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| 19 March 2007 |
| Cascade Brewery |
| In 1824 Peter Degraves founded Cascade Brewery with the vow to 'produce genuine beer, which cannot be excelled within the colony'. Today after more than 180 years, Cascade Brewey still produces beer. |
Today we visit a brewery - a place for making beer. Listen for 'when words' - words that tell us when things happened. NICOLE SMITH: (Senior Guide, Cascade Brewery) This building actually started off as a sawmill and Peter Degraves in his foresight saw that it needed to be reverted into a brewery. So he saw the need for some good alcohol, so he got out of jail after 5 years of being put in there for debts incurred back in England and when he got out of jail he got granted 20 convict men and they actually set about building the saw mill and reverting it into a brewery. From 1824, I guess, as I have already mentioned, the brewery was a saw mill, turned into a brewery, from 1832 the first beer was available to the public - the Pale Ale that we still have running today. Peter Degraves, the founder of the brewery, went to jail. The 'when words' help us to understand the order of events in his life. He got out of jail 5 years after being put in there - after. When he got out of jail- when. From 1824 - from. Listen for more 'when' words. Ever since then it's just gone from strength to strength. In 1967 was pretty bad here for us, we had bush fires come through. Not only just for the brewery, but for the whole of Hobart and the whole of Southern Tasmania. So a lot of the brewery got destroyed in that. Fortunately they were able to rebuild it just within 3 months and one day. They were very quick on that. They finally got it back and running and we have just been going from strength to strength ever since. In 1967… Within three months... They finally got it running, going from strength to strength ever since. 'When' words like these help you understand the order and time of events. Nicole is talking about the beer they make. Listen for the different forms of 'proDUCE'. We produce nine beers and five ciders here now. The ciders are produced in the beverage company opposite the brewery. The beers that we produce are ranging from your dark, luscious stouts to your nice bright bubbly blonde beer that we have which is really a good summer beer. So we have a nice little variety. A nice range. We also produce every year a special beer called "First Harvest", which is produced with fresh hops of the year. So we try to cater for everybody. The fact that we actually produce our own malt here is very different from other breweries. We are the only ones in Australia to produce it on-site. I guess it's not only the only taste of the actual produce and the quality that it is, it's the fact that it's such an iconic brand. It's ingrained into Tasmania's history and that's where Hobart has been born from - it's been born out of Cascade Brewery. She says produce, produced and PROduce. This is one of many English words that are said differently when they are a noun or a verb. We produce beer. The taste of the produce is good. The verb has stress on the second syllable - proDUCE. The noun has stress on the first syllable. PROduce. There are many other examples in English OBject, obJECT SUBject, subJECT PERmit, perMIT UPset, upSET SURvey, surVEY, PROtest, proTEST. You'll find all these and more on our website, and you can hear how they are pronounced as well. Listen to Nicole talk about what happened at the Brewery during the Great Depression - the hard years of the 1930s. During the Great Depression when not a lot of people had work down in Hobart the unemployed were actually invited up to the brewery so they could have a free beer each night. The reason being was that beer was known to be really good for your health - a beer a day would keep the doctor away apparently - of course in moderation. The rules were you were only allowed to have one glass of beer and you had to bring your own mug with you. Now of course if you are only allowed to have one glass of beer and you have to bring your own mug - you are going to make it a big one! During the Great Depression, several things happened. The unemployed were invited to the brewery. We don't know who invited them. Beer was known to be good for health. It's not clear who actually knew. It was just generally known. You were only allowed to have one glass. We don't need to know who made the rule. None of these sentences have subjects. They are all in the passive voice. It's used when the important thing in the sentence is the action or the object of the action. Sentences where the subject comes first are the most common types of English sentences. This is called the active voice. All the rules for the active and passive forms are explained on our website. Finally today, why is the brewery so important to Hobart? Listen for PROduce. The whole culture of Hobart is based on Cascade. We grew up on the stuff. So iconic Tasmanian produce and it's just a fantastic place to work. It's beautiful, it's gorgeous and, yeah, we have a lot of fun. Because they all grew up on the stuff. It's iconic Tasmanian produce. And for more stories and examples - but no beer - visit our website.
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saw Saw is the past tense of the irregular verb see. Follow the link below to find out more and to listen to some examples. more information: see set about start doing something in a purposeful way Example: Let's set about fixing up the house. gone from strength to strength To go from strength to strength is to become more and more successful. Example: The team has gone from strength to strength this season. Gone is the past participle of the irregular verb go. Follow the link below to find out more and to listen to some examples. more information: go active and passive forms Passive forms of verbs are used when the person or thing that is affected by the action is its subject. The following sentence is passive, with the passive verb form is being checked and the subject 'this sentence'. Example: This sentence is being checked. Compare it to the active version, which has a different subject (the editor), makes 'this sentence' the object and doesn't use the past participle form 'checked' Example: The editor is checking this sentence. grew Grew is the past tense of the irregular verb grow. Follow the link below to find out more and to listen to some examples. more information: grow
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