Beer names

This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations beer names reliable sources. Beer arrived in Australia at the beginning of British colonisation.

The oldest brewery still in operation is the Cascade Brewery, established in Tasmania in 1824. Non-alcohol beer variations continue to increase their market share in Australia. Within the beer sector, premium beers have a 7. The history of Australian beer starts very early in Australia’s colonial history. Captain James Cook brought beer with him on his ship Endeavour as a means of preserving drinking water. Molasses and Turpentine, in order to brew Beer with, for your daily drink, when your Water becomes bad. I find by Experience that the smell of stinking water will be entirely destroyed by the process of fermentation.

Beer was still being consumed on-board two years later in 1770, when Cook was the first European to discover the east coast of Australia. Cut yer name across me backbone Stretch me skin across yer drum Iron me up on Pinchgut Island From now to Kingdom Come. Even children were to be seen in the streets intoxicated. On Sundays, men and women might be observed standing round the public-house doors, waiting for the expiration of the hours of public worship in order to continue their carousing. As for the condition of the prison population, that, indeed, is indescribable. The introduction of beer into general use among the inhabitants would certainly lessen the consumption of spirituous liquors. I have therefore in conformity with your suggestion taken measures for furnishing the colony with a supply of ten tons of Porter, six bags of hops, and two complete sets of brewing materials.

Although modern Australian beer is predominantly lager, early Australian beers were exclusively top-fermented and quick-maturing ales. Lager was not brewed in Australia until 1885. Early beers were also brewed without the benefit of hops, as no-one had successfully cultivated hops in Australia and importation was difficult. In September 1804, a government-owned brewery opened in Parramatta, followed by a rival privately owned brewery three months later. Peter Degraves starts the Cascade Brewery in Hobart. It is Australia’s oldest operational brewery. James Stokes establishes the Albion Brewery, Perth’s first brewery, which later became the Emu Brewery.

John Warren starts “The Torrens”, Adelaide’s first brewery. John Mills establishes the first brewery in Melbourne. James Stokes opens the Stanley brewery at the Foot of Mt Eliza. Queensland’s first brewery, “The Brisbane Brewery” is opened by John Beach.

Thomas Cooper establishes the Coopers Brewery in the Adelaide suburb of Norwood. The brewery continues to be owned and operated by the Cooper family, and since 2011 has been the largest Australian-owned brewery. Cohn Brothers’ Victoria Brewery in Bendigo becomes the first brewery in Australia to brew lager. In 1883, James I and his son took over the Esk Brewery.

The Foster brothers arrive from New York with refrigeration equipment and establish the first lager brewery to use refrigeration in Australia. Lager is first brewed in Queensland at the Castlemaine and Quinlan brewery. Tasmania was the first Australian colony to tax beer. Its Beer Duty Act of 1880 established a duty of 3 pence per gallon which was raised to four pence in 1892. By 1900 the number of breweries had begun to dwindle as a result of the recession of the 1890s. In 1901, just after Federation, the new federal government passed the Beer and Excise Act.