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Castlemaine Perkins

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Type
  
Wholly Owned Entity

Founded
  
1878

Phone
  
+61 7 3361 7597

Industry
  
Beverages

Products
  
Beers and lagers

The Castlemaine Perkins building, at the top is a blue sky and white clouds, in the middle is a building with orange-brown walls, with white pillars and windows, with a flag pole at the top and four red X’s in a highest center building wall with a white painted wall with a word written “MILTON BREWERY” at the bottom is trees and street lights.

Headquarters
  
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Parent
  
Lion(Kirin Brewery Company)

Address
  
185 Milton Rd, Milton QLD 4064, Australia

Hours
  
Closed now Monday11AM–5PMTuesday11AM–5PMWednesday11AM–5PMThursday11AM–5PMFriday11AM–5PMSaturday11AM–5PMSundayClosed

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Castlemaine Perkins is a brewery located in Milton, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It is a wholly owned entity of the Japanese-controlled Lion company. Operations began in 1878 and continue today. Castlemaine Perkins is the home of the XXXX beer brand.

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History

At the top is a blue sky and white clouds, at the left is a hillside with large roots, trees and bushes, in the middle is Castlemaine Perkins building has white wall roof, a brown brick wall, and a white painted wall with dark brown at the bottom in the ground floor in front is a highway and a white tall tall building at the back, at the right is a cyan building with large mirror windows and a blue bus.

In 1877, brothers Nicholas Fitzgerald and Edward Fitzgerald bought the site of a failing distillery and created a brewery, which they named after an existing brewery that they owned in Castlemaine, Victoria in the Victorian goldfields. They began to brew beer there in the following year and the brewery continues production to this day. The first beverage was called XXX Sparkling Ale.

In 1866, Patrick Perkins started the Perkins Brewery in Toowoomba. In 1872, he later extended his operations to Brisbane with the purchase of the City Brewery in 1872.

The company restricted its operations entirely to brewing by 1916. XXXX was introduced with new advertising campaign in 1924 after the brewery employed German brewer, Alhois William Leitner. The advertising included a depiction of a little man wearing a suit with a smile, a wink and a boater hat. The so-called 'Fourex Man' soon became one of the most recognised symbols in Queensland.

In 1928 (long after the death of Patrick Perkins in 1901), the Perkins brewing company was bought by the Castlemaine Brewery with new company being known as Castlemaine Perkins Limited.

Castlemaine Perkins was acquired in 1992 by drinks conglomerate Lion Nathan.

Building

The large, brick brewery is located on Milton Road opposite the Milton railway station, and is a prominent landmark visible in the surrounding suburbs. In particular the XXXX red neon sign is mounted on the top of the building. The side of the building also a neon XXXX man on the side (visible on Milton Road when travelling out of the city).

The brewery building, Milton Railway Station and trains feature on almost all XXXX packaging directly below the XXXX logo. Over the years bottle labels have depicted steam, diesel and electric trains. Tours of the brewery are regularly run for groups.

Beverages

Castlemaine's signature beer, XXXX Bitter (despite its name a lager), was introduced in 1924. The XXXX had been used for a sparkling ale since 1878.

XXXX Summer Bright Lager is a 4.2% abv low carb pale lager.

References

Castlemaine Perkins Wikipedia
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