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Exploring the past, celebrating the present, and looking to the future of South Australian brewing, beer, hotels, and soft drinks.
This site is home to my ongoing research into South Australia’s rich brewing heritage, along with updates, insights, and stories shaping the industry today.
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I have added all the known hotels from 1836 to the present. I have tried to include a photo of the hotel if one exists as well as all the known names they have traded under.
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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Though beer cans started much earlier that most people think.
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