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previously known as stanley co - operative brewery and the albion brewery, the emu brewery is established in perth .
known today as tooheys old dark ale, you can still get your hands on this iconic aussie beer today. since that time, many beers have been created under the tooheys label, with current beers including tooheys new, tooheys old dark ale and tooheys extra dry .
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the great northern brewery becomes officially known as the lion brewery when the company merges with campbell & ehrenfried .
in 1980, nsw - based tooheys merged with queensland' s castlemaine perkins to form castlemaine tooheys. [ 5 ] bond corporation purchased castlemaine tooheys in 1985. [ 5 ]
“the company secretary arrived at the brewery one morning and announced that we had just merged with tooheys and the company was changing its name to castlemaine tooheys, ” bill recalls .
established by the toohey brothers in 1869, tooheys has balanced respect for heritage with an appetite for innovation for more than 150 years. the tooheys portfolio now includes the classic, easy - drinking australian lager tooheys new and robustly flavoured but refreshing tooheys old, along with the clean, crisp taste of tooheys extra dry .
products sold under the tooheys trademark are brewed at tooheys brewery. home - brew kits are distributed by lion and produced at canterbury brewery. as of 2015 [ update ], the tooheys brand was the major sponsor of rugby union in new south wales and queensland, and sponsored the melbourne cup in 2002 and 2003 .
the launch of the tooheys darling pale ale coincides with a refreshed new look to the entire tooheys range. the design celebrates the tooheys heritage, featuring the tooheys brothers john and james toohey, and reflects their established passion for quality in a fresh, modern way .
the tooheys darling pale ale is named after the first tooheys, ‘darling brewery’, which was located in sydney’s darling harbour. the brewery was purchased in 1872 by john thomas toohey (an irish immigrant) and james matthew toohey who moved to sydney in the 1860s after running pubs in melbourne to brew their first beer – tooheys black old ale .
the castlemaine brewery buys out major rival perkins & co, which owned the city brewery, the toowoomba brewery, the toowoomba maltings and a number of hotels. the new company is known as castlemaine perkins .
tooheys brewery director, mark toomey said: “tooheys’ mission is to brew easy drinking beers for every taste. we know that our adult drinkers have an evolving palate, so we are committed to innovation and providing greater choice that suits more occasions, just like the tooheys brothers did back in the 1870s. ”
for castlemaine tooheys in queensland, change came in the form of bernie power .
national foods acquires the yoplait franchise in new zealand. the hahn brewery is renamed the malt shovel brewery in honour of australia' s first commercial brewer .
the south australian brewing company is formed through a merger of the west end brewery, the kent town brewery and wine and spirits merchant rounsevell & simms .
tooheys extra dry is a dry style lager, available on tap and in bottles .
“i decided to look at building a small brewery, ” power says modestly .
tooheys old is a dark ale, supposedly similar to the toohey brothers' original brew .
the swan brewery becomes a wholly owned subsidiary of alan bond' s bond corporation .
tooheys dates from 1869, when john thomas toohey (an irish immigrant to melbourne) obtained his brewing licence. toohey and his brother james matthew ran pubs in melbourne (the limerick arms and the great britain) before moving to sydney in the 1860s. they commenced brewing tooheys black old ale in a brewery in the area of present - day darling harbour. by 1875, demand for their beer had soared and they established the standard brewery in inner - city surry hills. in 1902, the company went public as tooheys limited, and commenced brewing lager (the present - day tooheys new) in 1930. in 1955, the brewery moved west to lidcombe. [ 3 ] in 1967, tooheys bought competitor miller' s brewers located in taverner' s hill, closing that brewery in 1975. [ 4 ]
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lion nathan acquired a 50% stake in bond' s natbrew holdings in 1990, and took total ownership in 1992. [ 5 ] production of hahn - branded beers was moved from the camperdown hahn brewery to tooheys, some time between 1993 (lion' s acquisition of hahn) and 1999 [ 7 ] (when hahn brewery was renamed malt shovel brewery) .
