Cretan Brewery Tour: Fresh Beer and Scenic Views

Experience the best of Greek beer culture on a brewery tour in Crete. Taste unpasteurised beers, explore the production area, and enjoy fresh dishes in our restaurant.

Duration: 1 hour
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • CRETAN BREWERY SA - Our staff will guide you through the brewing process and show you our state-of-the-art environmental-friendly and operationally clean brewery, in a special created space, where you can experience how and where our hand-crafted beer is created. On brewing days, a hoppy fragrance fills the rooms
  • and you are right in the midst of the process of hand-crafted beer production. You will learn about the success story of the first beer of Chania and why Charma is so preferred among other beers. A beer tasting of 4 samples will follow in our open-space terrace with view over olive groves and orange trees, accompanied with traditional bread sticks.
What's Included
  • 5 samples of fresh made beer, 100ml each
  • bread sticks
  • option with lunch includes 300ml beer of your choice
  • dish with meat or vegetarian
What's Not Included
  • Private transportation
  • Brewery Tour due to current construction works
Additional Information

Our brewery is one of the few organized open breweries in Greece. Visitors can view the production area at any time, while our restaurant offers a wide variety of fresh dishes (including vegetarian options), prepared in an open-air kitchen. Our balcony is surrounded by the scents of oranges and herbs, providing a relaxing atmosphere in the heart of the Cretan natural landscape. Check out reviews from other visitors and consider combining your visit with a hike or bike tour through the picturesque surroundings, or stop by on your return from Balos, Elafonisi, and Paleochora. All our beers are fresh, meaning they are free from preservatives and unpasteurized.

Note: We apologize for any inconvenience caused by our facilities. We are in the final stages of an expansion project that began this winter.

  • Children under 17 years old can participate in the tour free of cost. Refreshments or food can be purchased extra on the spot.
Location
Cretan Brewery S.A.
Zounaki, Platanias, Chania
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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Svein
Sep 16, 2024
Brewery Visit - Recommend taking a taxi to this place. Brewing visits should be done without your own car. Large room with many seats. Nice service with good knowledge of all the samples we ordered. Before the tasting, we ordered lunch from their large selection of dishes. Delicious food with good beer as accessory. Good and interesting break from the beach life on the Chania coast. Highly recommended.
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Boddies2
Aug 10, 2024
Tasty beer and lunch - We booked the beer tasting and lunch experience on the brewery’s website. Nice, open tasting/dining room with plenty room of seating and views of the brewing rooms downstairs. There were no tours due to construction. We had five beers (blond, weiss, pale ale, dunkel, and sour (100ml each), plus a 300ml glass of our choice (we selected the blond since it was the most refreshing for the hot day). The server described each beer as it was delivered to us including the style, flavor profile and alcohol content. We were also served a delicious lunch plate including a generous portion of grilled chicken breast, sausage slices, potato cake and Greek yoghurt. There is also a gift shop selling inexpensive hats, mugs and T-shirts. Very worthwhile trip if you are staying in the area. FYI we took a taxi from Maleme for €18 each way - perfect of our party of four adults.
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Lovetravel467019
Jul 9, 2024
BEST BREWERY NEAR CHANIA, CRETE, GREECE - The food was great BUT THE BEERS WERE AMAZING. Two of my absolute favorite DUNKEL, PALE ALE. Servers were excellent. Too bad can not buy it in the stores yet.
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Wpdesousa-mauk
Oct 4, 2023
FASCINATING BREWERY TOUR in a TINY VILLAGE WORH VISITING - We greatly enjoy Xarma beer, so as we were staying nearby, decided to take the brewery tour. On arrival, there were very few people there except staff. After a while, around 11AM, others arrived and the tour guide, Antigone, started explaining about the ingredients in beer, showed everyone (and let them smell and taste) the ingredients and how each works to flavor beer. After this, she took everyone to the viewing area and explained the entire brewing process as well as the steps the Brewery takes to be sustainable and also protect the environment. It was really fascinating. Then we went to the covered patio for our five-beer flight of Xarma beers — Lager, Pale Ale, Dunkel, Weiss and another I cannot remember! Visitors can also purchase food, which we did, and it was fantastic ... we had meatballs with spicy cheese sauce, a pork steak, fried potatoes ... everything was delicious. Afterward, we were able to go to the store and purchased tee and polo shirts with the Xarma logo of the KriKri horns as a great memory! I would very highly recommend this tour for lovers of beer and, especially lovers of Xarma bee. For €8, it was a bargain and Antigone was really charming and informative!
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Desireev558
Oct 1, 2023
Smal brewery with lovely beers - Nice place! Nice people! Nice food also We find the brewery on the internet and at our holiday place (Platanias) we drink it.
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Mickvee
Sep 12, 2023
Charma brewery tour - €8 beer tasting tour A good couple of hours spent on the tour, tasting and chatting with friends. Only 6 people on our session and the guide was very knowledgeable, it was quite quick then down to the tasting. Again the guide discussed the four beers discribing the flavours, this was leisurely allowing us to relax on the sun while savouring the beers. Extremely reasonable for the money. I recommend the tour.
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Mzap92
Aug 27, 2023
Totally recommended! - The brewery is really small, but the staff is super kind. The brewery tour is not a proper tour as it is not possible to get inside where the beer is actually produced, but from outside you can see almost all the production steps that were really kindly illustrated and explained by our tour guide. All the six beer produced are available for the tasting, which is also really nice (we recommend to have a portions of wedges and tzatziki dip with it, they are simply too good!) and you can enjoy it sitting on a terrace in the middle of their avocado trees. It was a really nice experience.
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Ambassador382101
Aug 17, 2023
Wonderful experience - We got a warm welcome and a wonderful tour. It was very interesting. The food was delicious. So were all of the beers!!
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Northstar14586209241
Jul 31, 2023
Brilliant Beer - The tour was very informative and it was great to be able to try the four different and extremely good beers at the end. Charma was our favourite beer in Crete - so it was wonderful to see how it was made.
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377larsk
Aug 10, 2024
Beer tasting - A wonderful brewery with nice and friendly staff who told a lot about the beginning and what they had become today.
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