Send it, Sip it, Smash it! EPIC COLLAB WITH FOURB MTB TOURS, LAKEMAN BREWING CO AND JIMMY COOPS.  We have joined forces with the legends at FourB, expert local MTB tour guides and Jimmy Coops the home of the best smash burgers and beers (ours of course) in Taupo to create a rad package perfect for adventurers, MTB enthusiast or craft beer lovers seeking a bloody cool afternoon out with mates or corporate team building activity on the trails of the world renowned Taupo Great Lake Trail. You’ll kick your afternoon off with transfers to the start of the Orakau to ..read more

Send it, Sip it, Smash it! EPIC COLLAB WITH FOURB MTB TOURS, LAKEMAN BREWING CO AND JIMMY COOPS.  We have joined forces with the legends at FourB, expert local MTB tour guides and Jimmy Coops the home of the best smash burgers and beers (ours of course) in Taupo to create a rad package perfect for adventurers, MTB enthusiast or craft beer lovers seeking a bloody cool afternoon out with mates or corporate team building activity on the trails of the world renowned Taupo Great Lake Trail. You’ll kick your afternoon off with transfers to the start of the Orakau to ..read more

Dishing Up a New Brew A Lakeman Brewing Co and That Green Olive Collaboration  With a solid base under our belts it was time to get creative and spice things up with this year’s stout release. Lucky for us Taupo is full of talent and local recipe creator and incredible food photographer That Green Olive was keen to jump on board to help the team spice things up, literally with Cardamom it turns out. Olivia experimented with a range of different flavor combinations that worked with our bourbon aged stout base, with some toing and froing with the team, the floavour com ..read more

'Underdog' takes out Supreme Award From humble beginnings as one of our very first beers brewed in 2013 we are stoked to see the now Primate Pilsner take out the Supreme Beer award at the 2023 New World Beer and Cider awards! Lakeman Brewing Co, although a small dog in the industry, the 2023 awards sees us triumph against some of the big dogs of beer. “Their Primate Pilsner is a pitch-perfect example of a New Zealand-style pilsner, with loads of bright citrus and the hint of dank herbal note on a clean, slightly sweet palate. It came out on top of a taste-off against some of th ..read more

Big Hairy Lunch 2.0 Taupo has a thriving hospitality scene and it has been a huge part of the Lakeman story, so you could imagine how hard the past few years have been for the hospitality operators, their staff and their suppliers in the region! So it was time to do what Lakeman does well and get our hairy on! A gathering of yeti portions was needed, we had pulled it off in 2019 and it was time to do it again! So the team pulled together the Big Hairy Lunch Out 2.0, over two days we invited some of the key hospitality operators in the region who have supported Lakeman for years by ..read more

Something Brewing - Country Calendar When the idea gets put in front of you that an iconic New Zealand television series wants to feature you, you take a second glance at each other, laugh and think should we do it? It turns out it’s what lies beneath the land that really triggered their interest in the story of our farm and Lakeman Brewing. We did say yes, and with a little bit of prep and haircuts all around, in August 2022 the crew from Country Calendar arrived at the house, and it was really happening! Here to follow us for 5-6 days doing everything around the farm, in the brewe ..read more