“it’s also nice for us to be able to pay homage to the tooheys brothers and their darling brewery in this new brew. they came to sydney to have a go at brewing and took a punt on the darling brewery’s success. almost 150 years on, it certainly paid off .
gold bitter [ 9 ] was formerly tooheys gold, mid - strength, 3. 0% abv
toohey’s established their standard brewery in albion street near central station. within viewing distance of their main rival tooths, tooheys also built an empire by opening standard breweries across nsw, buying out only three competitors .
t here’s a new beer at the bar – tooheys darling pale ale – the latest offering from tooheys, the iconic beer brand which has proudly produced beers for nsw and southern queensland since 1869 – over 145 years .
lion brewery is one of the ten major brewing companies that amalgamate to form new zealand breweries ltd .
john thomas toohey and his younger brother, james matthew, join forces and buy the darling brewery in sydney. the brothers begin trading as jt & j toohey and give australia its first taste of tooheys old .
red bitter [ 8 ] was formerly known as tooheys red, 4. 0 to 4. 2% abv
the two others that power approached, malcolm davies and steve guyt, shared chant’s view that castlemaine tooheys was vulnerable .
tooheys extra dry platinum, launched in 2007, is a beer with increased alcohol content of 6. 5% .
tooheys taps into pale ale trend. media release at australian brews news, 18 june 2015. retrieved 12 june 2016
“we are very excited about the direction we are taking with tooheys but we haven’t forgotten our inspired origin. all of our packaging now carries the signature of the tooheys brothers, which will ensure their legacy lives on, ” said marler .
with the family - owned tooheys business being transferred to a limited company, the stag is chosen as the tooheys trademark. the symbol is derived from john toohey' s favourite hotel, the bald faced stag hotel in leichardt, sydney .
lion nathan enters the chinese beer market through the purchase of a controlling interest in the taihushui brewery in wuxi .
mccashins brewery is established by terry mccashin in nelson, new zealand. mac' s real ale is born .
the west end brewery is established by william clark in hindley street, adelaide. west end draught is born .
“it was quite clear to me as a hotelier that there would be an opportunity to build a brewery. ”
branching out on his own i left coors to come out to australia to run the tooheys and resch’s breweries and then in ’83 i tried to start my own small brewery but i couldn’t get the financing for it. after three - and - a - half years in new zealand with steinlager i came back to start the hahn brewery in camperdown. back then the hahn brewery was independent. lion nathan bought us in ’93 and i became chief brewer for the whole group, but i got sick of flying around all the time so i convinced lion to let me go back to the original small brewery – the hahn brewery – and start up a new brewing company, james squire .
building starts on the hahn brewery, in a converted furniture factory in camperdown, sydney. hahn premium is born .
still his research also showed him how little he knew about establishing a brewery, so he set out to learn .
taylor was still there in 1985 when bond, having captured both swan and the america’s cup, set sail for castlemaine tooheys .
blue bitter [ 10 ] was formerly tooheys blue, a low - alcohol
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tooheys new was launched in 1931 as a crisp, lighterflavoured lager alternative to the ‘old’ ales that were the norm until refrigerated lager brewing arrived on the scene. the brewery’s darker ale, in time, became known as tooheys old or ‘black’ and is one of the few surviving ales from this earlier era of colonial brewing. confusingly, the company’s marketing people decided to re - badge new as tooheys draught in the late ’80s, whether it referred to the brew in bottle, can or off tap .
for over 156 years, the west end brewery has been a major player in the state of south australia. this landmark brewery, along with our trademark brand west end draught, has embedded itself into the cultural and economic heritage of south australia .
