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Keith M. Deutsher

Vale: Keith M. Deutsher, Brewery Historian

April 23, 2020 by Matt Kirkegaard

Australian brewery historian Keith Deutsher, author of The Breweries of Australia: A History, has passed away aged 98.

Category: News Tagged: history, Keith Deutsher

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Towards a History of the Breweries of Walhalla, Victoria

January 31, 2020 by Dr Brett J. Stubbs

Aside from facing bushfires and floods, our early breweries also had their own versions of social media it seems with enthusiasts declaring whether a brewery’s product ‘honestly brewed’.

Category: News Tagged: breweries, history, Victoria

Radio Brews News – Episode 99 – Willie Simpson

July 26, 2016 by Radio Brews News

This week we catch up with beer writer, brewer and now beer Forefather, Willie Simpson. If you read about beer in the era before blogs, Willie was most likely the person whose words you read. Willie has been writing about beer since the late 1980s and, more recently, been brewing it at his brewery, Seven Sheds, in Railton Tasmania.

Category: Features, Radio Brews News Tagged: Forefathers, history, stone and wood, Willie Simpson

Alan Bond and Bernie Power: Beer in the ’80s

June 5, 2015 by Matt Kirkegaard

With the news of Alan Bond’s death, recollections of his days at Bond Brewing in the 1980s and his ongoing influence on the brewing industry is explored.

Category: Featured, Features Tagged: 80s, Alan Bond, Bernie Power, Bill Taylor, Bond Brewing, Castlemaine Perkins, history, Lion Nathan, Powers, Swan Brewing, XXXX

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Book review: Very Good Beer and Ale

July 4, 2014 by John Harvey

John Harvey reviews Very Good Beer and Ale: Breweries and Brewers of Tasmania 1820s to 1930s; an important study into the early history of brewing in Tasmania by historian Dr Brett J Stubbs.

Category: Features Tagged: books, Brett Stubbs, brewery history, history, reviews

Gavin Ralston and the Breweries of Sale, Victoria

May 12, 2014 by Dr Brett J. Stubbs

Beer historian Dr Brett Stubbs uncovers the long-forgotten story of brewer Gavin Ralston and the breweries of Sale…

Category: Features Tagged: Brehenys, Gavin Ralston, history, Victoria

Bickley Valley Brewery

March 13, 2014 by Dr Brett J. Stubbs

Western Australia has welcomed Bickley Valley Brewery to the region, filling a void in a state that is currently lacking in craft breweries.

Category: Features Tagged: Bickley Valley Brewery, history, WA, Western Australia

Forgotten brewers (and tax men): Olaf Hilmer Hedberg

March 10, 2014 by Dr Brett J. Stubbs

Brett Stubbs, brewery historian and author of Very Good Beer and Ale – Breweries and Brewers of Tasmania 1820s to 1930s, introduces us to Olaf Hilmer Hedberg, brewer at Cascade and Tasmania’s first Collector of Beer Duty

Category: Features Tagged: Brett Stubbs, Cascade, excise, history, Olaf Hilmer Hedberg, Tasmania, tax

Brew Pubs in Australia: their long forgotten history

February 12, 2013 by Dr Brett J. Stubbs

Dr Brett Stubbs takes a look at the long and forgotten history of brew pubs in Australia…

Category: Features Tagged: brew pubs, craft beer, history, Sail & Anchor

A beer to celebrate 150 years of Newtown

December 4, 2012 by Media Release

On 12 December 1862 Newtown Municipality was proclaimed by Government Gazette, covering 480 acres in three wards: Enmore, Kingston and O’Connell. By the 1870s, Newtown was one of the most densely populated municipalities in NSW and a decade later was one of the main retail centres outside the city. King Street is Newtown’s spine. The… Read more →

Category: News Tagged: history, NSW, Young Henrys

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