Author: Martin Morse Wooster

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  Sidebars - Travel Features

  Wig and Pen

  July 1, 2000 - Martin Morse Wooster Lachlie McOmish, co-owner of Canberra’s Wig and Pen, has one of the more unusual job combinations in the brewing world. When not running a brewpub, he’s an adviser to the Australian Country Party (a rural political party) on transportation issues, including drunk driving. The Wig and Pen is named after an ancient British club, and... View Article
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  Sidebars - Travel Features

  The George IV Inn

  July 1, 2000 - Martin Morse Wooster Geoff Scharer likes to call himself “the son of a son of a son of a son of a publican.” But he discovered his life’s work in 1950, when he was about 10. His father had a meeting with Edmund Resch, owner of Resch’s Brewery, whose beer was at the time preferred by discerning beer... View Article
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  Full Pints - Travel Features

  In the Shadow of Giants

  July 1, 2000 - Martin Morse Wooster The regional independents occupy the healthiest niche in the brewing industry today. While micros and brewpubs are folding almost as fast today as they popped up in the early and mid-1990’s, and while big commercial breweries scramble for gimmicks to boost flat sales, the regional independents continue to grow, though carefully.