castlemaine tooheys were represented as the appellants in the landmark 1990 case of castlemaine tooheys ltd v south australia, heard by the high court of australia. since the brewery operated outside south australia, but sold its products there, a south australian act amendment, imposing a substantial refund value for non - refillable bottles produced in other states, was ruled to be inconsistent with section 92 of the constitution of australia. due to the significant discriminatory and protectionist financial impacts that they faced, castlemaine tooheys successfully invalidated the law. [ 6 ]
one of toohey’s buys was miller’s brewery. miller’s was one of the few medium scale sydney brewers in the twentieth century to successfully take on toohey’s and tooth & co. with their brewery located on parramatta road at petersham, millers operated a number of hotels and brewed beer from 1951 until 1975, when toohey’s, who had purchased the brewery in 1967, closed it. some of the brewery buildings still stand on taverner’s hill at petersham, now bright orange and ironically a miller’s (no relation) storage .
tooth & co’s kent brewery began in 1835 and built itself into an industrial and trade powerhouse. its eventual rival, toohey’s began in 1865 and the third player, reschs arrived in 1890. these three made brewing an industrial process, building and buying hotels to sell their product (tied hotels) and merging with their rivals to knock out competition. tooth & co’s main brewery was located on broadway and between 1920 and 1978 they took over eleven breweries across nsw and victoria. the biggest scalp was the reschs waverly brewery which removed a major competitor but also gave tooth’s a big, established brewery to use. reschs continued to be made by tooth’s at the old brewery on south dowling street until they closed it in 1978. it is now apartments and the kent brewery was recently demolished .
castlemaine tooheys ltd v south australia [ 1990 ] hca 1, (1990) 169 clr 436 (7 february 1990), high court .
pioneer brewer richard seccombe founds the great northern brewery at khyber pass. he uses the lion from his family crest as its logo .
in the book swan: history of a brewery, author suzanne welborn recounts a meeting in brisbane between swan’s general manager lloyd zampatti and chairman alan blanckensee and their counterparts at castlemaine to discuss a possible merger in the lead up to the period. the talk came to nothing. welborn’s book also describes an alleged handshake deal that took place in a hotel carpark between zampatti and lloyd hartigan from toohey’s to the effect that they would look at merging if either brewery was threatened. but in mid 1981, as bond moved to take over the west australian brewery, there was no one to prevent it. by then tooheys was castlemaine tooheys as the potential saviours had made other arrangements and merged in march 1980 .
mainstream brews have been supplemented in recent years by premium lagers (both local and overseas brands) with tooheys old a welcome link to the past .
by decade’s end bond was gone, with swan and castlemaine tooheys bought out by lion nathan. the hahn brewery and sab followed in the early 90s, while power’s went to join cub, now the foster’s group…but ixl, elders, elliot and kunkel that’s another 2, 000 words .
tooheys darling pale ale is available now in 375ml bottles, six - pack, 24 - pack cartons across nsw and southern queensland, and in selected bars .
lion nathan buys a 50 per cent share in natbrew holdings, which owned alan bond' s brewing assets in australia – including castlemaine tooheys and swan brewing .
a present change for tooheys. easy drinking and hippy taste i like from smaller breweries. give little creatures pale ale a run for there money. nice brew .
early west australian settler frederick sherwood establishes the original swan brewery, in what is now the suburb of sherwood court in perth. swan draught is born .
“bernie had really good brewers, he chose a good brewery site there in yatala and very quickly took a big market share in queensland, ” hahn says .
the merged company' s products include the tooheys, hahn and xxxx beer brands, as well as the national foods group of companies that now includes the dairy farmers milk brand .
“there were 10 members, but only nine companies, ” bill says. “the tenth member represented queensland breweries, the bulimba brewery, which was owned by carlton. ”
after unsuccessful business ventures in victoria, new zealand and queensland, john settled near lismore: later james had a property near coonamble. about 1869 with w. g. henfrey john set up an auctioneering agency and cordial manufacturing business in castlereagh street, sydney; the next year the brothers began brewing at the metropolitan brewery and in 1873 they bought the darling brewery in harbour street. in 1876 they moved to new premises on the site of the old albion brewery in elizabeth street and began the standard brewery, employing twenty - six hands. before 1880 imported beer was preferred to the local product, but in the 1880s toohey' s and tooth' s beers quickly became popular .
lion offers an outstanding portfolio of australian beers. iconic trademarks like xxxx, boags and tooheys partner with newer, innovative takes on the category like little creatures, hahn super dry and james squire .
