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South Bank's cultural precinct houses GOMA, Queensland Museum, and the State Library of Queensland, while heritage sites and independent galleries extend across the city.

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Kitty Hawk Distillery

This Queensland distillery crafts handcrafted boutique spirits with a perfect 5-star Google rating. Their online store offers locally made spirits that showcase the quality and craftsmanship of Australian distilling.

Captain Moreton's Rum School

At 109 Edward St, the Rum School caps sessions at 14 and works through the Agricole-versus-Industriel question before guests start tasting from 36 spices, syrups and tinctures to build a 700ml spiced rum to take home. Gin School runs on the same block, with copper stills and a library of 180 botanicals — 40 of them Australian native. Classes run Thursday to Sunday.

Lucha Brewing Co

A craft brewery tucked inside a light-industrial unit on Seventeen Mile Rocks Road — look for the 500 sign. Open Thursday to Sunday, with hours loose enough to invite lingering. The western suburbs don't get enough of this.

Flat Lizard Brewing

A brewery in Stafford, QLD that maintains an excellent reputation with customers, earning a 4.9/5 Google rating. They maintain an active social media presence to connect with the local brewing community.

Happy Valley Brewing Company

Former crane operator Cheyne opened this Stafford industrial-strip taproom in 2020, mid-pandemic, furnishing it with chairs salvaged from a closing Outback Jacks. Nineteen rotating taps keep the lineup unpredictable — a giant timber grasshopper, gifted by a regular, hangs from the rafters. Thursday trivia, Sunday live music, and a kitchen running Wednesday through Sunday round it out.

A West End distillery with a genuinely clever hook: eucalyptus leaves reclaimed from koala feed at Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary, redistilled as a gin botanical. The Lone Pine Eucalyptus Gin sits alongside a Bitter Orange Aperitif, Jacaranda Gin and seasonal releases. Blending masterclasses let visitors compose their own spirits. Five per cent of Lone Pine gin sales goes to wildlife conservation.

27 South Brewing

Coorparoo's own stainless-equipped taproom, open Thursday through Sunday from a unit on Milsom Street. Sundays run best: bring vinyl for Schooners & Spins and the Lush Buns food truck parks out front from 4pm. The Double Daisy is the current pour worth seeking.

Hiker Brewing Co.

Salisbury is where Hiker Brewing Co started, and the large-format taproom still carries that origin energy. Beers are grouped by intensity — Easy Drinking, Stepping Up, Adventurous — and a four-pour tasting paddle is the sensible way in. The range skews varied enough to cover old favourites and stranger styles. A second taproom opened in East Brisbane in late 2024.

Crafty Monk Brewing Pty Ltd

A local microbrewery, restaurant and bar in Tingalpa featuring 14 taps of handcrafted beers, woodfired pizza, and specialty cocktails. From hoppy IPAs to smooth stouts, they offer brewery tours, tastings, and live events in a welcoming taproom atmosphere that captures the heartbeat of the neighbourhood.

Independent Yeerongpilly brewery focused on sustainable craft beer production. Helios features rotating taps, seasonal releases and hosts regular events including trivia nights and comedy shows.

E.B. by Hiker Brewing Co.

Hiker Brewing Co.'s inner-city offshoot sits a few minutes from the Gabba, pairing the Salisbury brewery's fresh pours with bold Latin American food from its in-house kitchen, Caminante. Slightly off the main drag, it's a neighbourhood taproom that earns the detour — cold beer, tacos, and no particular hurry to leave.

Hoppers Brewing Co

A local brewery in Albion offering craft beers in a relaxed setting, featuring weekly trivia nights every Thursday from 7pm. The venue provides event space bookings for birthdays and special occasions with a personalized touch.

All Inn Brewing Co

Banyo brewery producing unfiltered, unpasteurised, additive-free ales alongside a rotating seasonal lineup — Japanese Lager, XPA, Milk Stout. The C.O.L.D Project range (lager and pale ale from $16 a four-pack) exists explicitly to keep craft beer affordable. Food trucks and live music fill the taproom floor on weekends.

Bavay Distillery

On Colmslie Road in Morningside, Bavay distils small-batch gins, rums and vodkas with a historical bent — the 1842 Shiraz Gin is barrel-aged with rich fruits, spice and oak; the Bosun's Blend rum runs bergamot, toffee and galangal. The cellar door opens Friday through Sunday for tastings and cocktails, with blending and cocktail masterclasses running throughout the year.

Working Title Brew Co.

A repurposed Doggett Street warehouse in Newstead housing a brewpub that ranges further than most — foeder-aged bière de garde, wild barrel-fermented sparkling mead, passionfruit pilsner. The food menu is built to drink beer against, not as an afterthought. The rotating tap list rewards repeat visits; the Fifth Element series suggests a brewery that hasn't settled on what it is yet, in the best way.

