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Beer Adelaide Books

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Digital books by the author of the website

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A brief history of South Australian hotel lamps

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14th January 2026
Explore the forgotten history of colonial hotel lamps and the legal requirement for South Australian publicans to light the streets outside their hotels each night.

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History of South Australian Tied House Hotels

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October 2025
Discover how South Australia’s breweries once controlled hotels through the tied house system, shaping what beer locals could drink for more than a century.

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History of South Australian Beer Glasses

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April 2024
Dive into the history of South Australian beer glasses and the odd sizes we use.
The origins of the names of our glasses are also busted.
Beer glasses must be one of the last uses of the Imperial measurement system still in use in Australia.



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Kernewek Lowender Swanky

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May 2023
With the 2023 Kernewek Lowender festival being held this month, I have added an article on the history of the Kernewek Lowender's own beer SWANKY!



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A brief history of beer cans

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11th April 2022
Beer packaged in cans has now become the standard off premises container, from the largest corporate breweries to the smallest microbreweries, they all seem to be canning.
Though beer cans started much earlier that most people think.



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