New Zealand brewery answers London SOS

We all know Kiwis are an intrepid lot, so its no surprise that when one of their number found himself in London gasping for a drop of his favourite brew he called a mate back home who got onto the local brewery and next thing you know they’re shipping over not only some of their best beer but a whole pub to go with it.

The bloke dying of thirst in London is Tim Ellingham and the brewery coming to the rescue is Speight’s, over 130 years old, from Dunedin on New Zealand’s South Island. After hearing from fellow mates in distress in London, ‘I miss a great beer, a mans beer. Not some rubbish pommy excuse of a beer that is served warmer than hell itself,’ Blair H, ‘London is fantastic. Pay rates are great. City is beautiful. Work opportunities are everywhere. The sights, the sounds, the people. The beer however tastes like cat piss,’ Ayden B and ‘born and breed in the South. My fondest childhood memory was being allowed to suck the froth of my old mans Speight’s with a bit of endendale cheese,’ Ian M, how could they not put a plan into action.

They’ve had their regular builders knock up a pub and its going on the back of a boat with a load of Speight’s beer, leaving Dunedin in July. They estimate its going to take ten weeks via Samoa, Panama, the Bahamas and New York to reach London and they’re looking for three crew members to join the boat who’ll ‘need to concentrate on being a good bastard’ and update the Speight website every day about the journey so far.

If you want to sign on for a ten week trip sailing a pub from New Zealand to London fill in the online application form. Hope there’s some of that Speight’s left when they get here so we can see what the fuss is about.