The original premises were on Willis Street and the bar area was up a sweeping set of wooden stairs. From the very beginning, the Malthouse had a commitment to serving a wide variety of beers. This immediately landed us in some strife with the bigger breweries who wanted to control and limit the range of beers a bar could offer.
Being the first New Zealand bar to serve Heineken was an early Malthouse milestone – and also our first trip to the lawyers. Apparently, no one said offering the discerning beer drinker a real choice was going to be easy.
The Willis Street bar was hugely popular with nearby workers and also attracted crowds from many miles to try some of the more unusual beers on offer. We quickly lost track of how many ‘firsts' we were racking up on the beer front.
Wellington Beer Writer Neil Miller said trying a particularly special Malthouse beer changed his entire outlook on beer
Monday
N/A
Tuesday
N/A
Wednesday
N/A
Thursday
N/A
Friday
N/A
Saturday
N/A
Sunday
N/A
July 2, 2022 9:15 pm local time
48 Courtenay Place, Te Aro, Wellington 6011, New Zealand
Add a review