Old timers' grog?
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Whatever they could afford, beer, rum, wine, plenty of pubs around during the gold rush. Just check out the abundance of pubs in Bendigo, Ballarat, Castlemaine etc. No doubt there would have been sly grog about as well.
I believe that Dunolly had approx. 13 pubs, brothels etc. on the one mile main road during the rush.
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They also made beer out of the horehound shrub. You can still see clumps of it around the old camp sites. They also made tea out of it.
The European miners would have made a vodka from potato peelings, very potent.
That would have made me late for "brekky:"
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Dawn Patrol was probably enough to fill the MCG.
Just about anything that could be fermented.
It was even recorded that the Kelly gang (a little later admittedly) were growing Mangelwurzels at their bush hideaway at Stringybark Creek just before they were infamously "discovered"
They were making a little money sluicing gold from the creek but mostly apparently from grog made from the Mangelwurzels.
Mangelwurzels (or yellowbeets) are a kind of beet of the beetroot or sugar beet family rarely encountered today.
It was even recorded that the Kelly gang (a little later admittedly) were growing Mangelwurzels at their bush hideaway at Stringybark Creek just before they were infamously "discovered"
They were making a little money sluicing gold from the creek but mostly apparently from grog made from the Mangelwurzels.
Mangelwurzels (or yellowbeets) are a kind of beet of the beetroot or sugar beet family rarely encountered today.
There is a bloke from ABC Gardener up here that grows them. Red headed bloke, can't think of his name.
