Breakfast Creek Hotel

About this audio guide

This guide to the Breakfast Creek Hotel in Brisbane follows the waterside workers, dockhands, and wharfies who filled its public bar for much of the twentieth century, people fiercely particular about how their beer was served. It centers on nineteen seventy-seven, when the brewery that owned the pub tried to change that, and the petition the regulars raised in response. Fishermen, railway workers, and police drank alongside them at the same rail. Best heard standing at the public bar itself.