First published in Beer Matters, this 1986 article recounts the launch of Melbourne's first pub brewery of the modern era....
Our historian-in-residence Brett Stubbs has filed another of his occasional series on the history of early brewers and breweries of Australia, this time looking at the breweries of Walhalla in North G...
As reported in July, about 20 new breweries commenced operations in Australia in the first half of 2017. It is now possible to detail the new breweries in the subsequent six months, and to present an ...
I have always been a bit of a conservative when it comes to beer and beer ingredients, preferring the simple barley-malt, water, hops and yeast approach to brewing. Some of the things that in recent y...
Samuel George Mason was one of many English brewers who came to the Australian colonies in the nineteenth century to practise their craft and contribute to the development of our own nascent brewing i...
Small Brewery Update – Half-yearly Progress Report:New breweries continue to open around Australia at a startling rate, so I have attempted (with editorial encouragement) a half-yearly assessmen...
Sleigh is a name remembered in Australian history more in the contexts of shipping and petroleum than brewing, following from the greater business successes of Harold Crofton Sleigh than of his younge...
Small Brewery Update – 2016 in Review: As a studious observer of and regular writer about the Australian brewing industry for some decades now, I have had the good fortune, and the pleasure, to ...
Frequently during the course of my ongoing research into the Australian brewing industry I come across a brewer whose life and career seem to be sufficiently interesting to demand closer investigation...
How nearly 300 breweries opened from the 1980s, reviving small-scale brewing and creating Australia's craft beer scene....
Queensland White Lies Brewing Company in the Brisbane suburb of Pullenvale recently joined the small but growing number of home-based commercial breweries in Australia, the first of which seem to have...
An important Australian brewing milestone was passed earlier this year, although it is impossible to say exactly when. Some time in 2014, the number of commercial breweries in operation throughout the...