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Beer arrived in Australia at the beginning of British colonisation. The oldest brewery still in operation is the Cascade Brewery, established in Tasmania in 1824. Non-alcohol beer variations continue to increase their market share in Australia. Within the beer sector, premium beers have a 7. The history of Australian beer starts very early in Australia’s colonial history.
Captain James Cook brought beer with him on his ship Endeavour as a means of preserving drinking water. Molasses and Turpentine, in order to brew Beer with, for your daily drink, when your Water becomes bad. I find by Experience that the smell of stinking water will be entirely destroyed by the process of fermentation. Beer was still being consumed on-board two years later in 1770, when Cook was the first European to discover the east coast of Australia.
Cut yer name across me backbone Stretch me skin across yer drum Iron me up on Pinchgut Island From now to Kingdom Come. Even children were to be seen in the streets intoxicated. On Sundays, men and women might be observed standing round the public-house doors, waiting for the expiration of the hours of public worship in order to continue their carousing. As for the condition of the prison population, that, indeed, is indescribable. The introduction of beer into general use among the inhabitants would certainly lessen the consumption of spirituous liquors. I have therefore in conformity with your suggestion taken measures for furnishing the colony with a supply of ten tons of Porter, six bags of hops, and two complete sets of brewing materials.