Can You Help?

Are or were you a brewer? Do you have a brewer or brewery worker in the family?

Would you like to be part of preserving Australia’s brewing heritage? Have you inherited or found some brewing books/notebooks or similar among your family heirlooms? Perhaps a personal diary which recorded the brews?

 

I am currently researching for my third book on recreating historic Australian beers and I would like help from any of you who may have had relatives who worked in breweries and have any old brewing information. Items of interest would be details of materials used, amounts and types of malt, sugars, hops, plus the process details of each brew, i.e. the information needed to recreate a beer.

 

Taking Queensland for example, in my research to date, I have found the following Queensland brewers from the first half of the 20th century. Are you a descendant of any of these people?

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Queensland (Bulimba) Brewery - Axel Schack-Steenberg, and Gerald Cecil O’Beirne both head brewers; William Gooley, Vincent Gooley and, W. P. Gooley Perkins & Co. Brewery (Toowoomba and Brisbane); A. T. (Tom) Holmes, Castlemaine Brewery; Edmund T Meagher, later John and Leslie Breheny, Silverstream Brewery – Toowoomba. Castlemaine Perkins and other Brisbane breweries are also of interest.

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I am also looking for information about the Ballarat Brewing Company, Volum in Geelong and despite checking out the CUB archive in Abbotsford, any 19th or 20th century production information for the Richmond, Victoria, Carlton and Abbotsford breweries would also be welcome.

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Some other breweries not covered in my books so far, like the South Australian Brewery Co., other Adelaide breweries, Newcastle - Castlemaine, Maitland, Grafton, Lismore &c.

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If you have any information that you think might help in my quest I would love to hear from you, please contact me. tritun.books@gmail.com

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