the other brewers in the association were carlton and united, tooths, tooheys, castlemaine perkins, tasmanian breweries – which was boags and cascade, coopers, south australian brewing, swan and courage .
the fitzgerald brothers form a partnership with kate quinlan, george gray and robert prendergast with the intent to build a brewery in brisbane. they purchase the failing milton distillery and much of the surrounding land .
golden amber in appearance, tooheys darling pale ale delivers a fruity hop aroma and mild bitterness brought on by a unique blend of three hop varieties. malted barley and wheat combine to provide balance and a delicate malt backbone .
loved it. tried it today at the rainbow beach surf club / rsl celebrating a family event. a great easy drinking pale ale. not too hopped up, just easy going, easy drinking. well done tooheys !
created in response to the rise in popularity of the pale ale style, the easy - to - drink tooheys darling pale ale has been crafted with a non - challenging flavour to make it accessible to new pale ale drinkers .
members of the australian institute of packaging (aip) learnt about the brewing process and the packaging of beer, and took a first - hand look at the brewing operations, packaging and warehousing at the brewery .
now in sydney most breweries are pub based boutique breweries such as the lord nelson or the macquarie. the only brewery of any size is the malt shovel in annandale, which in coming full circle brews james squire .
i was also none too concerned about the business of making it. all that mattered was that it was there, and being a born and bred queenslander it had to be xxxx. castlemaine perkins, castlemaine tooheys, it was all xxxx to me. that is until a day in 1985 when everything changed. a new sign adorned the building where the famous mr xxxx used to be. it said “bond brewing” and the address on the cans beside the image of the iconic milton brewery said, ‘western australia’ .
dear scratchers, i am trying to find some information on the bas relief sculptures on the parramatta road side of the miller brewery building – they were created early 1950s. did you come across anything about them preparing this post? love all your work !
“bondy created a corporate identity called bond brewing, so the castlemaine sign that was on the front of the brewery came down and a big silver logo went up that said ‘bond brewing’ and the head office was st georges terrace, perth went on the label. ”
lion is proud to manage australia’s leading beer portfolio, including xxxx, tooheys, hahn, james boag, james squire and little creatures. while we’re best - known for our beers, we also have a range of popular cider brands including 5 seeds, kirin and james squire orchard crush .
lion nathan acquires the remaining 50 per cent of natbrew holdings. tooheys, castlemaine perkins and the swan brewing company begin operating as independent breweries under the lion nathan umbrella. a year later, lion nathan acquires new south wales boutique brewer, hahn brewing, and the south australian brewing company .
douglas myers, acting as chairman of the lion nathan board, sells most of his 16 per cent share in lion nathan to kirin brewery company of japan. kirin goes on to acquire a 45 per cent interest in the company, creating the fourth largest brewing alliance in the world .
mixing work and play being originally from colorado, i wanted to have a place in the mountains. we got a unit in kosciuszko and put in small brewery, where we make the kosciuszko pale ale. this gives me a good excuse to fish and ski and put a brew through and still call it work .
another young brewer at xxxx at the time was ian chant who had joined the brewery in 1978. ian recalls a heady time when not only the bigger brewers were going through times of change, he says the 80s also saw the rise of the microbrewer as well, and they were looking for people to do their brewing .
in one of the most successful brand launches in beer history, power’s lager burst upon the market, quickly taking a 10 per cent share in its home market. ironically, the seeds of its downfall were sown in this success. despite a period of intense competition lasting several years, power ended up partnering with cub before selling the brewery in 1992 .
the worst thing that happened to qld beer was the acquisition of the local 4x brewery by alan bond. it was a disaster. the best thing was the establishment of the power brewing co and a great beer. unfortunately he sold out to carlton and fourex is owned by an overseas group lion nathan. i believe if our accc was any good it would force these monopolies to divest some of their breweries especially castlemaine .