Nosferatu Distillery Bar + Cafe

Rory Smith started in film before pivoting, in 2018, to something more permanent: gin. His Bowen Hills distillery produces a small, odd range — Dead Dry, Blood Orange, Pavlova, a sticky fig number called Nocturro — each reverse-engineered with a specific food course in mind. The resulting "Ginner Party" framework, from ceviche aperitif through to rye whiskey old fashioned, is either inspired or faintly absurd. Possibly both.

Ballistic Beer Co

Salisbury-based brewery crafting big-flavour beers across a diverse range including pale ales, IPAs, lagers, stouts and experimental sours through their wild beer Bunker series. The taproom offers Thursday to Sunday sessions with a rotating selection of their core and limited release brews.

Brisbane-based brewery crafting a diverse range of beers including pale ales, IPAs, sours, lagers and ginger beer, alongside limited edition releases. Features an onsite taproom and offers an online shop for direct purchasing.

Brisbane Gin School & Distillery

Located in Brisbane's CBD, this hands-on distillery offers gin and rum making classes where guests distill their own spirits using copper stills and choose from 180 botanicals. Classes run Thursday to Sunday and include cocktail sessions, tastings, and take-home bottles of custom creations.

Easy Times Brewing Co

Independently owned brewery and sports bar located in Gabba Lane opposite the Gabba stadium. Easy Times produces award-winning Australian craft beers available for purchase online, on-tap, and takeaway, plus functions and events.

Independent Brisbane brewery in Wilston crafting all-Australian beers including Mid Lager, Rice Lager, Pale Ale, IPA, and ciders. Family-owned venue with food and functions available.

Sea Legs Brewing Co

Under the Story Bridge on Main Street, Sea Legs runs a 15-hectolitre brewhouse with 15,000 litres of fermenting capacity — enough to keep a solid core range (Hazy Pale, Pilsner, West Coast IPA, Cerveza) flowing while the brewers take regular swings at limited releases. The Red Planet Red IPA and a Pineapple Jalapeño sour suggest they're genuinely experimenting, not just rotating seasonals for show.

An old agriculture store—concrete floors unearthed, timber salvaged, industrial fittings left exposed—now houses Fortitude Valley's first independent craft brewery. The BrewBar looks directly onto a 2,500-litre, steam-heated brewhouse turning out core, batch and seasonal beers. Nine taps, a cider line and a full kitchen round it out.

Caxton Street Brewing Company

Located in Petrie Terrace, this brewery focuses on crafting sessionable, easy-drinking beers including their signature Caxton Street Lager, Pale Ale, and XPA. They offer a lively atmosphere with regular entertainment including trivia, comedy nights, music bingo, and sports on big screens, plus function spaces for private events.

Semi-Pro Brewing

Based in East Brisbane, this brewery creates unique craft beers and serves fresh, homemade pizzas in a family-friendly, community-focused space designed to bring people together.

Located in Brisbane CBD, this hands-on distillery offers immersive gin and rum making classes where visitors craft their own spirits using over 180 botanicals. The experience includes expert guidance on copper stills, cocktail sessions with monthly recipes, and gourmet platters, with classes running Thursday to Sunday.

Brisbane Brewing Co. West End

This lively West End brewery combines on-site brewing with a vibrant taproom where guests can watch the brewing process while sipping bold beers like Walker IPA or Raspberry Sour. The venue features a sun-drenched alfresco area and serves share plates, burgers, and beer-matched specials alongside their freshly brewed craft beers.

Future Magic Brewing Co.

Five years in the making, this East Brisbane brewery is built around a simple idea: beer as a reason to talk to your neighbours. No screens. Handmade pizzas. Room for kids. The beer spans newcomer-friendly to serious craft, and the room is designed to keep people at the table longer than they planned.

Little Miss Sunshine Bistro Brewery

Graffiti murals, neon signs and industrial furniture set the scene at this Brisbane City brewery bistro, where small-batch house beers anchor a menu built around Queensland producers. The outside area pulls in the city's working crowd; the interior keeps them there. Rough edges, warm room.

Slipstream Brewing Company

Award-winning craft brewery in Yeerongpilly specializing in traditional and contemporary beer styles from around the world, including their popular Sun Chaser Cali IPA. Features a bar and kitchen serving modern Australian cuisine with fresh, seasonal ingredients in a venue perfect for gatherings and special events.

Green Beacon Brewing

Brisbane's landmark craft brewery in a heritage warehouse, producing flagship Windjammer IPA and adventurous seasonal beers.

