Notices have gone up on the Townsville campus of James Cook University in which a person, presumably a student , announces the intention to start a Home Brew Society. It is planned to hold regular meetings where members each bring along a couple of bottles to lubricate learned discourse about the ancient and varied science of making your own Kickapoo Juice. It is hoped to launch a Facebook page as well.
On reading this notice, Little Darwin emailed a Victorian friend, journalist Pete Steedman, and asked if he ran a sly grog shop in the l960s when he edited Melbourne uni magazines which drove to drink the Government, ASIO, Liberals, anti-Semites and assorted goose –steppers when he spearheaded the attack on Australia’s involvement in the Vietnam War , particularly the conscription of young men to fight in the obscene conflict.
While he tried to flog a motorbike , a car and assorted lively magazines on campus, he did not start a home brew group. He did frequent the well known Notting Hill Pub in a bid to discover the meaning of life. However , years later , a son ran a Free Beer Society at Melbourne University and deliberately helped the Young Liberals , as usual thirsting after power, to either take over the beer group, maybe the student union, or both, with a legally binding contract that they would make funds available to the Free Beer Society, which he and studious drinking mates quickly turned into disappearing liquid assets.
XXXX ALERT : The Little Darwin sweatshop is brewing up the next exciting chapter in the X-rated Steedman Chronicles serial which will be of interest to the man on the land , ASIO, the KGB and Tasmanians .
