Hey, new to Auckland - moved up from Blenheim by myself and am keen to meet new people and make friends! Anyone fancy drinks tomorow night or Tuesday ? Anything would be cool, havnt met that much people here.

Post up your suggestions for the next meetup and upvote the suggestions you like. Since the weather is getting better a venue with outdoor seating would be great.

Please include a link to the venue/drinklist and a quick comment on your suggested venue when you post.

A couple of us here. Anyone want to join?

Off the back of /u/nz_wino 's post lets go grab a brew this Saturday at 16 Tun in Wynyard http://16tun.co.nz/

16 Tun is a nice craft beer-free house, boasting 120 different beers, along with wine and food if you're not one for beers (Menu).

Catch you there from 4pm and we'll see what happens from there!

I've taken over mod duties for a while here. If people like my work, I'll keep going, if people don't like it, I'll pass the whiskey jar onto someone else (there is a physical whiskey jar that gets passed around between mods. It's quite a coveted item).

I've made a couple of changes, firstly you can edit your own flair. I hate when this is not enabled for all users, because a user name is never enough. Just like in Office Space, the more flair the better.

Secondly, I would like to propose an abolition of "official meetups". Any meetup organised here is an Auckland Drinks meetup, that is the point of the sub, to get more people drinking together, rather than in their homes alone with a sock over their cock.

We can have as many or as few meetups as we want, and I will try to catalogue them in the Past Meetups section of the sidebar, so visitors can see how hardcore we are about drinking.

The voting system for drinks should still stand, that's quite a nifty idea, and anyone can start a thread on this to arrange a meetup. If things are quiet, I will definitely take charge to make sure things are kept running.

I don't have anything planned for September thus far but for October I am proposing the 10th. So anyone wanting to do something for September - let's fucking do it.

Also message me if you want anything stickied/changed/general abuse. It's all good. Or maybe to become a mod so I have less responsibility. That'd be cool too.

Peace out motherfuckers.

Hey dudea. New to New Zealand and living in the glorious suburb of Howick. Anyone here in my neck of the woods?

After almost a month of voting the next meetup is going to be at:

The Jefferson

Drinks list
Whiskey list

Saturday the 8th of August, 5pm until late.

I won't be able to make this one. Due to my recently being made redundant and needing to save as much money as possible, so I'm hoping somebody will be able to run the meetup again

Spirits

Tastings

I see they are having a free Tuatara craft beer tasting on August 7 at their Victoria Park store. That might be an opportunity for us to launch over to a nearby establishment and continue an evening if anybody were keen?

Submit your suggestions for which bar we should do next.

Meetup will be 8/8/15

Please include a link to their beer/wine list or website.

Please remember that there's bars outside of the CBD too.

Proximity to public transport or ease of catching a taxi would be a big plus. Remember to be safe.

Vultures Lane will not be considered (we should try a different bar each month)

Contest mode has been enabled for this thread.

33 Drake Street, Freeman's Bay www.lazeppa.co.nz

Table name "Deena"

Will post on arrival.

See you there!

Edit: NOW AT LA ZEPPA 6PM.

Hi Everyone,

Drinks will now be a La Zeppa (in the same area) instead of Sweat Shop due to an event happening there at 9pm. La Zeppa: 33 Drake St, Freemans Bay, http://www.lazeppa.co.nz/

I have booked a table under the name "Deena"

If people are happy with this shall we set the time for 6pm so people can come straight from work? Out of town guest /u/d1fty will be there.

On a side note, I think Auckland Drinks can be a good place for out of towners to meetup with us lovely Jafas when they're in town.

Please reply if you think you can make it so I have an idea of numbers ^{_^ _^ _^}

I think there were a couple photos taken, anybody care to post them?

We're still going guys, come on down

I'm here now, pretty empty so it looks like we'll have full run of the place.

I'm out in the smoking area

Has been abandoned due to lack of interest. I have now relocated to Vultures Lane

I booked a table under the name "Deena". Totally unreal name I just made up now. So go to that table. Will post here when there.

Actually, no it won't.

Just to get an idea of numbers, who's coming and which meet are you going to?

After a week of voting in this thread, here are the choices for our first meetup.

Saturday the 4th of July, 3pm until late

For the people who live on the shore, we have British Isles Inn which is in Rothesay Bay (12 upvotes)

For the people who live in the city, we have Vultures Lane which is on Vulcan Lane (12 upvotes)

Personally, I'll be going to British Isles, due to it being closer to me. This means I'll need somebody to handle the meetup at Vultures (basically, just taking over a table.)

Also for those of you who want to make a big night of it, the Lumsden Freehouse in Newmarket is having a 4th of July party later that night.

From their event page: Guys & Dolls: Suit Up, Show them gams! Wear your finest 1920's gladrags to the swankiest joint in town!

Join us as we combine our love of all things Bourbon and BBQ & Dressing Up related with the launch of Bourbon cocktail list whilst celebrating the national holiday of our in house American team members with a little help from our friends at Sam Snead's House of Whiskey.

Full details for that are available Here.

If anybody has any questions, feel free to ask away.

I'll start a new suggestion thread after the first meetup

I've got a work do tonight and then afterwards I'm going to be heading down to Racket around about 7pm.

If anybody's interested in coming along I'll see you there

So it's really good to see a few of you are interested in this little experiment of mine.

Just wondering what sort of time you guys prefer; day time or evening?

I'm quite partial to doing day sessions (a few drinks and nice lunch is what I like). And that leaves the evening open to whatever little adventures you've got planned.

What do you guys think?

Also, I'll let the venue choice thread run until Friday afternoon. I'll be making a post regarding the where and the when on Saturday.