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Australian brews with a German accent

Tuesday 4 October 2016

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Raise a stein to the Bavarians, who perfected the art of brewing a few hundred years before Australia was colonised and enshrined the process into law to make sure it never strayed too far from the essentials: malt, hops, yeast and water.

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