About Us

From the deck of the good ship Broughham, Frederic Carrington surveyed a green, beautiful and abundant land. Enamored with what he saw, Carrington knew the moment was right to build a new city.

The first step, to christen New Plymouth. From that point he passionately set about designing a city for people not just to live in, but to feel alive in. A place that would rigorously evoke the spirit of all inhabitants. Nearly 170 years later, it's almost as he had planned.

Like our founding father before us, we love this place. However, we got thinking, how can we make New Plymouth even better? The answer - by seizing the opportunity to take you on a journey of fresh tastes.

Frederic's is where you'll find warm welcomes, the coldest beer and great food all round. We've built a place you can call home, a place where good times are in abundance.

We know Carrington would drink to that. Frederic's - our new place and your new discovery.

Opening Hours

Monday to Sunday: 11am until late

Meet the Team

We do our best at Frederic's to make sure you have the best experience possible and thats thanks to our amazing team. Here's a little info on some of the crew.

  • Cohen Baird - Owner
    Frederics Team Member

    Cohen -  loves this place - Where he enjoys a chat and a good laugh, with you our regulars, friends and family. Always available, ensuring a warm and welcoming atmosphere with the coldest beer and the friendliest staff.

  • Rachel Deegan - Co-owner
    Rachel Frederics Team Member

    A long time flirt in the Hospitality industry in Taranaki, it's a pleasure to have Rachel around no matter which side of the bar you are standing on. Her professionalism and strength of character are reflected in the quality service that she brings to Frederics - A place you can call home.

  • Lukas Zielinski - Head Chef
    Frederics Team Member

     

    Our crazy and committed Polish chef with a passion for producing top nosh food for our fun and addictive menu.

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Crushed Pear Cider
Monteith's Original
Monteith’s Radler®
Monteith's Golden
Monteith's Celtic
Monteith's Single Source
Crushed Apple Cider
Monteith's Pilsner
Monteith's Black

Crushed Pear Cider

It’s been nearly a year since Monteith’s Crushed Apple Cider arrived on the market, refreshing Kiwi palates and invigorating a category that had been stagnant for many years.

But far from simply celebrating their success, or resting on their laurels, the Monteith’s brewers have been tinkering with recipes and working hard to perfect their next cider variant and cater for a growing demand for the historic drop which dates back to medieval times.

Their hard-work has paid off and Monteith’s Crushed Pear Cider is set to launch on 1st September 2010 in four-packs only, just in time for the summer months.

Monteith’s Crushed Pear

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Monteith's Original

Monteith’s Original Ale delivers a full, round and complete beer flavour. It’s the hops that dominate aroma and taste. However, on closer inspection, there’s a subtle blackberry aroma which originates from the female flowers of the Pacific Gem Hops.

Brewed to the same Monteith family recipe since 1868, Monteith’s Original Ale is considered a pale ale in the heritage of beers brewed last century.

By today’s standards, Monteith’s Original Ale is fairly dark and this illustrates how much beers have changed over time. In the 1700s, the average beer was very dark and since then mainstream beers have

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Monteith’s Radler®

Monteith’s Radler® is a refreshing, fruity, lemon and lime-flavoured lager inspired by a drink first served up in Bavaria in the 1920’s by Franz Xaver Kugler, the owner of an Austrian Gasthaus. In search of an invigorating brew, he developed an easy drinking lager bier with a citrus twist — flavoured with lemon and lime – which was the perfect treat for the many cyclists (“radler” in German) and mountain hikers who visited his alpine guesthouse.

Radler® recreates the experience; it’s a lager beer, brewed to full strength at 5% alcohol by volume, with distinctive hoppy notes. The beer is brewed

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Monteith's Golden

Monteith’s naturally malted Golden lager has a fresh natural yeastiness in the aroma and a smooth malty character. There are just enough hops for a crispness that makes it a really refreshing beer. Enjoy the smooth rounded cashew nut flavour that is coaxed from premium Munich Malts.

Monteith’s Golden Lager is considered a ‘malty lager’ in the heritage of beers traditionally brewed in parts of Germany.

The tradition of Munich Oktoberfest and ‘export’ lagers balances a smooth mellow hop character with a rounded malty nutty richness and refreshing fruity aroma.

By today’s standards, Monteith

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Monteith's Celtic

Monteith’s Dry Kilned Celtic Beer froths up with a slightly roasted chocolate aroma from special kilning. This develops an invigoratingly dry, thirst-quenching characteristic in the beer. It’s the rich chocolate malts that deliver its distinctive burnt-red colours and baking chocolate aroma.

Monteith’s Celtic Beer is considered an ‘Irish-style ale’ in the heritage of beers of a burnt-red colour traditionally brewed in the Emerald Isle.

Monteith’s Celtic Beer has a dry roasted malt flavour characteristic of this style of brewing. This malty characteristic and crisp dryness is derived from malts of the

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Single Source

Single Source is a revolutionary new beer that is derived from Charmay barley from a singular Rakaia barley farm and Southern Cross hops from a singular Motueka hops farm, each one a source of the very best ingredients.

“It’s important to understand the source of ingredients before making a top quality craft beer, if you don’t understand the source, you’re not going to understand the finished beer,” explains Monteith’s Head Brewer Tony Mercer.

“We’ve looked at every single aspect of the beer; we figured if we did what we’ve always done we’d end up with the same results.  We

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Crushed Apple Cider

Thanks to a combination of gravity and the great team here at Monteith’s Brewery in Greymouth, Cider fans have a reason to rejoice in a new refreshing drink for summer.

Monteith’s new Crushed Apple Cider is crafted from sun-ripened Nelson fruit that gravitate from the province’s many thousands of apple trees before journeying to our Monteith’s master brewers here in Greymouth who spend three months carefully nurturing the freshly crushed apple juice.

It may be a new development for us here at Monteith’s but world-wide and in New Zealand, Cider is making a comeback.

“We’ve been working through some

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Monteith's Pilsner

Monteith’s lively hopped Pilsner Beer bursts forth with a brisk noble hop aroma. It’s a beer with immense flavour and enormous hop character. There is a tangible smooth clean bitterness, which really sets this beer apart.

Monteith’s Pilsner Beer is a Bohemian-style lager in the heritage of extremely hopped blonde beers brewed in parts of Eastern Europe. It has a complex hop aroma and a rich hop bitterness characteristic of this tradition in brewing.

Monteith’s Pilsner Beer has a malty quality that includes smooth caramel characteristics from the use of Vienna-style crystal malts. The key flavour is its

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Monteiths Black

Monteith’s Black Beer is in a league of its own in the heritage of very dark West Coast beers brewed prior to restrictions imposed on beers in New Zealand during World War II.

By today’s standards, Monteith’s Black Beer is distinctive, with a higher alcohol content than ‘mainstream’ beers and a crisp dark maltiness. This complex malty characteristic shines through from the use of five different premium malts. With biscuit, nutty, caramel, chocolate and coffee malt characteristics, it’s a special taste in beers that is truly akin to the rich black beers historically produced on the West Coast of New Zealand.

Monteith’s brewers have

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