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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 52. Chapters: Beer and breweries in Australia, Beer and breweries in New Zealand, Victoria Bitter, Foster's Lager, XXXX, Speight's, 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, Beer in New Zealand, Carlton & United Breweries, Cascade Brewery, Boag's Brewery, Emerson's Brewery, Tooheys Brewery, Yeastie Boys, DB Breweries, Swan Brewery, Steinlager, Steam Brewing Company, John Boston, Monteith's, Skinny Blonde, McCashins Brewery, Little Creatures Brewery, Copper Coast Wines, Epic Brewing Company, Castlemaine Perkins, Matilda Bay Brewing Company, Tooheys New, Carlton Draught, Feral Brewing Company, Bootleg Brewery, Green Man Brewery, Ballarat Bitter, Holgate Brewhouse, Crown Lager, Waikato Draught, St Arnou, Hinano, Bondi Blonde, Tooheys Extra Dry, Melbourne Bitter, Tooheys Old, Lion Red, Lobethal Bierhaus, Pure Blonde, Bays Brewery, Resch's, Tasmanian beer, Bluetongue Brewery, Hahn Brewery, Double Brown, Tooheys Pils, Samoa Breweries, Speight's Old Dark, Crown Pilsner, Harrington's Breweries, Chopper Heavy, Wigram Beer. 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...
