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In late summer 1903, a quiet and unassuming Waitohi farmer climbed into his self-built mono plane and flew for about 140 metres before landing in a gorse hedge. He achieved this eight months before the Wright brothers achieved their first flight.
In 1917 nitrogen was converted into oxygen, or in other words ‘the atom was split’. He was to the atom what Darwin was to evolution, Newton to mechanics and Einstein to relativity – he was born in Nelson.
Fast forward to 1953 and a beekeeper stood on the summit of the highest mountain in the world. He took a deep breath before starting on the descent.
A decade later a bloke from Invercargill travelled to the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah with his ‘home-tweaked’ vintage Indian motorcycle, where he set a land speed record.
Richard Pearse, Lord Rutherford, Sir Ed Hillary, Burt Munro – just a few New Zealanders who have taken on the world and won.
More recently, John Britten, New Zealand’s king of motorbike building, constructed the world’s fastest bike in his garden shed, which went on to crush all in its path including the best from the Japanese and Italian Marques.
And of course Peter Jackson and the Weta Workshop team have shown the world that you don’t have to be in Hollywood to make movies that win Oscars.
Each of these stories is hugely ambitious, and each story is distinctly New Zealand.
For one of the smallest countries in the world, New Zealand makes a lot of noise – we like to achieve big things on the world stage.T
his is in the DNA of New Zealanders – we’re explorers at heart, we thrive on the dream, the adventure and the challenge.
CARVE OUR OWN PATH
A simple set of words that sums up our spirit, our independence, our ambition and our focus.
These words inspire each of the Steinlager beers. Each brewed in a distinctive style that evokes our spirit, our independence and our ambition.
“In some ways I believe I epitomise the average New Zealander: I have modest abilities, I combine these with a good deal of determination, and I rather like to succeed.”
– Sir Edmund Hillary.
The same commitment that inspires New Zealanders to never accept second best drives us to make Steinlager, New Zealand’s finest beers.
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