Dick Tout has been a beer enthusiast all his life starting off brewing with kit sets and advancing and expanding his knowledge to now what we drink today as Lighthouse beer.

To supply good quaility natuarlly brewed beer with out any preservitives, additives or any pasteurisation process and to have fun doing it!

• First award –1997 Australian International Beer Awards bronze Dicks Dark
• Highlights are– Gold for Classic Stout in NZ Hop Marketing Board International Beer Awards in 2000
• Silver for Tasman Bay Pilsener at the NZ International Beer Awards in 2005
• Silver for Dicks Dark at the NZ International Beer Awards and Bronze for Cheeky Little Lager in 2008
• Sliver for the Cheeky Little Lager at the Nelson A&P Show 2011 Craft Beer Section.
• In 2004 Classic Stout won Best in Class in Australia Internaionl Beer Awards.

There are heaps more mostly bronze in Aust & NZ.