As I started producing some craft beers, I gathered a few mates together or dropped a few bottles off to their house for them to sample these final products. I was getting some positive feedback and they were enjoying the beers (probably too much as I was only just able to keep up the supply) so continued brewing and providing them beer and they even offered to start paying me to make them craft beer.

I couldn’t accept money from them, at the end of the day this was something I was passionate about and really enjoyed doing, but they were well relentless, so we started a bank account which was set up to help fund the purchase of ingredients for me to brew more and more craft beers – this is turn was the birth of 4 Mates Brewery.

The brewery has already outgrown the garage and purpose built brewing shed we built on the property to allow us to have more room, so now we are about to embark on the next stage and relocate into the town center into a proper factory and I think the Scott’s wife Amanda will be happy to have the garage back!!

2022 is going to a be big year for us, we have just purchased a new 600 litre brewhouse from a former brewery in Wellington which will arrive in the New Year. 

The team at 4 Mates Brewery are really looking forward to launching out beers into the NZ craft beer market in the very near future