Turning the Sod

Follow my blog with Bloglovin The Mirror – Perth  28 August 1937, page 23 Kalgoorlie Brewery’s Record of Progress, Maker of Big K Ale and Stout & Hannan Lager ONLY one of the 19 breweries once trading on the Goldfields has survived. That is the Kalgoorlie Brewery and its record is one of continued progress. […]

The Gabanintha Beer Strike

Murchison Times and Day Dawn Gazette  -19 May 1904, page 3 The Gabanintha Beer Strike. I wonder if you chaps as writes the papers ever thinks about the price of beer a up here and other sorts of drinks It seems to me you fancy that the centre of the earth and the end of […]

The Great Beer Strike of 1903 – Victory !!!!

BEER STRIKE AT MT MORGANS. VICTORY FOR THE STRIKERS. Kalgoorlie Western Argus: 14 July 1903.  –  A correspondent, telegraphing under yesterday’s date from Mt. Morgans, states :A fierce and decisive battle has been fought in this town, the contest lasting exactly 48 hours. The miners, led by Captain Frampton, held a meeting on Friday night […]

The Storming of Grants Groggery:

Roaring Days in Old Broad Arrow 1908 A Pioneer Publicans Troubles The Storming of Grants Groggery There used to be some purple hued hours in the now decadent old ” Arrow,” in tho devil-may-care and open handed Nineties. No one cared about the troubles of today, nor went out of his road to meet those […]

Gold and Liquid Gold – book review

Obsolete Breweries of the Western Australian Goldfields:- Published by the WA Museum This excellent book is divided into the various towns in the Goldfields that had breweries (just about them all). It tells how each brewery started and about the people who ran them. It tells of the difficulties of brewing beer in places with […]