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Welcome to The Free House
New Zealand's Premier
Craft Beer Destination
and Nelson's Craft Beer Heaven
(Voted
Overall Best Beer Venue in New Zealand
- Beer and Brewer Magazine -People's Choice- 2012)
Nelson's
Best Pub
- Lonely Planet NZ Guide 2011-12 
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upcoming pub events here.
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The
Free House is untied to any brewery.
Since opening in April 2009, we have served on tap
460+ different craft beers served from 58+ different breweries..
Read everything
you ever wanted to know about The Free House.
  
The church bar The
event yurt
FOOD:
Tuesdays to Saturdays - fab new food menu
for the Free House
- see the menu here.
PLUS Pizzas
from STEFANO'S (5-9pm only), Fernando's Chorizo, Home Made Pies,
Ploughmans, bowl of dolmades + artichokes + olives, bowl of mixed
olives, pickled eggs, PROPER crisps, peanuts and occasionally PICKLED
EGGS! OR Bring your own takeaways into the pub and we will usually
provide plates, napkins and cutlery. (Sorry no McDonalds, Burger
King or similar fast food outlets). If you can bring your plates
etc back to the bar when you have finished eating, we will love
you forever.
WINES
& SPIRITS:
A selection of fine local wines from Blackenbrook, Greenhough,
Neudorf, Orinoco, Richmond Plains, Te Mania, Tussock and Waimea
Estates. Plus a superb selection of premium Whisky, Vodka,
Grappa
etc.
NON-ALCOHOLIC
DRINKS:
ON
TAP: Mussel Inn Ginger Beer, Mussel Inn Lemonade, filtered water.
BOTTLED: Karma Organic Cola, Benger Juices (Apple and Boysenberry,
Apple and Feijoa, Apple and Raspberry, Apricot, Nectarine and Tomato),
soda water, tonic water, lime juice etc.
IN CARTONS: Charlie’s Pressed Apple Juice, Charlie’s
Squeezed Orange Juice.
 
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 goal is to 'set the
beers free' - meaning we aim to offer you 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.
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.”
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