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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 21/06/2026 00:03:00

Marked by its large red neon sign on the hill at Milton, the XXXX brewery has been brewing beer in Brisbane since 1878 and is one of Queensland's best-known landmarks. It stands on Milton Road opposite the railway station, and the brewery and its trains feature on almost all of the brand's packaging. The site began as a rum distillery in 1870 but failed within a few years. In 1877 the Fitzgerald brothers, Nicholas and Edward, sons of an Irish brewer, bought the premises with a Brisbane firm and...