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Monteith's Brewing Company

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Monteith's Brewing Company
Monteith's Brewing Company
Monteith's Brewing Company
Monteith's Brewing Company
Monteith's Brewing Company
Monteith's Brewing Company
Monteith's Brewing Company
Monteith's Brewing Company
Monteith's Brewing Company
Monteith's Brewing Company
Monteith's Brewing Company
Monteith's Brewing Company
Monteith's Brewing Company
Monteith's Brewing Company
Monteith's Brewing Company
Phone:
+64 3-768 4149

Address:
Cnr Turumaha and Herbert Streets | Cnr Turumaha & Herbert Streets, Greymouth, New Zealand

Monteith's Brewery Company was originally a family-owned brewing company until it was bought by DB Breweries. It continued to brew its beers on the West Coast of New Zealand until DB decided that the cost of keeping production there was no longer viable. The Greymouth brewery was closed on 22 March 2001, but reopened four days later following a public outcry. The beers are now produced in Auckland, and Timaru as well as Greymouth. On 25 July 2012, the newly transformed Greymouth brewery was officially reopened after 18 months of refurbishment.The brand Monteith’s has existed only since 1990 and the connection back to the original Stuart Monteith, who didn’t even name his brewery after himself , is tenuous at best. In 1927, Monteith’s Phoenix Brewery was one of five – in Reefton, Hokitika and Kumara – that amalgamated to become Westland Breweries, a company headed by Stuart’s son, William Monteith. The new organisation was based at Turumaha Street, Greymouth, but there was no brewery on site, just a bottling plant until 1949 when a centralised brewery started to take over the operations of the other breweries in the group. One by one, the breweries making up Westland Breweries were closed, with the original Monteith-owned Phoenix Brewery in Reefton pumping out its last beer in 1963, leaving the centralised Greymouth plant the only one servicing the area. In 1969, the expanding empire of Dominion Breweries took over and the brewery became known as DB Westland Breweries. Though run under the DB banner, Westland Breweries for a long time produced beers popular on the Coast and reflecting the history of the brewery as a group enterprise: Westbrew Golden Lager, Tira Pale Ale, Westland Extra Stout, Westbrew Bitter, Monteith’s Pale Ale , Morley’s Special Stout and Westland Golden Draught. In 1990, when DB was going through its rebranding exercise, it decided to drop the “DB” tag from the brewery name and “create” some history around one of the original driving forces behind West Coast brewing: the Monteith family. It gambled on renaming the brewery Monteith’s and creating a range of products under that label.
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