Original Pub & Brewery Tours of Charleston

My boyfriend and I went on a tour with guides Ben and Jennifer (Jennifer was shadowing that night). They were so much fun and we learned so much! Our one regret is that we went on this tour on the last night instead of our first. Ben was so passionate about the city and it’s history… Thank you for a great last night in Charleston!

Sugah bear was awesome! Fun, entertaining and tolerant of our debauchery. We went on a tour for a bachelorette party and it was one of the best decisions of the weekend!!! Definitely recommend for a weekend trip or vacation for entertaining stories and a good time!

CAPT Tim was an excellent tour guide. Very knowledgable and easy to understand. Learned a great deal about Charleston, and about other places to visit. Give it a go… learn something.

My girlfriend and I went on this tour on a Saturday at 4pm. We met at Molly Darcy’s. Our tour guide was Daniel, the owner of the company. We stopped at four bars in total with some good history at each bar and in between. We had twelve people on the tour and by the end of the night a few of us even stayed after to have another drink at the end of the tour. A great experience and highly recommended!
The bars visited on our tour were:
Molly Darcy’s
The Griffon
The Blind Tiger
Tommy Condon’s

An absolute joy! Our guide Brian exceeded my expectations 2 fold! Great experience! Brian’s historical knowledge of Charleston is unparalleled! I would highly recommend this tour! Lots of fun!!!

We went on a Saturday, 4:00 p.m. tour with Brian and had a GREAT time! He was full of energy and had a great mix of history and fun. We ended up spending a much longer time on the tour with him and hit several bars that were not on the list, which was a great unexpected bonus. What a great way to get to know the city and meet new friends! Thanks Brian for a wonderful time!

We’d just done a weeklong road trip and my bf surprised me with this tour. I didn’t know what to expect– we were exhausted and rushing to get there on a 6 hour drive, had just spent the last few days in tourist-​ridden Orlando, were sick of drinking, and tired of the humid south. Well, thankfully, this tour completely exceeded expectations. There were delicious appetizers at each spot, some awesome local brews and cocktails (I recommend the white Thai and flytail), and plenty of charming local establishments and historical points of interest. I can honestly say that Brian made the entire tour– he was incredibly knowledgable about the city and it was obvious that he had a real passion for Charlestown and history. He was also personable and really connected with everyone in our small group. Because we were only a group of four, he catered the tour to our interests and stopped at bars and places that we’d like most. He went above and beyond when the other pair left early; he stuck around with us and walked us back to our hotel bar so that we could share another drink like old friends. There’s nothing like the mix of booze, new friends, and a fascinating history of a beautiful town to make for a fantastic night. Thanks again, Brian!

Booked this tour with my gf as part of a week long road trip through the south. We weren’t sure what to expect from a 7pm Wednesday night pub tour, but we’re glad we joined!
Our guide, Brian, took our group of 4 to several local bars in the area that had each had their own unique ambiance. My gf and I ended up splitting beer flights at a few of the spots so we could try many different local beers. My favorite beer from the night was the White Thai. The appetizers were delicious as well. We did not eat dinner beforehand, but the amount of food served through the tour was enough to keep us filled.
Brian was very knowledgeable about the city as well. It was great to learn about the history of Charleston in between drinks and appetizers. He made us feel very welcome, and even walked us back near our hotel at the end of the tour.
I definitely recommend this tour for people visiting Charleston.

A fun way to experience Charleston history and bar culture. Tour guides are knowledgeable and friendly and willing to make recommendations about other great spots to check out around town. This is a great tour for locals and visitors alike.

My husband and I have done this tour twice – once for ourselves and again when we had out of town visitors. It’s a great way to check out some off the beaten path bars in Charleston and see the city. Both times, our guides were fun and informative (as you’re walking, they tell you a bit about the history of Charleston and different buildings, as well as the history behind some of the bars you visit) and were great «hosts». The guides also are great at giving suggestions for other bars to visit or places to get some dinner to soak up all that alcohol you just consumed. My husband and I have been back a few times to The Blind Tiger and Craftsmen, and I don’t know if we would have found them on our own. I wouldn’t hesitate to take future visitors on this tour.

Great time on out pub your, we took the 4pm on Saturday with Brian. We had as mall group so brian was able to cater the tour to the time we were looking for. He told us a lot about charleston history, a lot more than many other types of yours we have taken. He ended up spending so much extra time with us so that we got to see the sunset, many of the famous historical spots and a lot of non pub places that we would never have stumbled upon on ourselves. He really went above and beyond, I would recommend this tour to anyone who is visiting or new to the city

Saw the tour online and wanted to try it out. There was 7 of us on this tour with Daniel, the owner. Which was a good size group because we all could hear him when he spoke about the history. We went to 5 pubs and all were nice except the last one Big Johns. It was within mins we were being solicited to get on the bar topless. No thanks! Daniel told us a few «ghost» stories and a lot about the history of Charleston. He’s very proud to be a local, 11^th generation and he was super friendly.

