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The last Tasmanian-brewed Boag's beers were packaged up in the Launceston factory today.
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Parent company Lion announced the closure of the 145-year-old brewery in June, with the brand now to be fully produced on the mainland.
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Decommissioning the brewery is expected to take a year, with the Tasmanian government interested in buying the large CBD site.
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The last Tasmanian-brewed Boag's beers were bottled in Launceston this morning, marking an end to 145 years of local production.
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In the past century and a half, Boag's has cemented itself as a state icon and often run ads about being brewed with clean Tasmanian water.
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The final longnecks exited the assembly line this afternoon, ahead of the brewery shutting its doors for the final time on November 6, taking with it 42 local jobs.
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While the bottle production finished today, the final brewing day was in September.
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Brewer Adrian Hinds, who has been a Boag's employee for 22 years, said it was an emotional day.
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"To be honest, I'm holding it together; it's quite emotional," he said.
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"Today was the last drop of Boag's put into containers; tanks are empty, everything's on a carton or pallet ready to go out to the public.
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Everyone was on the packaging line watching the bottles go through the labeller; it just shows what it means to the staff here.
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We love the place."
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Mr Hinds said for the last mashing, "everyone came up, got a sample of grain, put it in the mash tuns, so everyone had that final little touch on the last brew of draught that we did".
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"After everyone left the brew house and I was in there by myself, I just sat there for a while and just listened to all the sounds, the pumps going and then sugar going in and then smelling the hops going in.
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I didn't think it would ever happen; it's a shame it's happening, but you can't control it."
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"There was just that little bit of, 'Oh wow, I love this job and I'm gonna miss it so much,'"he said.
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Tasmania to start importing Boag's from mainland
Boag's has existed in Launceston longer than electricity.
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Originally called the Esk Brewery, Scottish migrant James Boag and his son James Boag II began the operation in 1881.
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In 2008, Lion Australia, owned by Japanese beer giant Kirin, snapped up the brand for $325 million.
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But in June, Lion announced an end to local brewing operations in Launceston, citing inflation and long-term declines in beer sales.
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Most of Boag's brewing had already been moved interstate the previous year, leaving the Launceston operations running at one-fifth of its capacity.
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The Boag's brand will continue to live on, being brewed in Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland.
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Tasmania will now become an importer of its beverage icon.
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Boag's tour guide Phil Crowden has been taking visitors from around the world into the Boag's Brewery's inner sanctum for 17 years.
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He said the skills of the local brewers were "unparalleled", but he had faith the mainland-brewed Boag's would still hit the spot for rusted-on fans.
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"The technology's got so good at the moment," he said.
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"I mean, breweries are making beers for other breweries around the world, and you can actually emulate the water from any particular place in the world."
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Tasmanian water has long been lauded as the essential ingredient in Boag's, something the brand has heavily promoted in its advertising.
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Mr Crowden said the exact mineral count of Tasmanian water would be replicated at the other breweries to get as close to the taste as possible.
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A spokesperson for Lion said the company were considering whether the equipment from the Launceston site may be deployed to its other sites.
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Decommissioning of the brewing equipment will begin after the November closure date and is estimated to take an additional 12 months.
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Publican Adrian Singline said Lion had indicated there would be no additional cost for the pub to stock Boag's when production moved thousands of kilometres interstate.
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Mr Singline said the brewery's closure was a loss for the community and the tourism sector.
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"You get tourists in, and the first two places you send them to are the Gorge and the brewery," he said.
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He said his customers would be quick to tell him if they noticed a change in taste from the new batches.
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In July, Premier Jeremy Rockliff announced the Tasmanian government was interested in purchasing the historic Boag's site.
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Well-known Launceston property developer Errol Stewart has helped drive that idea.
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His vision for the site includes a mix of commercial properties, a boutique hotel, large public open spaces, offices and car parking.
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"There is a three-hectare opportunity which does not come along very often in any CBD of any city very often," Mr Rockliff said.
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Business Minister Felix Ellis said the Tasmanian government "continued to engage constructively" with Lion over the future of the site.
The Boag's Brewhouse, a taphouse and museum, will continue to operate beyond November, with a documentary cataloguing the final days of the brewery and its workers set to be released in the future.
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