beer was considered a good alternative to the hard liquor. squire was soon followed by john boston who opened in 1795. however unlike squire who lasted in the business until 1830, boston was out within a year. but the taste was there and breweries began to open all over sydney. a government run brewery, australia’s first and only opened in 1804 at parramatta (closed 1805) and by 1810 there were nine in total .
hahn had himself set up a brewery, going to market with his hahn premium lager in march 1988, six months after power. he too met with immediate success and a swag of awards. however, within months of opening, the 1988 budget came down and fundamentally changed the marketplace adding a 20 per cent sales tax onto the existing excise. keating’s “recession we had to have” followed soon after, the combination seeing off many of the small brewers .
choosing beer over oil i started drinking at 18 and started brewing at 25. i got a phd in chemical and petroleum engineering from colorado school of mines in 1970. but i discovered you can’t drink oil. the university was just across town from the coors brewery so we used to go there to taste beer – every university student wants free beer. i discovered i had a very sensitive palate to beer, so that’s when i decided i wanted to stay in that business .
records include journals; ledgers; country and and town ledgers; brewery and office wages books; minute book of directors' meetings, 1929 - 1946; property manager' s diary, 1946 - 1950, brewer' s diary, 1946 - 1977; sales records of bottled beer, wine and spirits; and portfolio of advertisements produced and assembled by goldberg advertising (aust .) pty ltd for the liquor trade council of nsw referendum campaign, including full series of social amenities league, ulva and ltc advertisements, 1946 - 1947 .
by 1828 there were 10 operating but another ten had been and gone. brewing was a tough business, with lots of competition and a scarcity of fresh ingredients to make a good product. alcohol content often compensated for quality. one such was the beer of burton brewery at parramatta (1822 - 1835). the sydney gazette described their brew as being of ‘ such strength that many who drank of it…soon betrayed that reason was dethroned and madness and folly reigned instead ’. still the breweries tried and by 1884 sydney had its most breweries with 23, however three large players soon took control of the market .
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it’s perfect to enjoy for the weekend bbq when family or friends drop in. you can pair it with anything you put on the barbie including prawns, steak or roast chicken .
tanya marler, brand director at lion believes this launch is an exciting step for the brand and will be well - received by drinkers. “in 2014 there was a massive 18. 8 per cent1 growth by volume in pale ale. our new offering shows that we are proud of our heritage, but also want to remain relevant for today’s modern beer drinker .
just bought a box and very happy with the new brew, hoping it popular and stays on the market. this is now my choice of beer
would like to know where i can purchase the new pale ale in broken hill nsw please .
it should be available in most major bottleshops. it may still be working its way through the distribution chain .
tried some today. kinda tastes like somebody put some old in my new. not sure what it’s meant to be but isn’t really a pale ale .
thanks paul – we have referred the question to lion and will advise when we have a response .
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australia will have a major new food and drinks group, with shareholders in the brewing company lion nathan approving a full takeover of the company by the japanese company, kirin holdings .
the $ 3. 4 billion deal had already received enough proxy votes to give it 97. 5 per cent approval before shareholders met this morning to vote on the proposal .
kirin already owned 47 per cent of lion, and made an offer four months ago worth $ 12 per share to take over the rest .
the deal will make the company the biggest single supplier to australia' s supermarkets .
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born in the sunshine state back in 1878, today the xxxx trademark can boast not only over 135 years of brewing excellence but also australia’s number 1 beer in xxxx gold. brewed at 3. 5% , xxxx gold is the easy drinking beer that’s big on taste, and we think best matched with big blue skies, sun - drenched days, good chats and great mates! this year also marks the 90th birthday of xxxx bitter – first brewed back in 1924 by william ‘bill’ leitner and today known as a big - hearted, full flavoured lager that stands tall and proud for queensland quality. xxxx summer bright lager rounds out the portfolio; a refreshing full strength, low carb beer that always looks on the bright side .
the hahn brewers have developed a range of quality beers to be enjoyed by modern australians. using the finest quality, natural ingredients, combined with the very latest in brewing technology, our beers are brewed for superior taste and quality .