We booked a group tour for our Reunion group with Brian and had a great evening. While we could have navigated different pubs on our own, it was much more entertaining to have a guide and meet other participants. Brian was well versed on the history of Charleston, super friendly and extremely patient with us… a very chatty group! He customized our tour and gave us options, while also extending our tour! We made new friends, learned some history, and visited a variety of great sites & pubs. Thanks Brian… you were awesome! He was such a Southern gentleman that he walked us all back to the main market to ensure we wouldn’t get lost.

Our tour guide was Daniel. He is the owner of the company. He did a great job. Our group consisted of 2 couples and a bachelor group of 6. Every bar we went to had tables waiting for us. We really enjoyed hearing about the history of the town. We never felt rushed in this group. It was fun getting to know the other people in our group. I highly recommend this for people who are into making new friends. Perfect for us since we were a couple by ourselves. After Daniel left, we continued our night with our new group of friends! We had a great time!

If you like to drink, make friends, and learn about history, I definitely recommend this tour! For only $ 30 you get to go to around 4 different bars and get decent appetizers at 3 of them. You have to buy your own drinks but that wasn’t really a big deal (the waitresses were expecting a big group and easily split up tabs for each party). The tour is basically a group of 15 or so people, sitting together at a bar, getting drinks and apps, and listening to the tour guide give a history lesson. As the tour continues, everyone seemed to get a little more friendly and there was time at each bar to break off into conversation with other people on the tour or ask the guide specific questions. If you have a great group like ours, by the end of the night you will all be friends and continue to another bar after the tour is over for a final drink!
If you like to bar hop when you visit a new city, this is a great way to do it. My only con is I would have liked a little bit more history — but the socializing was a ton of fun.
The reviews on here are pretty mixed because I think you really have to know what you’re getting into and be the kind of person who likes drinking and talking to strangers, on top of learning history. If you prefer just history, I would recommend a carriage tour instead.

Did the tour for my bachelorette and had Daniel for our tour guide. This one of my favorite things from the weekend! Daniel took us to off the path bars, had a ton of great stories and had snacks for us at a couple of the stops. Thumbs up & highly recommend for anyone who wants to see different parts of Charleston in a laid back, fun way!

Unilocal you need a negative star option! There was one other review on here that nailed this tour to a T and if I could copy and paste it I would, but refer to Alison C review because I felt almost identical.
While the tour is advertised as small in size, 17 people is not exactly what I would call that. The owner gave our tour, which I would think should be the best tour guide they have. I pray that is not the case. This is NOT A TOUR, it is a disorderly event of a guy taking you on a walk and consuming a ton of your time with nothing. I can’t believe they even sell it as a tour. The 30 bucks per person we spent involved this guy walking us around, sometimes so fast it left others at the last light, and just completely disorganized.
The first bar we went in, stood for 10 minutes with no direction and then he came over and told us we were going to a different bar. The first story and beer actually came about 50 minutes into the tour. The stories were about as miserable as the tour and I was shocked when this guy told us he had been doing this for 4.5 years. Us and another couple ditched the tour about 2.5 hours into the tour and he still had 2 bars to go.
It was truly disappointing because I did one of these in DC and it was a blast, best tour I had done.

We did the bus tour of breweries. We were basically just driven to the breweries and bought a flight of beer at each one (around $ 5 per flight). The only tour we got was the standard tour at one brewery that we would have gotten if we had just walked off the street. There were no snacks at the breweries. At the end of the tour he ordered a small pizza and threw in $ 10 when he had to leave early which barely covered his beer.

First, the good things: Daniel was very friendly and clearly knows the city well; he’s a Charleston native and has been a tour guide since 2004. He started the Pub Tour company in 2009 or so, and when I heard that, I expected very good things. There were 5 stops on the tour, and for the most part they were indicative of Charleston pub/​drinking culture: a tourist-​friendly bar, a bar with some Prohibition history, a classic pub, an upscale gastronomic joint, and a terrific dive.
But, the not so good things overwhelmed the good. Namely: There was very little real TOUR given. The guide spoke to us about some history at our first stop, but then let us linger in our own groups, milling about for nearly 20 minutes at every subsequent stop without gathering us together and sharing more knowledge. I had hoped to learn a lot more about the history of Charleston than I did, and he actually left us after the 4^th bar and had us continue on our own, guide-​less, to the 5^th because he said he had to get home to his family and it was getting late. This seemed very unprofessional, considering we paid $ 30/​person for the tour, which didn’t even include drinks.
Also, don’t believe there will be appetizers at every stop. We had a great app at the 1^st stop, and then a very small app at the 4^th, and that was it. No one in my group ate dinner because we had anticipated food, and as a result we were all starving (and drunk) by the end.
He means well, the concept is a great one, and I love a good bar crawl. But I was looking for a little more intellectual heft to this, and it didn’t deliver. Instead, I just spent a lot of time doing what I do most Saturday nights — but I paid $ 30 upfront to do it.

As regular visitors to Charleston, we found this tour online and decided to try it. There were three of us in a total tour of 11 led by a very charismatic guide who clearly had a passion for the city. We learned history about Charleston and the four different pubs that we visited (plus an add-​on «dive bar»). The appetizers were great and the drink recommendations were spot on. What a fun way to see the city and relax with friends! The best part of the tour was meeting everyone in our group. Maybe we just got lucky, but our group was awesome!