Stone Bottles, ‘Tinny’ Thomas’, and Ginger Pop. A Miscellany of Ginger Beer 1856 – 1956

    13 August 2025

    August 2025

    In this article I don’t trace the history of ginger beer in Australia. Instead I get together a grab bag of items on ginger beer over the course of the years from 1856 – 1956 and let them effervesce like bubbles in a glass of ginger beer.

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    Paul van Reyk
    My first essay on food was in Year 10 - people seemed to like it. It took me 56 years to come back to it, so I have a lot of catching up to do. My focus is on Anglo-Saxon settler culinary ways in Australia, roughly from the first days of colonisation to the 1960s - 1970s. I particularly write about stuff that has not been written about before but is very much a part of the Anglo-Saxon Australian table. I hope you enjoy reading as much as I do writing.