By MICK ROBERTS © “THERE’S nothin’ so lonesome, morbid or drear, than to stand in the bar of a pub with no beer”; so goes the lyrics made famous by legendary country music entertainer, the late, great Slim Dusty. Slim Dusty’s… Read More ›
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Bottle of beer in 10 seconds.
This is Mr. ‘Toby’ Sanderson, 15 stone, 12 pound (Just over 100kg), Newcastle bowler, now in Brisbane — with ‘Toby’ his personal beer glass. The nine inch high (22cm) glass holds 26 ounces (738.7396ml), and makes the drinking of a bottle of beer a… Read More ›
Boycotting beer – The Great Pub Strikes
By MICK ROBERTS © THE barmaids must have looked on in sheer horror as thousands of thirsty beer drinkers began filling the public bar of their Bulli hotel on Christmas Eve 1940. With just 40 minutes before closing time, hardly a… Read More ›
Beer Up – But Still Going Down
BEER PRICE COULD RISE FURTHER Beer price rises which operate today cover only increased excise. If an application by the breweries for a price increase (now before the Prices Commissioner) is approved, beer prices will rise still further. New prices in force today include :-… Read More ›
The Beer Glass
Morning Bulletin (Rockhampton, Qld), Wednesday 25 September 1946 BEER GLASSES at this Sydney hotel go through a hot water gauntlet but still do not come up to the health ideal of sterilisation. Most glasses are still swilled in cold water and in some cases… Read More ›
The arrival of the schooner to Sydney
The arrival of the schooner glass in Sydney pubs made big news in 1947. The Truth newspaper (Sydney edition) reported on Sunday 10 August 1947: Schooner Not Yet Over Bar – THE NEW 20 oz. schooner beer glass, with the present 16 oz…. Read More ›
Need glasses? See an Optician!
DURING the 1940s, publicans were experiencing unprecedented theft of beer glasses from their pubs. One newspaper reported more than 700,000 glasses had disappeared from Sydney’s 600 metropolitan hotels in 1944, “In an amazing wave of petty thieving”. Hotels lost an average of 60 glasses… Read More ›