Private Collingwood Brewery Tours & Blue Mountain Wine Tours

Hop on the Beer Bus for a custom beer tour with The Collingwood Brewery! With a strong emphasis on classic brewing traditions and classic styles of beer, The Collingwood Brewery has been providing locals and visitors alike exceptional, locally made beers reminiscent of evenings at an English pub. The Collingwood Brewery has never forgotten its roots: each year, the 1854 Anniversary Series celebrates the founding of the original Collingwood Brewery, established more than 150 years ago.

Beer Bus Guests Receive 15% Off All Merchandise at The Collingwood Brewery.

Side Launch Brewing Company was named after the old Collingwood practice of launching a newly built ship into the water sideways, rather than bow or stern first. Our friends at Side Launch Brewing Company produce great brews that are never filtered or pasteurized, leaving behind a flavour as unique as a its name. With The Beer Bus, you’ll get to experience a Side Launch, Collingwood style.

Beer Bus Guests Receive 15% Off All Merchandise at Side Launch Brewing Company.

Northwinds Brewhouse and Kitchen is a place that creates real food and beer. Our menu and beverage options are carefully designed to treat you and your belly very well. We have two locations and are locally owned and operated. Our menu offerings are made on site, using fresh and local ingredients. All Northwinds beer is produced on-site in small batches to ensure your beer is ultra-fresh.

Hop on the Beer Bus and head to the historic town of Creemore for a all-inclusive brewery tour of its namesake brewery. In 1987, Creemore opened up its doors, becoming an instant source of hope for Ontario craft beer drinkers by introducing something different than your usual brew. 30 years later, Creemore is still producing one of Ontario’s finest craft beers with water sourced from their own local spring and beer fired up in a classic copper kettle.

Beer Bus Guests Receive 15% Off All Merchandise at Creemore Springs Brewery.

Black Bellows Brewing are the new kids on the block. With a new location in the heart of Downtown Collingwood, Black Bellows Brewing is ready to amaze with its impressive lineup of new (and familiar) brews in a brew-pub environment that screams fun. Built in the ol' Dey's Garage building, the brewery is a welcome addition to this region's booming craft beverage scene.

Thornbury Village Cidery & Brewery has harnessed the magic of the locally grown apple and made a beautifully crisp, refreshing, and wonderfully light English-style cider right in the middle of Thornbury. Thornbury Village Cidery & Brewery presses its own apples, and cold filters the cider to maintain the taste and aroma of fresh apples. On the brewing side of things, Thornbury recently brewed the world’s best Czech-style pilsner, recognized by the World Beer Awards. No big deal.

Beer Bus Guests Receive 25% Off All Merchandise at Thornbury Village Cidery and Brewery.

It's not everyday that you can sip an in-house brewed craft beer while sitting in a restored CPR rail station, circa 1946. With beautiful, original features of this art deco building on display while you enjoy brew-master Morag's freshest brews, you'll feel like you're back in time, waiting for the train downways to Toronto. An incredible, vibrant and locally inspired menu will satisfy your soul, too!

Combined with the most cozy and wonderful people (who also grow a hearty garlic--try the powder!), Duntroon Cyder offers true Ontario cyder, made the old fashioned way. Sulphite-free, gluten-free and nut-free Duntroon Cyder is made using only proper Duntroon Parish and Ontario heritage hand-picked apples and patience.

The most beautiful views of the Beaver Valley are what make this old farm a gem to visit (apart from the incredible cider, that is). Small batch cider is made from select varieties of heritage apples grown in their own orchard or from neighbouring Georgian Bay apples growers. Their own 5 acres of apples represent those historically used in North America for making hard cider, giving you a true taste of local.

With a dedication to all things local, Georgian Hills Vineyards takes advantage of the region’s cool, microclimate to produce fantastic wines that are as unique as Georgian Bay. The team at Georgian Bay Vineyards firmly believes that local is best, and are eager to showcase their offerings to not only the community, but beyond as well. Georgian Hills Vineyards is also home to Ardiel Cider House, which uses heritage apples grown on the Ardiel family’s orchard to produce two distinct and delicious ciders: Ardiel Dry Cider and Big John Hop Cider.

Located on a picturesque hilltop near Ravenna, Ontario with stunning views of Georgian Bay and only 20 minutes from Collingwood and Thornbury, The Roost vineyard and winery is a fantastic place to experience cold-climate wines in a spectacular setting. Owned by a wife and husband team, The Roost is the family farm where everyone would get together—to roost.
 

The Roost is about bringing friends and family together in a beautiful and relaxing setting, allowing them to dream away an afternoon or evening – accompanied by a glass of wine of course!

Considered to be Grey County’s first vineyard, the Beer Bus is proud to offer wine tours of Coffin Ridge Boutique Winery. It opened its doors in 2001, and now boasts an impressive 25 acre vineyard, hand-planted and “lovingly tended from bud-break to lush maturity when they are, alas, ushered to their demise!”
 

With a spooky ambience, Coffin Ridge Boutique Winery really is a way to celebrate a grape’s journey of being squished to death and brought back to life as, say, their Back From The Dead Red or Resurrection Rόse.

Coffin Ridge Boutique Winery also makes a killer Forbidden Cider, and other seasonal ciders available only at the winery!

Spy Cider House and Distillery is on an unwavering quest to create a reputation for excellence, precision and intrigue. Passionate to the core, our ciders and spirits pay tribute to the Blue Mountains by insisting on a philosophy of excellence that can only be expressed through the local fruit. Survey our mature organic orchard from the deck while the copper still slowly makes history. Our creative food pairings will delight the palette and confound your expectations.
 

At Spy, our mission is anything but impossible: make the best apple-based ciders and spirits anywhere in the free world. Our modus operandi? Never Kompromat. It’s more difficult to work that way, but not impossible

Melissa and John over at AXED are not just proud business owners who run Thornbury's most amazing activity venue, they are also pretty sharp when it comes to throwing an axe! Stand firm, line up and keep your elbows straight as you and your team discover how a tool meant for splitting really does bring people together!

Local beers and ciders are available at the bar, so its easy to discover local at this charming spot!

Laurie and John manage their  74-acre farm at the base of the Blue Mountains in Nottawa, Ontario, just 2 minutes outside Collingwood. They proudly grow over 18 varieties, fed by the waters of the Pretty River. The terroir of Georgian Bay comes through in the unique flavours of their hops. Lemon vanilla in the Kent Golding, orange and fruit in the Willamette, and great alpha acids in the Wild Turkey. This is what makes truly Canadian beer!