RIOT OVER BEER SYDNEY. December 21.— Windows were smashed and beer glasses hurled when 300 workers demonstrated outside the Park View Hotel, St. Mary’s, 35 miles from Sydney, early to-night. The demonstration was a protest at the hotel’s policy on Christmas bottle beer issue!… Read More ›
Owing to the brewery employees strike the Cessnock hotels, in common with many others have had no beer on tap for some time. The other day the proprietor of the Neath Hotel obtained several kegs of beer from somewhere. The… Read More ›
WARRACKNABEAL, Monday – A dray drawn by a sleepy horse gradually collected a crowd of followers as it moved slowly through Warracknabeal’s main street today. On the dray were three 36-gallon kegs of beer. By the time it had reached… Read More ›
By MICK ROBERTS © THERE are a number of claims to the title of Australia’s “longest bar”. Sydney’s famous Australia Hotel was said to have had the longest bar not only in Australia, but in the world during the 1930s…. Read More ›
Beer rationing during the war years – and for some years after – caused a frenzied rush to the bar when publicans announced that they had secured a supply of the amber nectar. For more on beer shortages visit the… Read More ›
STORIES of the drinking habits of elephants are amongst the repertoire of Mr. Petersen, the advance representative of Wirth’s Circus. One of the animals belonging to the circus developed its unhappy failing one day when being driven from a matinee… Read More ›
IT is not generally known that, according to the Liquor Act, it is necessary that every public house must have a lamp outside the main entrance to the hotel, and it is necessary that the lamp be lighted at sundown,… Read More ›
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 ›
WHEN MR. H. C. BECKER, of Glenside, was about to open a quart bottle of beer at his home on Saturday night he found a spider about 2 inches long floating in the neck of the bottle. The quart… Read More ›