Monteith’s Greymouth brewery will not close, delete word gifted to the district

Monteiths Brewery in Greymouth. Photo / Supplied

A West Coast college has been saved from permanent seal.

In November a year ago DB Breweries announced it was trying to end its Monteith’s brewing operations in Greymouth.

These Greymouth brewery dates back to 1868; Monteith’s was founded on the Coast.

However , the Grey Location Council says an agreement has been reachable where the bottling plant will be handed back to the district.

Mayor Tania Gibson said once she is sad about DB’s start, the outcome is hugely positive.

“Hopefully we can create new opp for the region out of it. We have working with some local craft machines to work out how we can best use this resource so there’s several excitement there and definitely some women. ”

Gibson alleged details of the transfer are still for being finalised.

“This affords an opportunity for a new business and obviously, it is good to diversify and some kind of co-op, hobby brewing, artisan beer business might great for our tourism branding furthermore. ”

In The fall of 2019, DB Breweries confirmed certainly was proposing to move commercial production of your Monteith’s in Greymouth to the nation’s other breweries in Auckland together with Timaru.

DB attributed the “complexity” of moving unprocessed trash to Greymouth, and then transporting in addition to product out, saying it was much more commercially viable, from both a cost and additionally carbon emissions point of view, given the limited volumes.