Snowboarding Nz

[Yob]

Heading to NZ (Queenstown) for a boarding trip Late next month)...

anybody been to this area, breweries or points of interest?

Going for 7 days but will probably only get on the mountain for 3 of them, SWMBO's not quite as mad for the Snowboarding as I am so will need a few other things to do.

Cheers

 

[pk.sax]

There is one micro in q'town, dux lux or something. Beer is pretty OK, inoffensive. Plenty of places serving Monteith's though. The red is nice. There are a bunch of nice micros around Nelson though (up north of S. Island).
TeAnau is beautiful if you head out that way from q'town, beer is pretty good at the supermarkets

 

[Josh]

We found a bar that served the full range of Mac's beers. Nice wood fire and enjoyable company too.

In town there's Extreme Minigolf and gravity karting which was pretty fun for a group of 6-8 guys. Dunno how much you and the missus will get out of it though.

 

[Goldenchild]

Lived there and in wanaka for close to 2 years.
Plenty of places for a beer in queenstown. I believe it's 1 of the highest pub to population ratio in the world. That being said there's only a few really worth the visit. There's a few pubs that serve there own beers but I Can't think of the names right now it was a few years ago.
15mins out of Qtown is a small village called Arrowtown there is a very cosy brew bar here quite good food too.
http://www.arrowbrewing.co.nz/
45min drive over the crown range takes you too wanaka which is basically qtown from 15 yrs ago. Definitely worth a day trip. They have a brewery there which has just changed hands too I believe to a Belgian couple so worth checking out.
http://www.wanakabeerworks.co.nz/


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[Dave70]

Treble Cone seems to be where the cool kids go.

http://www.treblecone.com/

We went there in the off season, that's how cool we are.


After a hectic day of concussion and wrist fracturing, use your good arm to bend the elbow here.

http://www.speightsalehousequeenstown.co.nz/beers.html


We also walked the summit of Ben Lomond.
That was in the summer and it was still freezing, so you might want to think about wearing a turtleneck or something.

Top place.
I'm jealous.

 

[berto]

Treble Cone seems to be where the cool kids go.

http://www.treblecone.com/

WHat he said!

Treble Cone is by far the best of the 4 peaks near Queenstown but also the furthest out.

 

[Yob]

Cheers Lads.. Reckon I have a plan... Going to split my time between what it has to offer up there.. a bit of a drive Im used to so will give the good advice (PM's included) Ive been given a good go..

...as with all thing it's about a ballance..

The slopes and beer :icon_drunk:

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