Beers for all at Queenstown festival

Sampling a brew at the Queenstown Summer Beer Festival at the recreation ground on Saturday are (clockwise from left) Phil and Helen Markham, Amy Heinrich, Jenni and David Powell, Stephen Markham and Annabel Day.

They were among several hundred people who taste-tested a range of craft beverages from 17 Queenstown and Wanaka breweries.

Co-organiser Malcolm Blakey said numbers were down on last year’s inaugural event, which he blamed on competing events, including the Glenorchy Races. 

There was "quite a lot on".