inspired by tales of legendary australian outdoorsmen, iron jack is the story of a man who embraces the freedom and challenge of this hot, rugged country. he built his reputation on his conquests in the wild and by spinning a good yarn over a cold beer, while sharing a generous feast of his day’s catch. iron jack is a 3. 5% mid - strength lager brewed with our hot, rugged climate in mind. give it a whiff and you’ll pick up a little bit of hop aroma – give it a gulp and you’ll see the bitterness has been kept low so you get maximum refreshment, to crush your thirst .
james boag understood that there’s nothing on earth quite like tasmania’s natural purity. which means there are no other beers quite like james boag’s. the brand’s history stretches back to 1881, when on the banks of the esk river in launceston, james boag and son established their tradition of brewing excellence .
a west australia icon, emu brands have been enjoyed by west australians for over 150 years & still enjoy a loyal following in the state .
swan draught is proudly brewed for western australian tastes & has been since its first drop in 1857 .
insulated packaging made from wool has given a sydney - based ready meals company a profitable point of difference .
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formed by the amalgamation of some of australia and new zealand’s most celebrated food and beverage companies, lion has a rich local heritage .
pura becomes australia' s first and only national milk brand when national foods' new crestmead milk plant is opened. a new milk plant at salisbury (sa) and a new cream plant at chelsea (vic) are also opened .
national foods announces plans to enter the queensland milk market with the construction of a plant at crestmead. the dairy foods plant at morwell opens .
the remainder of new zealand breweries takes on the name lion breweries. after 15 years as managing director then chief executive officer, douglas myers is appointed chairman of the lion nathan board .
national foods secures the rights to manufacture and distribute yoplait fresh dairy food products in australia .
masters dairy in west australia is acquired. national foods gains leadership of the national market milk sector .
national foods is listed on the australian stock exchange. the just juice brand is acquired .
lion nathan is formed when new zealand' s largest retailer, ld nathan & co, merges with brewer, wine and spirit manufacturer and hotel operator, lion breweries .
campbell & ehrenfried sells shares in new zealand wines and spirits and purchase a 20 per cent share in lion breweries .
dairy farmers invests in an ultra high temperature (uht) production line. the long - life uht milk was a great success and the dairy farmers business gained an immediate market in the hotel and airline industry .
brian croser establishes petaluma in south australia and makes the first petaluma wine, a riesling from a goulburn valley vineyard .
new zealand wines & spirits is formed through a 50 / 50 joint venture by campbell & ehrenfried and new zealand breweries .
speight' s is taken off the market, but reintroduced after public outcry .
the lindner family establish st hallett in australia' s best known wine region, the barossa valley .
the first caricature of mr. fourex appears in an advertisement. xxxx bitter is born .
by the start of the 1920s, the dairy farmers co - operative was receiving, processing and selling nearly 23 million litres (five million gallons) of milk a year .
the dairy farmers co - operative milk co. was formed on january 15 1900. sixty five stakeholders, many of them dairy farmers from the new south wales illawarra region, came together and agreed to run the new organisation on' true co - operative lines'. the co - operative would help these early farmers to work together to effectively market their milk and butter directly to consumers in the city .
ld nathan established as a trading company in russell, new zealand and moved to auckland soon after .
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john thomas toohey (1839 - 1903) and james matthew toohey (1850 - 1895), brewers, were the sons of matthew toohey (d. 1892), businessman, and his wife honora (d. 1878), née hall. john thomas was born on 26 april 1839 at limerick, ireland, and was taken to melbourne by his parents in 1841. his father bought town lots and settled many irish families in victoria. one of the founders of the st patrick' s society in melbourne, he was a political ally of (sir) john o' shanassy and (sir) charles gavan duffy. in the 1860s he was forced to sell at a loss; in 1866 he went to new south wales and lived in virtual retirement. james matthew was born on 18 march 1850 in melbourne: he is said to have been named after fr matthew, the irish apostle of temperance .
