ABOUT BETTER WORLD OUR BRANDS CAREERS NEWS CONTACT VIEW ALL Peter Degraves creates delicious alternative to imported liquor using pristine Tasmanian ingredients In the early 19th century there were very few breweries in Australia, so people drank expensive imported brands from England or ‘rot-gut’ liquors - said to send men mad. Peter Degraves was a fixer - he devised a way to divert fresh water to Hobart town and even submitted plans for improving a Hobart jail during his incarceration there in 1826. Although these two plans failed, Degraves’ plans for a brewery that produced ‘genuine beer … beer that cannot be excelled in this colony’ succeeded and Cascade Brewery Co. was born in 1832. Degraves used the sparkling fresh mountain water from the cascades as well as Tasmania’s quality hops to create the first great Australian beer. Cascade Brewery Co. was born in 1832 1832 1870 1930s 1958 1988 2018 About Leadership Brewing Heritage Culture Nutritional Information Our Contribution Careers Graduate Programs Why CUB? Our Functions Our Stories Search & Apply More News Better World Our Brands © 2021 CUB Contact Privacy Policy Terms of Use Web design by Spark Digital