In this extract from his forthcoming book Beer, Mines and Rails: a history of the brewing industry in Queensland to the 1920s, Australia’s leading beer historian, Dr Brett Stubbs, looks at the contribution one family made to brewing in Queensland and beyond.
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The old Stanley Street pub changed hands at the end of March, and is undergoing a gradual transformation from bland Aussie boozer into craft beer pub.
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After having been idle for most of 2009, the little brewery at Geelong’s Scottish Chief’s Tavern has recently been reactivated. Barwon Heads home brewer Dan Cunningham took the lease of the brewery at the end of last year and now runs his Beacon Brewing Company from the facility. He is currently producing two beers — Beacon...
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The long-awaited Moody Cow Brewery in Western Australia’s Ferguson Valley opened for business for the first time this week. Moody Cow is the creation of Grant McClintock, the latest in a growing line of Australian homebrewers to take the logical but daring next step to commercial beer production. The name of his business fits neatly...
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With the recent creation of the Balmain Brewing Company, the inner-Sydney suburb of Balmain once again has a beer to call its own. Balmain Original Pale Ale, the company’s inaugural brew, is a full-strength (a touch under 5 percent) English-style ale, which spokesman Martin Lalor reckons will be the perfect accompaniment for a hot...
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The newest addition to South Australia’s small but impressive contribution to the country’s craft brewing sector is the family-owned and family-operated Goodieson Brewery in rural McLaren Vale. Founding brewer Jeff Goodieson, a food technology and malting and brewing graduate from Ballarat University, tossed in his job at Lion-Nathan in Sydney to set up this...
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To many beer lovers, death by beer might sound like a great way to go. But as historian Dr Brett Stubbs has discovered, it's not always so. It seems as though making beer is fraught with many dangers...
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The family-owned and family-operated Mountain Ridge Wines near Berry, south of Wollongong, has recently diversified into beer-making. The vineyard was planted in 2007 by Barry and Monique Starkey and their sons, and in mid-2009 they added Mountain Ridge Brewery to their operation. Barry brews in 300 litre batches, using a custom-built stainless steel system,...
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True South restaurant-brewery at Black Rock, on the eastern shore of Port Phillip Bay, opened in September 2009, but without a licence to sell its beer. This unfortunate omission was rectified at the beginning of December, and the beer then began to flow. Although the retail sale of beer had been curtailed, the making of...
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