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Black Dog Tavern owner fears he could lose liquor licence after allowing 21-year-old to drink from yard glass

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Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Wed, 27 May 2026, 4:15pm
Black Dog Tavern owner Brendon Wilson outside the pub in Makotuku. Photo / Jack Riddell
Black Dog Tavern owner Brendon Wilson outside the pub in Makotuku. Photo / Jack Riddell

Black Dog Tavern owner fears he could lose liquor licence after allowing 21-year-old to drink from yard glass

Author
Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Wed, 27 May 2026, 4:15pm

The owner of a controversial country pub fears he could lose his liquor licence after allowing the “Kiwi tradition” of a 21-year-old drinking beer from a yard glass.

The Black Dog Tavern is found down a country road off State Highway 2, in the small rural Tararua community of Makotuku, near Dannevirke.

Pub owner Brendon Wilson joined the Afternoons team to discuss. 

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