From pint and long sleever, to pot, middy and schooner By MICK ROBERTS © THE ‘long sleever’ was an impressive looking beer glass that stood 45cm high and held an Imperial pint, or 20 fluid ounces. In colonial times, when… Read More ›
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1929 beer price increase
“SWALLOW” LESS IN NEW GLASSES Black Wednesday at the Bar! ‘Tis Black Wednesday – a frothy pint costs a penny more from 6 o’clock this morning – blame [Treasurer] Dr. [Earle] Page’s Federal Budget. A pint of beer, ale, lager,… Read More ›
Glass thieves ‘worse than a louse’ at the London Tavern, Redfern
The London Tavern in Sydney’s south was built by Robert Montgomery in 1921. However, before the pub opened for business at 103 Regent Street, Redfern, Montgomery had died, and the freehold was quickly snapped-up from his estate by brewery and… Read More ›
The birth of the 10-ounce middy and pot glass in NSW and Qld
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: Over 180,000 glasses a week disappeared from the city’s 600 pubs in 1944
DURING the 1940s, Sydney’s pubs was suffering a persisting problem with customers stealing beer glasses. The problem had been around for decades, but the curious practice of ‘souveniring’ beer glasses from Sydney’s pubs had become a major headache for publicans… Read More ›
The Plasto method: How to pull a proper 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 and… Read More ›
Belfield Hotel’s singing barmaid
Frederick William Rose received 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… Read More ›
New beer serving device, ‘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 [National Hotel]. It consists of six feet of transparent plastic… Read More ›
Sydney’s early ‘growlers’ were a little expensive compared to tap beer
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 ›