3 years on and not much changed. However changes coming. Likely to be closed down to make way for a…read morehuge new sports stadium complex. Maybe they can find a little spot for them but will not be the same. Try while you can!

We came here in August and had a great time. The amount of different bruises made by the Hobart…read morebrewing company were awesome. We stood outside beside a large fire and it was a great atmosphere. We didn't eat here but we had several beers and a love the variety. Great service, I'd come back again.

Arrived late afternoon virtually no one there. Large interior in part of Hobart with lots of…read morerestaurants and bars. It was open and welcoming with huge area at the back adjacent to brewing tanks. They have concrete ping pong table and large concrete benches to sit at. Food limited range. We had variations on burgers and they were good if not out of the box. Plenty of on-site beer options. As a visitor from the States this is the best local beer. Tried Porter which was ok but two others were just good IPA style beers without being over the top. I am sure this could be more crowded in the evening but settled for being open for food mid afternoon which seems a bit of a rarity in Tasmania and this area.

Love this place! Table tennis, fires, excellent beer and cider, fabulous chips and a very decadent…read morecheese steak burger! Friendly service too. After a very disappointing experience at a 'craft brew specialist' elsewhere in Hobart, I was delighted to find Shambles. Highly highly recommended!

What a dream. This is one of the oldest breweries in the city. They feature four types of beer. I…read moreordered the flight sampler. I also ordered the beef brisket. It had the best sauce thus far during my Australian trip. What makes this place magical is the garden. This is a heritage spot overlooking my Wellington. It's also adjacent to the rivulet walking trail. So a nice combination is walking from Central on the trail. And stop at the brewery at the end. There is also a. Bus, which runs between city center in the brewery.

Very informative history tour with knowledgeable guide…read more Good food and beer off cause!

Holy dooley. I had an amazing day out here making my very own gin thanks to Bespoke Tasmania…read more Bill's got a wonderful setup down here and touring the distillery and bond store feels like visiting a cool uncle's setup. It's definitely off the beaten track so a bit of a destination visit but if you want to see where McHenry's magic happens, this is where it's at! If you can come here as part of Tasmanian Whisky Tours or Bespoke Tasmania's gin workshop, I can't recommend the latter any more highly. A tour of the distillery, lunch flavours matched to G&Ts, AND distillation of gin botanicals that I picked out to make a special bespoke gin. So rad. I'M A GIN MAKER NOW. Plus I may have also bought some barrel-aged gin and some sloe gin (and I even got to stir some steeping sloe berries, eee!). Gin nerd dream day complete, McHenry Distillery is kind of like a visit to Dreamworld for me.

Two Metre Tall is an institution on its own, but they've really taken things to the next level with…read moreFarm Bar. Operating in the warmer seasons on Fridays (and some bonus Sundays), Farm Bar is what it says on the box: a bar at a farm. More importantly, the bar is at 2MT's farm, where they make their delicious ales and ciders, so by now you can probably guess what's in stock at the bar. Correct: you can get a middy or a pint of delicious real ale or cider, kick back, and relax. Food is BYO, DIY -- the only food for purchase is hulking great slabs of 2MT's beer-fed beef and sausages, and there's a BBQ on site for you to cook up immediately (or you can take your meaty treasure home to savour at a later date). So bring your own salads, burger buns, stuff to eat off, chips and dips... you can even bring your own meat, if you want. Just don't forget to bring your own noms out with you. 2MT's Farm Bar is just under an hour's drive from Hobart, just outside of New Norfolk, and if you book ahead then you can score a seat on the #farmbarbus, which means for only $15 return, you're not the designated driver. The bus needs a minimum of 15 pre-bookings to run each Friday night, so make sure you go to 2MT's website (http://www.2mt.com.au/events_farm_bar_bus.html) to put your name on a seat. It's well worth it for a night out at Two Metre Tall's Farm Bar. And who knows... you might even be lucky enough to be allowed entry into the sacred Man Cave. (I'll let you discover that one for yourself.)

Great place for a bit of taste testing of the ales and had so much fun there for my…read morebrother-in-laws birthday with Farm Bar. Keep up the great work!

Went there for late Friday afternoon beer in sun. Mission accomplished. Obviously hip place with…read morebud in outdoor yard on large garden area. The whole thing on the edge of Battery Point and Salamanca. Parking a bit limited but worth sorting it out to enjoy wide range of beers. Inside numerous rooms which seem common in oldish pubs in Tasmania.

Great burgers and atmosphere. Also, staff happy to help out with drink selections. Good for a…read morechill afternoon or evenings with friends and family

A traditional pub located in the heart of the trendy Salamanca market area. We wanted something…read morereally casual for our first night in Hobart and this fit the bilL. I requested a booking online bUt it wasn't really necessary on a midweek evening at the end of January. Instead of the nice table inside, we grabbed a spot outside on the great shaded patio. Burgers and sandwiches make up most of the menu and tHere are several versions of sliders as well. We chose the eye of beef filet sliders, a side order of chips (thick cut fries) and a Cesar salad. The salad particularly tasted good after a long couple of days off traveling. Overall the food was decent but nothing all that special or memorable. Nonetheless the atmosphere was great with lots of locals grabbing pints of beer after work and enjoying the beautiful weather.

I visited this place with a group of close friends, we were excited by what locals had told us but…read morewhen we got there our reservation was double booked. We eventually got a table and began to browse the menu, none of the burgers sounded all that appealing and were all very expensive for a burger, even before adding fries/drinks. One of us ordered their biggest burger (over $22) and when it came out, it didn't look good, they said the patties and other ingredients tasted burnt and the bread was old. For a place in Salamanca, this was a poor experience and we will not be returning, how they're in business I have no idea.

Shene Estate produce my favourite Tasmanian gin, Poltergeist, so based on that alone they get five…read morestars and my sincere thanks. I was inducted to the Poltergeist cult early on, winning myself a ticket to their launch party, itself steeped in mystery and excitement at a manor house in Hobart--but it was really my first visit to Shene that got all the pieces falling into place. Ten years ago the Kernkes took up the enormous task of restoring this old estate back to its former glory, and within moments of arriving on site you can tell they've poured their hearts and souls into that task. It's hard to believe that the big beautiful building taking precedence on the site was originally built as a stable for horses--looking at the outside of the building it actually sounds ridiculous. Visiting inside is a different matter, as some of the stables themselves are still standing. The barn next to the stables is the home of the gin bar and has likely already seen countless weddings take place, if not outside on the stones of the courtyard. Behind both these majestic old buildings is a much newer building, home to the distillery. This is where the magic happens! Head distiller Damien Mackey is in charge of both gin and whisky production, producing two gins (well, really it's just one recipe, but sold as both filtered and unfiltered) and Irish-style whiskeys in two copper stills (one roughly ten times as big as the other). There's also the roadside stall, similar to those you'd encounter driving along country roads with berries or flowers, but this one sells Poltergeist gin. That's my idea of a roadside stall. Shene can be hired as an event space or you can just drop in to grab a bottle from the roadside stall but no matter what, you'll want to get up close and personal with this beautiful estate and the utterly delightful humans who keep it running in its current state.