Otematata's Best Dam Pub

08/09/2026

📚 YOUR BOOKSHELF HAS BEEN HOARDING LONG ENOUGH. TIME FOR AN INTERVENTION. 😂

Our BOOKARAMA is coming up Friday 18 September, and we need your books NOW so we can build a glorious mountain of pre-loved reading material before the big night.

Got novels you’ve finished? Cookbooks you’ve never cooked from? Kids’ books they’ve outgrown? That self-help book that clearly didn’t work? Bring ’em in. 😏📚

👉 Drop your book donations into Otematata’s Best Dam Pub anytime before the event.

If you’ve got a particularly special or valuable book, just pop a price guide with it. Otherwise, books will be sold by donation.

And this isn’t just for Girls Night Out regulars — EVERYONE is welcome to donate, come along on the night, and rummage through the books over the weekend.

❤️ Every dollar raised goes to the Waitaki Valley Health Hub.

So have a ruthless bookshelf clean-out and drop the casualties at the pub.

Then come back on the 18th and buy someone else’s books to fill the bloody space you just made.
📚❤️

05/09/2026

Dad deserve an outting to The Best Dam Pub!

04/09/2026

03/09/2026

🎣 WHAT A WEEKEND AHEAD! 🕺🍻

The Outram Fishing Team are back in town, which means the fish will get bigger, the stories will get less believable and somebody will almost certainly lose track of what day it is. 😂

Tonight we’re kicking things off with TFIF, our usual Happy Hour, complimentary nibbles with the as edition of MEAT RAFFLES throughout the night! The perfect excuse to start the weekend before anyone can talk you out of it.

Then Saturday night, things are getting very cheesy… 🧀

🎶 Alice & Tony are back as FONDUE PARTY!
Expect cracking tunes, questionable dance moves and enough boogie to put your hips on ACC’s watchlist. Dust off the flares, loosen up the knees and come prepared for a bloody good time!

💰 Spin & Win is running every day, and it’s already spat out $320 this week! Apparently the wheel has decided to become a generous little bu**er.

A huge congratulations to Cartman, who cleaned up on Wednesday night and celebrated with the subtle dignity shown in the photo. Absolute class. 😂💵

Fishing teams, raffles, free nibbles, cold drinks, live music, cash prizes and grown adults dancing like nobody has a camera…

This weekend is completely out the gate. See you at Otematata’s Best Dam Pub! 🍺🔥

01/09/2026

TIGHT ASS TUESDAY… MY ARSE. 🍑💸

We’ve just handed Wayne Mosen $280 CASH after he cracked the Spin & Win jackpot.

Wayne’s a bloody legend. We’re $280 poorer. And someone will still wander in tomorrow and ask if we’ve got any specials.

Who says we’re tight?
We throw money around like a divorced uncle at the TAB.

Congratulations Wayne — spend it wisely… or come back and make another questionable decision.

01/09/2026

🚤 DRIVERS WANTED — FRIDAY & SATURDAY, 4PM–5PM 🚤

The annual Outram Fishing Competition is on, and apparently the boats can’t drive themselves back from the dam. Bloody inconvenient.

We’re chasing a few SOBER DRIVERS to help bring boats and vehicles from the dam back to the pub between 4pm and 5pm BOTH Friday and Saturday.

Yes. Sober. We checked the rules and everything. 😇

🍺 Your heroic sacrifice will be suitably recognised with appreciation beers AFTER the driving is done.

One hour of being responsible.
Then straight back to your usual standards.

If you can help, flick us a message or let the team know at the pub.

Do it for the fishermen. Their talents are better suited to telling lies about the size of their catch than organising logistics. 🎣😂

Otematata’s Best Dam Pub
Keeping fishing competitions moving… one temporarily sober bu**er at a time.

31/08/2026

A big thanks to Chris Manson for displaying his selection of 2007 Honda Cr motorbikes here. There is an 80cc, 125cc & 250cc lined up. Come have a look (please don’t touch).

30/08/2026

THE LORD RESTED ON SUNDAY. WE’VE CHOSEN CHAOS. 😈🍻

SUPER SUNDAY kicks off from 4pm with cracking deals, pub banter and enough temptation to ruin every sensible plan you made this morning.

Then there’s the $240 SPIN & WIN JACKPOT. 💸
Yep. Two hundred and forty actual dollars. Sitting there waiting for one lucky bu**er to give the wheel a flick and suddenly become unbearably smug.

Could be you.
Could be your mate.
Could be some random who only came in for “one quick drink” and leaves richer than you.

Get your backside to Otematata’s Best Dam Pub.
Sundays are for resting… once the money’s gone and the stories stop improving. 🍺🔥