vice - president of the licensed victuallers' association, in 1886 james was appointed to the royal commission on the excessive use of intoxicating drink, but withdrew when he felt the balance between local and anti - local optionists was upset. in evidence to the commission he said that' the system of shouting' was the cause of all the excessive drinking in the colony and that beer was less injurious to health than' the ardent spirits'. he approved of the tied - house system and maintained that the 830 public houses in the sydney metropolitan licensing district were not an excessive number, though there were a few too many in certain areas of the city .
for health reasons john went on a world tour with his family in 1902. he died suddenly in chicago on 5 may 1903 and was buried in the catholic section of rookwood cemetery, sydney. on 26 august 1871 at st mary' s cathedral he had married sarah doheny who died in 1891 survived by two sons and three daughters. toohey was survived by his second wife, a widow annie mary murphy, née egan, whom he had married in auckland, new zealand. his estate was sworn for probate at £275, 215 .
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sydneysiders, on the whole, like a drink. a frosty beer after a hard day’s work or a cold kb on the hill at henson park watching the jets is a good thing. but where in sydney do these beers come from? well in terms of brewing, not many places anymore .
this was not always the case of course. sydney has a long history of brewing beer with the first brewer, james squire starting in 1793. squire was a convict who was allowed to brew beer to supplement the colonial rum rations .
if you want to read more about sydney breweries you can have a look at keith deutsher’s the breweries of australia: a history (lothian books 1999), where much of the above came from .
mark d and laila e, two sydney historians scratching the surface of the city ...
do you by chance have contact info for keith deutsher? we have been trying to contact him for months now regarding permission to reproduce a publication of his. if you have it, it would be much appreciated if you could send it .
adena, sorry about the delay but we don’t have a contact for keith either. good luck
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eight years ago matt kirkegaard sought an interview with alan bond to get his recollections about the heady days of brewing in the 1980s. he wasn’t able to obtain the interview, and with the news today of alan bond’s death won’t get the chance. here though is an article he wrote about those days that touches on alan bond’s influence on brewing the continues today…
reaching the legal drinking age in the 80s, i was more concerned with the volume than the quality of beer available. there weren’t too many decisions to be made in my salad days of beer drinking. none of this mid - strength, imported, low - carb, nonsense. jug or stubby was about it .
fourth generation brewer bill cooper had become the managing director of the family company in 1977. bill recalls that at the start of the 80s there were 10 members of the industry group, australian associated brewers .
there had been much speculation in the late 70s about the possible purchase of many of the major breweries and swan brewing was not immune. during 1980 robert holmes a court bought up two million shares – three per cent of the company – and by december 1980 alan bond’s residential developments pty ltd also owned over 10 per cent of the company .
with concerns about takeovers rife, much talk in the industry was spent planning how to forestall outside takeovers. it seems the brewers figured that it was better to unite than fall to outsiders .
lion nathan’s bill taylor was brewing at castlemaine in brisbane at the time and recalls the merger taking place with little fanfare .
there may have been little fanfare but bill says that the mergers were an important part of the evolution of australia’s brewing business .
“it was a merger between two significant brewing companies in queensland and new south wales, ” bill says .
“there was synergy there. castlemaine was selling beer 2, 000 kilometres north in cairns but not 100 kilometres south in tweed heads. ”
“back then that was the biggest takeover in australian corporate history, ” bill says now. “it was more than a billion dollars, and there had never been a billion dollar deal in australian business at that time. ”
at the time, the deal shook up the brewing world – or at least the world of beer drinkers. for taylor it shows how ingrained our beers were in our psyche then .
“it’s interesting, people wouldn’t care about that sort of change if it was a pair of shoes, a camera or a washing machine or a refrigerator. if it was petrol no one would care, ” he muses .
“but for some reason beer really has this emotional connection with people, or at least it did. i’m not sure if it does any more, but it did. ”
“i got invited to join a number of start - ups in the 80s but i guess i recognised that you can have a passion for brewing, but at the end of the day it’s a unit cost business, ” he said .
“my gut told me that a lot of people were going to go out there and get small breweries, pub breweries, up and running and were not going to succeed. ” he declined the offers .
still, he harboured some reservations about the new brewing monoliths that were forming, including his employer .
