Stoneware Stout/Porter Bottle

Dublin Core

Title

Identifier

Item Sm.080

Description

26 oz., stoneware stout or porter bottle with wire wrap top (corked top would have been secured with wire and a lead seal wrapper). Single tone, vitreous cream salt glaze or Bristol glaze (using zinc-oxide feldspathic glaze).
No identifying marks.

Creator

n.c.

Subject

Antiques & Collectibles / Bottles;
Beer bottles;
Bottles;
Brown stoneware;
Ginger beer bottles;
Glassware;
Liquor bottles;
Stoneware bottles;
Wine bottles.

Date

n.d.

Source

Old Smithfield township

Publisher

Private collection

Contributor

In the 1870s, stout, porter, ales and beer were imported into the colony of Queensland from overseas, particularly Britain. Merchants like Rawley & Co. of London, and Richardson's & Co. imported cases, casks or barrels of bottled beer, either pints or quarts, in glass and stone bottles. The bottles were packed in cases, either 6, 12 or 24 to the case, or 10 dozen bottles were packed in a barrel stuffed with straw.

Popular ales sold for 2/- a bottle and included Marrian's No. 3, Tennants', Bass' Pale Ale, Ind Coope's, Allsopp's, Blood's, Jeffres', Trents', Raeburn's, Flower's, Younger's Edinburgh Ale, and Berry & Co.s' Lion Ale from Sheffield.

Stouts included Pig Brand, Boar's Head, Faulconer Morgan's London Ale and A.M. Greer & Co.s' Lane's Stout. E. & J. Burke & Co. of Dublin, owned by the brothers Edward Frederick Burke and John Burke were the bottlers and sole importers of Arthur Guinness, Son & Co.'s stout.