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Birth of the middy glass
By MICK ROBERTS © IN Sydney it’s called a middy, while in Melbourne or Brisbane, a 10 ounce glass of beer is dubbed a pot. The 10 ounce glass has been a popular beer vessel in Australian pubs for over a… Read More ›
Sydney’s stolen beer glass epidemic
DURING the 1940s, Sydney’s pubs experienced a huge problem with customers stealing beer glasses. In Sydney’s 600 hotels during 1944, the weekly loss of beer glasses by theft and breakages was estimated by the United Victuallers Association, the forerunner of… Read More ›
How to pull a beer
THIS week an American visitor complained of the way beer is served in Sydney hotels – This week 27 barmaids and barmen employed by a well-known Sydney hotelkeeper, received with their pay envelopes, instructions on the art of pulling… Read More ›
Belfield Hotel, Belfield
Frederick William Rose recieved a new license to open the Belfield Hotel at the corner of Burwood and Punchbowl Roads in Sydney’s inner-west on March 14 1932. When Clive Fairweather was publican in 1950 the pub was losing glasses at… Read More ›
Pluto arrives in Melbourne
These pots have an extra good look about them, but don’t be hopeful. The picture shows a new beer servicing device known as “Pluto” in use in a Melbourne hotel. It consists of six feet of transparent plastic hose and a release… Read More ›
Money’s worth?
BUYING beer in schooners and middies in Sydney hotels and then bottling it yourself is an expensive way of buying it, although not illegal, provided you pour the beer into the bottle yourself. To the right is a bottle containing… Read More ›
Frothy beer
I wish you’d get out of the habit of blowing the froth off your beer, Bert. – Daily Examiner (Grafton, NSW) Saturday 31 March 1951.
Cut down beer bottles
– The Sun (Sydney, NSW) Monday 25 March 1946
Where there’s a thirst, there’s a way
They found a way out when there was beer in plenty, but no glasses MANY Harold Park patrons who did not have tumblers in their pockets yesterday slipped into the tea room, ordered a cup of tea, tipped out… Read More ›