“i had the feeling at the time that a lot of people in the company thought castlemaine had an unassailable position, but my personal view was this wasn’t the case .
“i felt that there was a time for change and that time was not too far away. ”
as power describes it, he had several hotels in queensland from far north in the cape right down to the gold coast and he sold xxxx. he is matter of fact in describing the situation faced by hoteliers at the time .
“you basically did what you were told, ” he says. “if you were a lessee of a hotel, you didn’t sell the opposition beer, there’s no question about that .
“in those days if you were with a tied house, that was all you sold. you only sold exactly what castlemaine perkins gave you. ”
conditions got even tougher just before christmas 1985 when castlemaine changed the terms of credit it extended to hoteliers from 30 days to seven, with cub following suit a week later .
“it almost sent a large number of hoteliers to the wall. it was absolutely devastating, as you can imagine, at christmas when you had your big buy in and were relying on 30 days credit. ”
it was the last straw for power who resolved to do something about it .
learning that philippines brewer san miguel had a small brewing plant in storage on guam that they weren’t going to go ahead with, he made inquiries of the company. it turned out that the plant had been badly stored and the equipment damaged and worthless. still, his investigations showed him two things. there was a lot of equipment out there and, more importantly, there was a market .
“it became quite clear to me that there was a lot of discontent in the marketplace. hoteliers and others were angry, frustrated and didn’t like the company, or both companies in fact. ”
he contacted andrew crook, former head brewer at xxxx and a man power describes as the doyen of australian brewers. crook put him in contact with a dream team of international brewers and three young employees at castlemaine .
suddenly ian chant, the man who had been refusing an increasing number of offers to start breweries because of concerns about their viability, got an offer he couldn’t refuse .
“most of these people had maybe a couple of million dollars at the absolute maximum, and they thought they could do it on a shoestring, ” he said .
“when this one with bernie came up, suddenly we had a situation where you had a hotelier who had a number of distribution outlets, but more to the point he had a plan to secure funds. ”
“when bernie had a talk to us we shared the vision and we had the same feeling about what was going to happen in the industry .
“and we decided that we were going to play a part in it. ”
“the facts are that we ran out of beer, literally on the first day, and never caught up, ” is how power describes the situation .
“what we should have done was focussed on our state so we could supply it properly and manage it properly. ”
power’s assessment is backed up by another of the 80s’ brewing mavericks who drew swords against the might of the large breweries, chuck hahn .
“if bernie had been less ambitious he could have become the leading queensland brewer, but he wanted to take on the nation. ”cover _ powers. jpg
this era of beer and brewing cannot truly be captured in such a short space. the histories of beers are also the histories of people, and they are compelling stories. but what is the legacy of the period ?
“i think from the consumer’s point of view it’s opened up the country, there’s a wider variety of beers available to the consumer – all that occurred opened up the markets, ” he says .
“we used to sell beer in cairns, but we wouldn’t sell it past tweed heads. i don’t know why. was it the fear of the parochial consumer, did we think that new south welshmen wouldn’t drink a fourex ?
“all that’s sort of broken down now and the turning point seemed to be the 80s, so the consumer i think has been the big winner. ”
ian chant sees the social changes that took place, but he also looks at the period with a pride common to all who worked on the power’s project.
tooheys is a brewery in the suburb of lidcombe , in sydney , new south wales , australia . it produces beers and ciders under the tooheys and hahn brewery trademarks , and is part of the lion beverages group which was acquired by the japanese kirin company in 2009 . 
tooheys is a brewery in the suburb of lidcombe, in sydney, new south wales, australia. it produces beers and ciders under the tooheys and hahn brewery trademarks, and is part of the lion beverages group which was acquired by the japanese kirin company in 2009.
tooheys is a brewery in the suburb of lidcombe, in sydney, new south wales, australia. it produces beers and ciders under the tooheys and hahn brewery trademarks, and is part of the lion beverages group which was acquired by the japanese kirin company in 2009.