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I know this may be a bit of an iffy subject (what with Heineken owning them and all <!-- s:lol: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_lol.gif" alt="" title="Laughing" /><!-- s:lol: --> ) but those anyone know where I could get a bottle or two? It was the beer that started me away from lagers et al (when I was down in NZ) but for the life of me I can't remember why!!

&amp;quot;donnchadhc&amp;quot;:24dz2y5h wrote: (what with Heineken owning them and all <!-- s:lol: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_lol.gif" alt="" title="Laughing" /><!-- s:lol: --> )[/quote:24dz2y5h]Well, ish: Heineken owns part of Asia-Pacific, which owns 90% of DB which owns Montieth's.

&amp;quot;donnchadhc&amp;quot;:24dz2y5h wrote: anyone know where I could get a bottle or two?[/quote:24dz2y5h]Never seen it on sale here.

I thought Montieth's Black was OK, but didn't particularly care for the others. It's a nice brewery tour, even though the one in Greymouth produces a tiny tiny proportion of the full production run.

Yeah, the greymouth tour was nice - when I was there they had a special on tap, a very tasty red ale, not too dissimilar from Porterhouse Red; said it was done by a trainee brewer who was on loan from Lion.

Quite liked a few of the others; baltic porter, summer ale, winter ale particularly.

Despite them ultimately being part of the conglomerate, the fact that they're willing to brew something other than fizzy yellow stuff makes them OK in my book.

Ah, but fizzy yellow stuff isn't the default macrocrap of New Zealand -- it's fizzy red stuff.

&amp;quot;TheBeerNut&amp;quot;:9fus299p wrote: Ah, but fizzy yellow stuff isn't the default macrocrap of New Zealand -- it's fizzy red stuff.[/quote:9fus299p]

Not tried Export Gold then (uggh! <!-- s:evil: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_evil.gif" alt="" title="Evil or Very Mad" /><!-- s:evil: --> )

&amp;quot;donnchadhc&amp;quot;:3s003q07 wrote: Not tried Export Gold then (uggh! <!-- s:evil: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_evil.gif" alt="" title="Evil or Very Mad" /><!-- s:evil: --> )[/quote:3s003q07]Oh I have[/url:3s003q07]. But yellow lager is still a bit of a specialty beer, even though the big brewers are pushing it hard because it's fashionable elsewhere. Still the default crappy style is "Draught", like Tui, Speight's Gold Medal and Montieth's Original, of course.