour
Choice of a craft beer, wine or soft drink (285ml or 10oz) at each of the 4 pubs
Local Guide
Additional food and drinks

Good To Know

  • Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
  • Public transportation options are available nearby
  • Not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels
  • Not recommended for pregnant travelers

What You’ll Experience

Balmain Market (Pass By)

If you ask a Sydneysider about Balmain, they think of 3 things: the Balmain Tigers footy team, Olympic swimming champion Dawn Fraser and pubs. Lots of pubs. In fact, Balmain has the highest pub-to-person ratio in Australia. This 3-hour walking tour of this peninsula on Sydney Harbour covers Balmain's sordid history of escaped convicts,dodgy gangsters and corrupt politicians. In between weaving the backstreets, you'll stop for a drink of craft beer, wine or cider in 4 of the area's most iconic and oldest pubs. You can enjoy a choice of craft beer or wine in each pub that you visit! Tour highlights include: Balmain's Oldest Pub The Balmain Watch House, and stories of Balmain gangsters The Balmain Tigers' 'Team of the Penitentiary' Duelling colonists The murderous confectioner The hidden treasure of Australia's most audacious robbery- and many more tales of murder, vice and intrigue Loc

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Meeting Point

East Village Hotel Balmain, Darling Street, Inner West Council New South Wales, Australia, AU, 2041

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End Point

This experience ends at the meeting point.

Cancellation Policy

Cancel your booking at least 24 hours before the experience start time to receive a full refund minus a 3.2% transaction fee.

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Please note that the time is in Eastern Australia Time.
Free cancellation (24 hours notice)
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