The Great Northern Brewing Co., commonly known as Great Northern, is a brand of full and a mid strength
lager beer, owned by
Carlton & United Breweries (CUB), and is brewed in Queensland at the CUB
Yatala Brewery. It comes in 330mL "stubbies", 375mL "tinnies" and 700mL "tallies" (ie. tall bottles) at 3.5%
Abv or 4.2%
Abv.
Overview
The Cairns Brewery Company opened the Cairns Brewery in 1924. In 1927 the Cairns Brewery Company ran out of money and a new company, Northern Australian Breweries was formed to take over and continue its affairs under the supervision of Captain
Auguste de Bavay
Auguste Joseph François de Bavay (9 June 1856 – 16 November 1944) was a brewer and industrial chemist in Australia.
History
De Bavay was born in Vilvoorde, Belgium, second son of R. de Bavay, Knight of the Order of Leopold / a son of Xavier de ...
. It is a curious feature of the Queensland brewing industry that a great many more of its early brewers and beer entrepreneurs came from distant Victoria than from neighbouring New South Wales. The brewery produced a beer called Cairns Draught. The brewery was acquired by CUB in 1931 and was CUB's first brewery operating in Queensland. The Cairns brewery closed down in 1992.
In 2010 CUB announced a new brand of beer, Great Northern Brewing Co.,
[ named after CUB’s first brewery in the state. It revives the classic marlin logo of the discontinued Cairns Draught.
In the bottles the full strength 'original' style beers are identifiable by the Gold coloured bottle top and a white coloured marlin fish on its label whereas the mid strength has a silver coloured bottle cap with a black marlin on the label.
It was recently (2022) the best selling beer in Australia.][https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/food/drink/australias-top-selling-beers-for-2022-revealed/news-story/96e0a16f27a39c0d821cb1a62f419590?amp]
See also
* Australian pub
* Beer in Australia
*List of breweries in Australia
Beer production in Australia has traditionally been dominated by regional producers. Since the 1980s, there have been a steady stream of takeovers and amalgamations, and now the two major producers (who were once Australian-owned) are Carlton & U ...
References
External links
*{{Official website, https://www.greatnorthern.com.au/
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Cairns, Queensland