Anchor Brewery
| John and Isaiah Reid opened the Morphett Street Brewery on Morphett Street in 1855. The brewery was relatively small, employing nine men, kept six horses and had an output of 130 hogsheads a week. Thomas Moulden was employed as brewer when the company started and brewed Moulden's Pale Ale, though Thomas left the company in March 1856. John Reid died in November 1863 and Isaiah continued to operate the brewery by himself. The financial strains on Isaiah became too much and by 1866 he had taken on Mr John B. Harrison as a partner. The company continued to trade as 'I. Reid & Co' but, by later that year the company became insolvent in and was sold to Frederick R. Fuller. Isaiah Reid started the Stone Brewery in Port Augusta later that same year. F. R. Fuller & Co continued to brew for another four years but again the company became insolvent in 1870 and the brewery closed. The brewing plant was then purchased by Charles Chambers and Frederick Blades and moved to South Terrace where they started the Dragon Brewery. The site was then used as a bottling plant by Mr T. Ryan who bottled Simms and Chapman West End beers. Mr Ryan left the site in 1874 when the West End brewery cancelled his contract to bottle beer. Henry Edmeades purchased the site in 1877 and installed all new brewing equipment as well as aerated waters machines. Mr. Edmeades had success with the new brewery winning several awards including four first prizes for his stout and numerous prizes for his aerated waters. The Kangaroo brewery in Hindmarsh was purchased in 1883 but unfortunately the assistant brewer Christopher Kuymias fell into a vat of boiling wort on Monday 29th of October and died later that night. The coroner declared the Hindmarsh brewery as decidedly unsafe and dangerous and should not be used as a brewery. The company never recovered and was declared insolvent soon afterward. The site was later used as an aerated water factory by D & J Fowlers, Lion Factory. |
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