“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 ›
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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 ›
Two Men, Two Beers, Too Much!
WHILE a number of customers were collectively ‘blowing the froth off one’ at the Crecy Hotel, Oxford  Street, on the morning of March 1, two Prices Branch officers ‘blew into’ the public bar and ordered two middies. Two noggins of the… 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 ›