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Bygone Breweries of NSW
The Hunter River District
This is the story of beer
brewing in the Hunter River
district, from the beginnings of
the industry around 1830 until
the sole remaining brewery
closed a century later.
The story especially concerns
Maitland and Newcastle,
the district’s most important
centres of population.
Free settlement in New South
Wales began to spread beyond
Sydney and the Cumberland
Plain in the 1820s. In the Hunter
River district, natural advantages
including a great extent of
good soil and the availability
of water carriage allowed the
development of agriculture,
and the settlement of a larger
population than was possible in
inland districts suited only to the
grazing of sheep and cattle.
New breweries naturally were
established to supply the needs
of the populace in the newlysettled
districts.
The first breweries to operate
in New South Wales beyond
the Sydney district appeared
probably in the Hunter River
district. Brewing had been
adopted with great enthusiasm
in its then main town, Maitland,
by the mid-1830s.
This book is essential reading for
anyone interested in the history
of beer brewing, and will also
appeal to those with a more
general interest in the history
of the important Hunter River
district.
B5 size; xi + 135 pages; comprehensive index; 26 photographs and maps
ISBN 978-0-9806209-5-5
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