The Free House is untied to any brewery. It isn’t a brewpub but rather a portal for the multitude of craft beers being created all over New Zealand.
In the barren beer years of the early 2000’s Mic and Eelco started holding quarterly beer tastingevents called the Nelson Beer Fêtes. They did this in the selfish hope that some visionary soul would open a pub to irrigate the parched. Three years passed and the Fêtes grew in popularity, but the prophet failed to show. When the old Reformed church went up for sale. Mic and Eelco saw it as sign and in the quiet autumn days of April 2009,
The Free House was created.
Thirst slaked.
