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Welcome
to The Free House
Events
this week - Kit Bray live on Thursday and The Nelson Ukulele Orchestra
on Sat, both events Free at The Free House. See
full pub event details for March
here
We
are now serving great pizzas from (When in)
Rome of Hardy St - order at the bar. Also we are pleased
to be sponsoring the alt.country radio programme 'Rural
Delivery'
on Fresh FM
every Thursday 8.10-10pm - win a $50 bar tab by listening to the
show!
Sign
up for Free House, Dead Good Beer Events and MarchFest news updates
here

Marchfest
tickets now on sale at earlybird price - got yours yet?
Nelson
is at the heart of New Zealand’s hop growing region and is
the epicentre of the Kiwi craft brewing industry. The Free House
is Nelson’s first pub of its kind*. Our motto “set the
beers free” means we offer patrons an endlessly changing menu
of local and national craft beers. We are the only pub in Nelson
serving cask-conditioned real ales.
     
Only hand pumps in town ~ religious paint
job ~ the amazing Free House Sound System.
Beers,
wines and food currently available:

BRIGHT
BEERS
Tuatara
Hefe (5%), Golden Ticket Summer Babe (4.6%), Tuatara IPA (5%), Founders
Red Head (4.2%), Lighthouse Summer Breeze (4.4%), 8Wired Hopwired
(7.4%), Townshend's Monterey Lager (4.9%), Classic Stout (5%), Redwood
Old Mout BoysenCider (5.8%), Renaissance Stonecutter Scotch Ale
(7%).
REAL
ALES
(Cask-conditioned
served on hand pumps): Townshend's Cathcarts NTA (4.2%), Townshend's
Old House ESB (5.3%), Townshend's No 9 Stout (4%).
COMING
SOON:
Twisted
Hop Sauvin Pils, Thre Boys Porter, Emerson's 1812 IPA, Twisted Hop
Porter, issbeer, Mussel Inn Apple Roughy Cider, Green Man IPA, Green
Man Lager, Cathcarts NTA!
WINES
& SPIRITS:
A selection of fine local wines from Blackenbrook, Brightwater,
Kahurangi, Stafford Lane, Siefried, Fossil Ridge, Richmond Plains,
Te Mania, Tussock and Sunset Valley. Plus a superb selection of
premium Whiskey, Vodka, Grappa
etc.
JUICES,
FOOD ETC:
We usually have Mussel Inn Lemming Aid and Mussel Inn Ginger Beer
on tap plus bottled Phoenix Organic Cola and a selection of Benger
juices. We also serve tasty gourmet snacks such as Dolmades and
Olives, Ka Pies, L'Artisan Cornish Pasties, Traditional Ploughmans,
Proper Crisps and more. Or bring your own food from The
Indian Café over the road, Mumbai Mexico in Bridge St or
anywhere else you like!
  
It's comfy.. and colourful..

here we are - see you soon!
Nelson’s
first free house pub is the brainchild of Dead
Good Beer Events, the creators of the ‘Nelson Beer Fêtes’
held quarterly at Founders Heritage Park and the annual MarchFest
hops and music festival.
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What is a ‘free house’ ?
WIKIPEDIA: “Unlike a tied-house, a free house is a pub that
is owned independently of the brewery (or breweries) that supply
it. As a result, a free house can stock whichever beers it chooses
from whichever breweries it chooses. Free houses are rare, the majority
of pubs are tied-houses.”
The Free House was inspired by ...
Beery links we like:
      
  
     

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