South Australian Brewing Company

South Australian Brewing Company produce West End beer and have done so for as long as I can remember. They have a large brewery on Port Road with that rich bitter smell of hops emanating from it from time to time indicating that all is well in the world of beer production. You can get a group together and go for a walking tour around the brewery if you so wish. It is quite an interesting process and even though I’ve done it a few times in my life each time I do enjoy myself and I always am a little enamoured with them for their community spirit. They keep a rather twee, but good for the kids, fantasy land beside the brewery in a park area that comes to life at Christmas, and looks a little odd for the rest of the year. They also maintain a charity spot on Port Road where you can fill your water bottle — all the money goes to charity, and you get great quality local water.
The walking tours are designed for groups of a minimum of 10 people on a pre-​booking basis; you get to see (and smell) the raw materials used for brewing, the fermentation cellars, the brew house, keg handling and the amazing canning and bottling process. If you are not a group of ten people you can give them a call and see about tagging along with another group.
One thing that you need to remember with kegs rolling about — the walking tour requires that you wear closed flat shoes, no thongs, no sandals, because of occupational Health and Safety.