Posts Tagged ‘ history ’

It’s common to think that the use of take home draught beer – or growlers, in the modern parlance – is a new thing. As John Harvey shares, every old is new again.
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Today we meet British beer writer and historian Martyn Cornell. Martyn is the creator of the Zythophile site through which he writes about beer and beer history and, along the way, debunks a few myths.
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Tim Cooper on Coopers, as told to Matt Kirkegaard. Article first published in 2007 Beer occupies an important place in Australian society. It also occupies a fairly important place in my family’s history. So it is exciting to see how vibrant the Australian beer scene is at the moment including the rapid growth of craft...
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As Brisbane deals with a major flood crisis, historian Brett Stubbs looks at how past floods have affected the city's brewerys...
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The Australian Pub Diane Kirkby, Tanja Luckins and Chris McConville. University of New South Wales Press, Sydney, 2010 ISBN 9780868408750 $49.95. The Brewery by Andrew T. T. Bailey. Wilkinson Publishing, Melbourne, 2010 ISBN 9781921667589, $95.00. Those with an interest in the history of the making and drinking of beer in Australia will be delighted...
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With the resurrection of the Great Northern Brewing Co brand, CUB is making a play for parochial Queensland drinkers. But Australia's largest brewer has a long history in Queensland as historian Brett Stubbs explains...
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Brewer Richard Adamson takes a look at a world of beer styles and wonders which we have, or can, make our very own...
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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 Gold Digger’s Arms: Pubs of the Upper Clarence River District, New South Wales By Brett J. Stubbs In this book Brett J. Stubbs, an environmental historian and Australia’s leading historian of beer and breweries, turns his hand to local history, albeit a local history that reflects his areas of expertise. Typical of most...
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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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