The tour formats
Orlando's brewery scene gets covered here the way fans actually drink it: in runs. The lead film is a craft beer and brewery tour of the best brewpubs near the theme parks, taproom by taproom with what's pouring at each stop. The marathon entry attempts five new Orlando breweries in five hours — stops 189 through 193 in the hosts' long-running review series, each rated as they go.
The local series
Two episodes of a local-first series called 'Where Are You Drinking?' tour the taprooms residents actually visit — episode 1 lays out the city's worth-the-trip breweries, episode 3 returns with a second set and a push to drink something fresh and local. A 2019 snapshot pairs downtown brewery tours with spectacular Spanish food (a seafood rice loaded with shrimp, calamari, mussels and lobster tail) — the scene was younger then, and the film is a useful before picture. Visit Orlando's own 'Full Pour' tour from 2016 is the archival version.
Two honest footnotes
One top-five list is explicitly breweries on the outskirts of Orlando — starting with Blue Springs in Orange City — for drinkers willing to range beyond the city line; the video says so and so do we. And the single-spot food film: Runabout Brewery in Orlando, where the argument is that the kitchen — oysters, steak, desserts — carries as much weight as the taps. A brewpub where the food is the real deal is worth knowing about in a beer guide.
Sources: the eight videos on this page — brewery tours, a five-in-five-hours crawl, a local taproom series, and single-spot visits — summarized from their entries in our catalog.
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