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Brisbane Brewing Co. Woolloongabba

Located in a charming 1863 heritage building, this craft brewery offers seasonal brews, cocktails, and pub classics in a stylish space featuring lush greenery and copper accents. The venue combines great beer with sports viewing and delicious food, plus a twinkling outdoor area perfect for any occasion.

Felons Barrel Hall

This experimental Brisbane brewery masterfully blends barrel-aged beers with live music and vibrant Thai-inspired dishes designed for sharing. Housing over 20,000L of beer in red wine, chardonnay and whisky barrels, they condition their brews with live music for up to 32 months, creating a unique space that celebrates craft beer, art and bold flavors.

Catchment Brewing Co

West End Brisbane brewery producing smooth, balanced craft beers that have become a neighbourhood institution. Catchment Brewing Co. takes its name from the local catchment area and crafts approachable lagers, pale ales and seasonal releases with a taproom that has become a beloved gathering spot in the inner south.

The Catchment Brewing Co

A local brewery in West End offering craft beer in a relaxed setting. With a solid 4.1/5 Google rating, this brewing company serves the vibrant Brisbane community with quality brews and a welcoming atmosphere.

Revel Brewing Co

Morningside brewery producing sessionable beers and limited edition brews, locally made at Rivermakers since 2020 in a historic Queensland factory building. Known for clean lagers and tropical fruit-forward ales.

Revel Brewing Co Rivermakers

Revel has been brewing at Morningside's old Commonwealth Acetate of Lime Factory — Queensland Heritage-listed, built between 1917 and 1920 — since 2020. The core range leans sessionable: a clean lager, the tropical Pacific Haze at 4.2%, and KOME Japanese Lager. Good building, straightforward beer, no pretension.

Felons Brewing Co

Located at Howard Smith Wharves under the Story Bridge, this brewery crafts refreshing, no-fuss beers right on the banks of the Brisbane River. Known for their harmoniously balanced brews including Crisp Lager, Australian Pale Ale, and specialty collaborations, they focus on creating beers best served ice cold with mates.

Valley Hops Brewing

Rooftop brewery above Cloudland, pouring independent beer for a neighbourhood that's earned its complications — the Fortitude Valley of rugby league premierships, dancin' cops and Dimitri's Restaurant. The beer is the pitch; the setting, looking down over the Valley's hum, does the rest.

The Charming Squire

This vibrant bar, restaurant and microbrewery in bustling South Bank honors the legacy of Australia's first brewer, James Squire. They offer the full Squire's core range plus seasonal in-house brews alongside their steakhouse restaurant specializing in premium cuts and paddock-to-plate dining.

Yatala Drive-In Theatre

South East Queensland's last open-air drive-in, opened 27 October 1974 by Peter Sourris and now run by his grandsons Stephen and Peter — third-generation family stewardship across three screens, the largest 33.5 metres wide. A 1950s diner with life-size Elvis and Marilyn statues serves between sessions. First-run films, retro screenings, the Real Steal and Chrome car show, and Boot Bargains markets the third Sunday of each month. Stapylton, between Brisbane and the Gold Coast.

Maritime Museum Tasmania

Argyle Street's Carnegie Gallery holds the permanent sweep of Tasmania's seafaring story — wrecks, weather, working boats. The travelling exhibition *Prevailing Gales* (Sue Pedley, through May 2026) adds an artist's read to the archive. Across town in Battery Point, the recently reopened Semaphore Cottage explains how Hobart once communicated with ships before the telegram arrived.

Museum of Lands, Mapping and Surveying

The source material confirms little beyond what the existing description already holds — historic maps, surveying instruments, and 160 years of Queensland cartography. That's enough. Maps drawn before roads existed. Instruments used to measure a colony into existence. This small government museum holds 160 years of Queensland surveying history — theodolites, field records, hand-drafted cadastral charts — the kind of primary material that shows exactly how a vast, largely unmapped territory was divided, named and claimed.

Queensland Museum

South Brisbane's state museum spans geological deep time to recent decades, with collections covering palaeontology, biology, and Queensland's cultural history. The Kurilpa building holds the flagship permanent galleries; satellite sites in Ipswich (rail history), Toowoomba (the National Carriage Collection, more than 50 horse-drawn vehicles), and Townsville (Great Barrier Reef and tropical natural history) extend the network across the state.

Gallery of Modern Art

GOMA is Australia's largest gallery of modern and contemporary art, presenting major international exhibitions and a strong collection of contemporary Australian, Asian and Pacific art.

Institute of Modern Art

Founded in 1975, the IMA occupies the ground floor of the Judith Wright Arts Centre on Brunswick Street — fifty years of showing challenging work, always free. Past exhibitions have included Ross Manning's kinetic sound installations and Marianna Simnett's nine-channel video works. It remains the oldest independent public gallery in Australia, and one of the few still running on curiosity rather than commerce.

