Tankard Books

Welcome to Tankard Books
Tankard Books is a small, family-owned and family-operated publishing business, specialising in works of Australian history. Our focus is the history of alcoholic beverages, especially the brewing, distribution and drinking of beer, Australia’s national beverage.

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Queensland’s Western Afterthought: 150 Years of Ups and Downs
The vast lands of western Queensland comprise a region of diversity, beauty, excitement and romance: majestic red dunes stretching as far as the eye can see under a deep blue sky, gently rolling downs bespotted with colourful wildflowers, the glaucous green saltbush plains and the dark-green foliage of the mangrove swamps, and the crags and shady gullies of the Nicholson River, with their serene waterholes that sustain a surprisingly diverse fauna and flora.
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Beer, Mines and Rails: a history of the brewing industry in Queensland to the 1920s by Dr Brett J. Stubbs
This meticulously researched, copiously illustrated and comprehensively indexed work deals with the emergence of brewing in mid-nineteenth century Queensland
Read More... The Gold Digger's Arms by Dr Brett Stubbs is a local history but with a difference, that being its preoccupation with the socially significant, historically valuable, architecturally interesting, and colourful pub. It is at once a history of the Upper Clarence River district of New South Wales, and the story of its pubs.
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