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Bygone Breweries of NSW
The Southern Districts
This is the story of beer
brewing in the Southern
districts of New South Wales,
during the period of time from
about 1830, when the first
brewery appeared in that part
of the state, until the last one
closed about a century later.
Geographically, it covers a vast
swathe of territory stretching
around 750 kilometres from
the sea coast in the east
nearly to the Darling River in
the west, and bounded by the
Murray River (the border with
Victoria) in the south. The most
important of the historical
brewing towns encompassed
within the southern districts
are Goulburn, Wagga Wagga,
Albury, Narrandera and
Deniliquin.
The outward spread of
settlement from the colonial
capital, Sydney, during the
nineteenth century, naturally
was accompanied by the
establishment of breweries to
satisfy the demand for beer as it
arose in newly populated areas.
In the districts canvassed in
this volume, altogether around
eighty breweries operated in
about thirty-six towns, villages
and other places of habitation,
during the century-long timespan.
They are all tracked here
from their formation to their
demise. Their progress is set
against the general history of
the places in which they existed,
and against the broader history
of beer and brewing.
B5 size; xvi + 335 pages; comprehensive index; 79 photographs and maps
ISBN 978-0-9806209-7-9
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