Captain Cook took over 4 tonnes of beer with him when he sailed from England in 1768. It lasted only 1 month!

Controversial British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and Royal Navy captain Cook, currently under pressure to have much of his historical job performance reassessed in the reflective light of time, does have some strong credentials in the support of the beer industry!

Captain Cook had a strong belief that beer maintained the robust health of his seamen, (the human variety not the fluids of life. Mind you, we know plenty of craft brewers plying their trade in the craft breweries around this planet who would argue their beer is good for the health of the latter).

Captain Cook believed it prevented scurvey in his crew. When he sailed from England in August 1768 upon the Endeavour, the visionary skipper took with him over four tonnes of beer (250 x 20 litre barrels). Records show it lasted only one month!

Captain Cook, also brewed the first beer in New Zealand. It was made from molasses and bittered with what is thought to be Manuka leaves