Brisbane's oldest surviving home sits on the headland the Turrbal and Jagera peoples called Garranbinbilla — where Breakfast Creek meets the Brisbane River. Built in 1846 for Scottish squatter Patrick Leslie, the two-storey house was reportedly overseen by pioneer architect Andrew Petrie. Now a house museum, it's worth visiting less for the Victorian furnishings than for how legibly it holds the collision of colonial ambition and dispossession.

Botanical Garden

Brisbane City Botanic Gardens

Brisbane's oldest park occupies 20 hectares along the river in the CBD, with sub-tropical plantings, heritage figs, and a waterfront walkway — a green sanctuary at the heart of the city.

Queensland Police Museum

The Queensland Police Museum at Police Headquarters traces the history of policing in Queensland from 1864, featuring original uniforms, equipment and case files that tell stories of law enforcement across a century and a half.

State Library of Queensland

Founded in 1896, Queensland's state library holds the documentary and cultural record of an entire state — genealogy, history, public archives — freely accessible to anyone. The South Bank building is serious architecture for serious research, connected to more than 320 public libraries and Indigenous Knowledge Centres statewide. Come with a question worth answering.

Museum of Brisbane

The Museum of Brisbane occupies historic Brisbane City Hall and celebrates the people, places and stories that make Brisbane unique, with exhibitions spanning the city's cultural, social and natural history.

Commissariat Store Museum

Built by convict labour in 1829, the Commissariat Store is one of Queensland's most significant heritage buildings. Now a museum, it preserves the story of transportation, forced labour and the convict era in colonial Queensland.

Old Government House Queensland

Built in 1862 as the official residence of Queensland's governors, Old Government House on the QUT campus is the finest colonial building in Brisbane. Beautifully restored, it now houses the William Robinson Gallery and functions as a significant heritage attraction.

Phoenix Sculpture Garden, Graham Radcliffe

A serene haven where nature and art converge, showcasing an extensive collection of world-class marble, onyx, and bronze sculptures hand-crafted by Graham Radcliffe. Established in 1987, this intimate garden offers visitors a tangible experience of peace through inspired sculptural works created from high-quality materials sourced globally.

QUT Art Museum is a long-established gallery in Brisbane, QLD. The gallery's collection and exhibitions explore contemporary art, fine art. Core activities include exhibition, education. The venue serves as a community hub. Visitors can enjoy guided tours, accessible. Nearby towns include Brisbane CBD, South Bank, Fortitude Valley. Admission is free.

Queensland Maritime Museum

The Queensland Maritime Museum on the southern bank of the Brisbane River is home to HMAS Diamantina, the world's last surviving World War II River-class frigate and one of only two ships globally to have hosted surrender ceremonies. Visitors can explore the ship's engine room and crew quarters, alongside exhibits including a 1925 steam tug, a 1907 pearling lugger, Jessica Watson's record-breaking yacht, and extensive collections of ship models and maritime artefacts.

Army Museum South Queensland

The Army Museum South Queensland at Victoria Barracks in Brisbane presents the military history of Queensland through uniforms, weapons, medals, photographs and personal stories of service. Part of the Australian Army Museums Network, the museum covers Queensland's military involvement from colonial frontier conflicts through both World Wars to modern peacekeeping operations.

UQ Art Museum at the University of Queensland's St Lucia campus holds the second largest public art collection in Queensland, with over 4,400 works spanning the colonial period to the present. The museum presents a dynamic program of predominantly contemporary exhibitions designed to intersect with the university's academic disciplines, and is developing a unique National Collection of Artists' Self Portraits.

Army Museum of South Queensland

Army Museum of South Queensland is a nationally significant museum in Brisbane, QLD. The museum explores themes of military, social history. Core activities include exhibition, education. The venue is housed in a historic building. Visitors can enjoy guided tours, accessible. Nearby towns include Brisbane CBD, South Brisbane, Fortitude Valley.

Griffith University Art Museum

The Griffith University Art Museum holds a significant collection of Australian works with a particular focus on contemporary printmaking, photography, and works by Queensland and Pacific artists.

Botanical Garden

Mount Coot-tha Botanic Gardens

Spread across 52 hectares at the foot of Mount Coot-tha, Brisbane's main botanic garden features a tropical dome, Japanese garden, planetarium, and the largest sub-tropical botanic collection in Australia.

Queensland Art Gallery

Opened in 1895, Queensland Art Gallery holds the state's principal fine art collection with strengths in Australian, Indigenous, Asian, and Pacific art in a grand Brutalist building on the riverbank.

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