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Hahn Brewery

The Camperdown brewery itself was renamed to the Malt Shovel Brewery in honour of Australia's first known brewery run and owned by James Squire.

James Squire

John Boston (who was a potential rival for Australia's first brewer); and

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James Squire (1754 – 16 May 1822), a convict transported to Australia, is credited with the first successful cultivation of hops in Australia around the start of the 19th century, and is also considered to have founded Australia's first commercial brewery in 1798, though John Boston appears to have opened a brewery making a form of corn beer two years earlier.

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Their families had been embroiled in a dramatic incident (The Canning Affair) which polarized England in 1754, the year of Squire's birth.

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