Brussels: Beer & Chocolate Tasting Walking Tour

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Duration4h

GroupUp to 12

LanguagesPT

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Six Belgian Beers and Ten Chocolates in One Afternoon

You walk Brussels's city center hitting Grand Place, the Royal Galleries, and Manneken Pis while tasting six varieties of Belgian beer and ten artisan chocolates at specialist bars and shops. The guide handles the history and the route; you handle the tasting. Cheese and cured meat are shared with the group, and you leave with a 10% discount voucher for chocolate shops.

Step-by-step itinerary

Beer and chocolate tasting in Brussels

Walking tour of city center
Taste chocolate and beer in bars
Visit Royal Galleries
See Manneken Pis statue
Enjoy beer and chocolate tasting nearby

The Experience

The smell hits you first—dark malt and cocoa powder mixing in the narrow streets around Grand Place. You're standing in front of the Royal Galleries of Saint Hubert, and your guide is already pointing out the brass plaques on the chocolate shop windows, the ones that list awards from competitions you've never heard of but somehow matter here. This is Brussels beer and chocolate tasting, and it moves on foot through the city center, stopping at bars and specialist chocolatiers where the owners know exactly what they're pouring and wrapping. You'll taste at least six different Belgian beers—styles that range from Trappist ales to lambics—and sample a minimum of ten chocolates, each one a different take on what chocolate can be.

The walking tour passes the main attractions: Grand Place with its guild halls, the Royal Galleries where you stop for tastings, and Manneken Pis, the small bronze statue that's somehow become the symbol of the whole city. Your local guide walks you through the history as you move between spots—how Belgian beer culture goes back centuries and was declared UNESCO Intangible Heritage of Humanity in 2016, how the chocolate tradition here isn't just about sweetness but about technique and sourcing. You're not rushing; the pace lets you actually taste what you're drinking and eating, and there's time to take pictures at each landmark. Groups stay under eighteen people, so it never feels crowded.

Along the way you also get cheese and a portion of cured meat shared with the group, which keeps you grounded between the beer and chocolate. The tour includes a 10% discount at city center chocolate shops if you want to buy more after the tasting ends. It's the kind of afternoon where you learn something about a place through what it makes, not through a lecture.

What’s included

Your tour includes tasting of a minimum of six different Belgian beer styles at traditional bars and pubs, sampling of at least ten artisan chocolates at specialist chocolatiers, cheese and cured meat shared with the group, a 10% discount voucher for chocolate shops in the city center, and a local guide leading the walking tour through Brussels's main attractions. All alcoholic beverages during tastings are included.

Good to know

Easy physical levelPets welcomePublic transport nearby

Operated by BEM BELGA - Seu guia na Bélgica

Is this one for you?Book this if you want to taste Belgian beer and chocolate without planning which bars to visit or which chocolatiers are worth your time—the guide knows the spots and the tastings are already arranged, so you just show up and taste your way through the city.