By MICK ROBERTS © Have you wondered about that old weather beaten bloke standing at the bar in those Carlton and United Brewery posters? You know, the one proclaiming ‘I allus has wan at eleven’? His name was Sam Knott… Read More ›
Breweries
Time runs out for Jock
Jock McHale, above, famous ex-Collingwood football coach, gets a rousing send on from some of 200 men who worked under him as he retired yesterday from his post as foreman at the Carlton and united Brewery. His workmates presented him… Read More ›
Rolling out the barrels
The “Beer Barrel Polka” was enacted in earnest at Haymarket today when, following a mishap to a brewers’ waggon, barrels cascaded over the street. Some of the people’s interest waned, however, when it was learned that they were empty. – The… Read More ›
Cairns Stout
Great Northern Breweries are placing on the market a new and local brand of stout. It will be in all hotels today and is said to be “of very mild quality and suitable for rebuilding the constitutions of invalids”. Those… Read More ›
Dream Job
Sampling extract of the foaming malt which will go towards making the 25 per cent, increased ration of beer for the public, is Mr. Julius Dietrich, who has been brewing beer at Richmond, Victoria, for nearly 20 years. –The Sun… Read More ›
Beer & Water
THE Sydney Sun reports that the city council has placed a bubbling water fountain outside the main entrance to a large local brewery. Whether this is a hint on the part of the city council for the brewery employees to… Read More ›
Draught Beer Again
Draught beer being loaded on to trucks at the Castlemaine Perkins Brewery at Milton this morning, for delivery to city hotels. –The Telegraph (Brisbane, Qld.) Wednesday 13 October 1937
Hundreds watched in horror as a thousand gallons of beer spilled into a Lithgow creek
IN the midst of a beer shortage in NSW during 1948, hundreds of people stood and watched in horror as more than 1,000 gallons of beer disappear down a Lithgow creek. When Terry’s Brewery, in the coal mining centre of… Read More ›
