All for one, and one for all Australia’s last family brewer invested US$22 million in a new brewery
It was an upper middle-class idyll. Wide avenues and mighty old piles built in the 1920s with scissors-clipped lawns and tidy flower beds. Into this sylvan enclave snuggled Coopers brewery. If a vintage car came round the corner with the driver wearing goggles and the woman next to him a wide brimmed hat, you would have thought: "Well, I must be Rudolph Valentino".
Even Coopers Brewery, which had been residing in Adelaide’s posh suburb of Leabrook since 1881, did everything to give the impression that time stood still. The white-washed building was kept in good nick as if Coopers, in all modesty and bashfulness, tried to keep it a secret that inside the picturesque ensemble they produced 900.000 hl of wort each year. Tough luck if you happened to be Coopers’ head brewer... Shhhh..
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