Living in New Zealand: There Are Good Independent Breweries Here and One of Them is the West Coast Brewery in Westport

West Coast Brewery (Click to see options for using the image)

If you are a beer drinker, you can't go to Westport without stopping in at the West Coast Brewery. It doesn't make the sweet dishwater that passes for beer with the big NZ breweries and it is still independently owned. If you want to taste the beer, you can get it straight from the tap without getting a “flight' of beers served in fancy glasses that disguise the fact you have paid good money for sips of substandard beer.

And at $18 dollars for a pack of six beers of your choice, it's worth taking a few away.

Part of the range of West Coast Brewery’s beer