Beer and Breweries in Australia: Victoria Bitter, Foster\'s Lager, XXXX, Tooth and Co., James Squire, Lion Nathan, Beer in Australia  (English, Paperback, LLC Books, LLC Books, Source Wikipedia)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 41. Chapters: Victoria Bitter, Foster's Lager, XXXX, James Squire, Lion Nathan, Beer in Australia, Tooth and Co., List of breweries in Australia, Emu Brewery, Mountain Goat Beer, Lion Brewing and Malting Company, Coopers Brewery, Foster's Group, Carlton & United Breweries, Cascade Brewery, Boag's Brewery, Tooheys Brewery, Swan Brewery, John Boston, Skinny Blonde, Little Creatures Brewery, Copper Coast Wines, Castlemaine Perkins, Matilda Bay Brewing Company, Tooheys New, Carlton Draught, Feral Brewing Company, Bootleg Brewery, Ballarat Bitter, Holgate Brewhouse, Crown Lager, St Arnou, Bondi Blonde, Tooheys Extra Dry, Melbourne Bitter, Tooheys Old, Lobethal Bierhaus, Pure Blonde, Resch's, Tasmanian beer, Bluetongue Brewery, Hahn Brewery, Tooheys Pils, Crown Pilsner, Chopper Heavy. Excerpt: James Squire (1754 - 16 May 1822), a convict transported to Australia, is credited with the first successful cultivation of hops in Australia at the turn of the 19th century, and is also considered to have founded Australia's first commercial brewery in 1798, though John Boston appears to have opened a brewery making a form of corn beer two years earlier. Squire was convicted of stealing in 1785 and was transported to Australia as a convict on the First Fleet in 1788. Squire ran a number of successful ventures during his life, including a farm, a popular tavern called The Malting Shovel, a bakery, a butcher shop and a credit union. He also became a town constable in the Eastern Farms district of Sydney. As a testament to the rise of position in society (from shame to fame), his death in 1822 was marked with the biggest funeral ever held in the colony. James Squire was baptised on 18 December 1754 in Kingston Upon Thames. Squire's parents were well known gypsies, Timothy Squires and Mary Wells, who were married on 8 December 1752 in West Molesey, ...