How Swiss chemist Leopold Nathan's revolutionary brewing system shaped the history of lager production across Australia in the 1920s....
Queensland Two new breweries have commenced operations in Queensland in the past two months. The smaller of them is Brewbake, based in the markets building at the famous Big Pineapple tourist attracti...
Much of the recent argument for the fair treatment by the Australian taxation commissioner of small breweries and their beer, such as in ARCBA’s May 2013 ‘White Paper’, hinges on a thing called the Wi...
Queensland As anticipated in my last, the launch of the new Noisy Minor Brewing Company was held in Brisbane recently, on Saturday 23 March. Rather than descend upon the company’s manufacturing premis...
When George Melville Milne died at West Maitland, New South Wales, a fortnight before Christmas in 1889, the local newspaper had little to say about his current circumstances or his past life. It was ...
The name of Harry Ellis-Kells is usually associated in Australia’s brewing history with failure, if anything. It would only be fair, however, to give him some credit for daring, and for persistence in...
The Sail and Anchor is often called Australia's first post-war brewery - but 13 others opened before it. Here's the history....
Queensland The new Green Beacon Brewery at Teneriffe, Brisbane, opened to the public on Friday night 25 January, just in time for the Australia Day weekend. The brewery/bar/eatery was packed during th...
Several, perhaps many, of the nineteenth century British brewers who began their Australian careers in Tasmania, soon removed to other colonies. Although the climate of Tasmania was ideally suited to ...
A brewing industry commentator was quoted recently in a capital city newspaper as having said, ‘We get notified at least once a week of a new micro-brewery or brew-pub opening up.’ In actual fact the ...
Australia had pub-breweries long before the Sail & Anchor -- they were commonplace in the colonial era....
In Australian beer history circles, a major highlight of the year just ended was the publication of Alison Painter’s history of the brewing industry in South Australia. Entitled Beer Barons or Bankrup...