Walkerville Brewery
brewery in Adelaide, South Australia, 1899-1939
Walkerville Brewery was a brewer of beer in Adelaide, South Australia, originally founded in the 1840s. The company became a co-operative, and grew by admitting hotel owners as shareholders, and absorbed smaller breweries. After several amalgamations it moved its operations to Southwark (now part of Thebarton) and by 1920 it was South Australia's largest brewing company.
It was bought out by the South Australian Brewing Company in 1939 and its facilities became known as the company's Southwark brewery. The brewery produced Nathan beer (Nathan Bitter), named after a new type of beer making equipment introduced in 1927 (later renamed Southwark Bitter by the SA Brewing Co.).
History
First phase
The first brewery in Walkerville was founded in 1847 by William Colyer and William Williams, reported by one source to be South Australia's first licensed publican, William Williams had been general storekeeper, auctioneer, first licensed victualer, landlord of the City-Bridge Hotel, and common brewer. later research suggests that he was the second to be licensed and the third brewer in the colony. The partnership was dissolved late the same year, and Colyer returned to England.
Williams commissioned architect Thomas Price in 1846 to erect buildings, including malthouse, store and other buildings on William St (now Walkerville Tce) Lot 41. A series of three tunnels running to the Torrens was used as cellars.
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