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Monteith's
The legend began in the mid-1800s, when a gold rush drew 30,000 adventurers to the West Coast of New Zealand. Thirsty prospectors had over 84 pubs to choose from, but William Monteith’s family-owned Phoenix Brewery became the area’s most popular. Phoenix Brewery later merged with a group of small breweries to form Westland Breweries, predecessor to today’s Monteith’s Brewing Company - renowned as New Zealand’s original craft brewery.
For over 140 years, Monteith’s has stayed true to the authentic processes and recipes of classic beer styles. Monteith’s craft beers are made to exacting standards while capturing the spirit of New Zealand’s pioneering West Coast.
Quick Facts
OWNER: DB Breweries Ltd.
WEB SITE: http://www.monteiths.com
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Featured Beers
Original Ale
Monteith's richly hopped Original Ale delivers a full, round and complete beer flavour. It’s the hops that dominate aroma and taste. However, on closer inspection, there’s a subtle blackberry aroma which originates from the female flowers of the Pacific Gem Hops.
Brewed to the same Monteith family recipe since 1868, Monteith’s Original Ale is considered a pale ale in the heritage of beers brewed last century ~ good body, complex ale fruitiness and a significant hoppy aftertaste.
Monteith’s Original Ale has a solid malty characteristic tending to the dark crystal malt range, with notes of caramel or burnt sugar. However, its key focus is extra bitterness, as the tradition of pale ales tends to be beers with significant hop characteristics.
Pilsner
Monteith's lively hopped Pilsner Beer bursts forth with a brisk noble hop aroma. It’s a beer with immense flavour and enormous hop character. There is a tangible smooth clean bitterness, which really sets this beer apart.
Monteith’s Pilsner Beer is a Bohemian-style lager in the heritage of extremely hopped blonde beers brewed in parts of Eastern Europe. It has a complex hop aroma and a rich hop bitterness characteristic of this tradition in brewing.
Monteith’s Pilsner Beer has a malty quality that includes smooth caramel characteristics from the use of Vienna-style crystal malts. The key flavour is its enormous hop character, crafted around this complex malt flavour.
black beer
Monteith's crisp & smooth Black Beer is crisper than sweet darks and smoother than harsh stouts. It’s a beer that is crafted from a blend of five premium malts to create a complex depth of flavours with coffee notes dominant.
Monteith’s Black Beer is distinctive, with a higher alcohol content than ‘mainstream’ beers and a crisp dark maltiness. This complex malty characteristic shines through from the use of five different premium malts. With biscuit, nutty, caramel, chocolate and coffee malt characteristics, it’s a special taste in beers that is truly akin to the rich black beers historically produced on the West Coast of New Zealand.
Monteith’s Black Beer has a medium perceived bitterness from the use of a single premium hop variety. This method of hopping adds to the dry-roasted notes of darker malts and is balanced with the sweeter nutty tastes of the tawny malts.
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