[?] G Drinkers Will

[?]ve to be Patient

From Our Lae Correspondent jer drinkers in Lae, NG, who j been complaining of the high of drinking, have been wonder when the brew from the new I brewery will be available; and diat price. i we went along and had another at the brewery. lose two hard-working gentle , Messrs. Meier and Nydam, that everyone will have to be ent a while longer. Getting a /ery producing is a slow busi few months ago PIM showed a tograph of a skeleton building to-day that building is complete some machinery installed. A I shipment of machinery is ex ed within the next few weeks when this is working they ex to run their first “blind” brew.

Huge fermenters, giant vats and miles of refrigeration pipes are in, and two large water storage tanks built.

Mr. Meier explained the different steps taken in the making of the beer, from the fermenter to the finished product—about 4 months — and said that after all the pipes are thoroughly cleaned with caustic soda there will be three “blind” brews made and left to soak in the vats and pipes.

This will be done under Customs’ supervision and the beer will be run off as waste.

Mr. Meier said he expected the local price to be comparable to the South Pacific beer brewed in Port

Moresby. South Pacific lager is obtainable in Port Moresby for about 30/- a dozen, but freight costs to Lae increase the price here.