Good News for Beer Drinkers ! Tours from Melbourne

Top Down Tours who operates Cabriolet Chevrolets has joined the Australia Card and offers a 10% discount on their Beer Tours to Yarra Valley.

On this tour you visit the Major Watering Holes in Yarra Valley and have the opportunity to discover the “divine drink” which was a gift from the Gods according to the ancient and not so ancient or as one bloke puts it; Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer.

Well, here is an opportunity to check out the Beers of Yarra Valley. You start this tour by travelling the winding roads of Warrandyte to Healesville where you visit Buckleys Brewery named after William Buckley, the famous escaped convict. The beers are traditionally brewed, non-filtered and full flavoured. This is Yarra Valleys First Traditional Brewery with Solar Heated Brew. There are 4 beers to choose from. This is where you will be taken through the brewery and shown the step by step production method of making Beer.

Next stop "Innocent Bystander Giant Steps" and the new brewery 'White Rabbit'. The guys there are creating some great beers and have been awarded for "Little Creatures", the 2007 Worlds Best Ale in The Australian International Beer Awards. There is also a personal selection of some of the worlds other great beers.

Next we travel the rolling hills across to Yarra Glen to visit Hargreaves Hill Brewery. This is a family owned micro-brewery which brews with rainwater. They make the ales the old fashioned way, no preservatives, no chemicals or sugars. They have 3 new beers and 2 guest taps.

This is also where we stop for lunch at the new Bar and Restaurant. The Chef is known for his delicious modern brasserie style menu.

After lunch we visit Coldstream Brewery which is a micro-brewery that has Rod Williams as a renowned brewer for over 25 years. His experience and expertise in establishing the brewery is marked by the unique beer and ales available. There are 4 beers available.
We travel back to Melbourne via Warrandyte.
ALL BEER TASTINGS AND LUNCH NEED TO BE PAID BY CUSTOMER.

Using The Australia Card you will enjoy a 10% discount on the tour price.

100 Greatest Australian Gourmet Experiences

“Deep in a little corner of the Derwent Valley surrounded by fertile and bucolic Tasmanian countryside lies the ultimate Australian gourmet experience. Revered restaurant critic Leo Schofield describes is as “one of the most seductive and sophisticated cooking schools in the country”.

This is the exciting introduction to # 1 Australian Gourmet Experience, The Agrarian Kitchen and you can find more details in the April/May issue of the “Australian Traveller” which is my favourite magazine and I strongly recommend that you make it yours as well! You can contact them here;

Back to The Agrarian Kitchen,it was founded by ex-Gourmet Traveller magazine food editor, Rodney Dunn. It is a self-sustaining cooking school housed in a charming 1887 school house with the kitchen overlooking the vegetable patch
Dunn hopes his Kitchen changes the way people think. “ I want people to leave here and think about where their food is coming from. I want them to realise that this is how good it can be”.

The Top 10 of the hundred experiences are;
001 The Agrarian Kitchen TAS
002 Victor Churchill NSW
003 Quay Restaurant NSW
004 Fish ’n’ Chips on the Beach NATIONAL
005 Holy Goat Cheese VIC
006 Daylesford Organics VIC
007 Tetsuya’s NSW
008 Vue de Monde VIC
009 Pyengana Dairy Company TAS
010 Sunnybrae Restaurant & Cooking School VIC

And there are another 90 waiting for you. It’s sensational reading if you are interested in food and a great source when planning your next gourmet holidays or a fish ‘n’ chips on the beach. You can find it all in the latest issue available from your newsagent or visit Australian Traveller's website by clicking here.

This is great reading and should not be missed. By the way, coming to Australia you should also consider The Australia Card which gives you a 10% discount on a variety of services in Australia. Check it out at: The Australia Card.