At Iron Pot Brewing, we all have convict ancestors. Some arrived with the First Fleet, some were sent later to Port Arthur in 1830. We’d like to say that convict history is a mandatory requirement of employment at Iron Pot, but we’d get into strife.
When creating a beer, Iron Pot Brewing endeavours, as far as possible, to use the same ingredients that our ancestors would have used. Convict arrivals like Joshua, George and Lincoln Patmore were transported to Hobart in 1842 on the ‘Leviathan’ Prison Hulk. They DID have a relationship with beer as did their cousin Peter George Patmore who reputedly drank Stingo with Lord Byron. Our Master Brewer, Shaun Patmore never met Lord Byron and doesn’t steal hops. He grows his own.
From The Chelmsford Chronicle 21 Oct 1842
Wholesale Malt-Stealing at Harlow
Joshua Patmore, 18, jobber, and David Lincoln, 56, labourer, were indicted for breaking into the malt shop in the occupation of Thomas Hewitt Quare, at Harlow, and stealing seventy-six bushels and three quarters of a peck of malt, belonging to him and to Tudor Brain Quare, and George Barker Patmore, 21, jobber was indicted as being an accessory before the fact.
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