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 ›
beer glasses
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 ›
New glasses for beer
Smaller beer glasses have been introduced in Sydney hotels, following an increase in the excise duty. The old and the new glasses are shown in this picture, taken to-day in a city hotel. –The Sun (Sydney, NSW ) Tuesday 19 September… Read More ›
Watch those grubby fingers! Bartenders targeted for bad hygiene habits
AT the height of the infamous ‘six-o’clock-swill’, Sydney health authorities had a crackdown on pubs flouting hygiene regulations in 1946. A culture of heavy drinking evolved in Sydney pubs during the time between finishing work at 5pm, and the mandatory closing… Read More ›
Melbourne-Sydney rivalry extended to the bar-room, with beer-pouring challenge
TWO Sydney barmaids — Billie Williams and Gladys Henwood — were not impressed by Melbourne’s champion beer puller, Cyril O’Brien, who boasted he could serve 1000 customers in an hour at the Windsor Hotel. Newspapers across the country reported in… Read More ›
There’s a fly in my soup… I mean, beer!
YOU know that old saying: “Waiter there’s a fly in my soup”? Here’s an Aussie twist to it. This cartoon was first published in the good ol’ Bulletin (God bless its soul), and reproduced in a swag of newspapers at… Read More ›
Beer Mug with Dark History
ON the shelf of a city bar, stands a tall grey beer mug with a history, it was used to celebrate the launching of Hitler’s Nazism. The men who sipped heartily from its ornate rim were Adolf Hitler and, a… Read More ›