The Closure of Australia's Tasmanian James Boag's Brewery in 2026, The Year of the Horse? 🏇🍺😢

James Boag's beer will no longer
be produced in Launceston

Having toured the brewery in 2016 when I was down in Tasmania this comes as sad news to me.

The Dead Man's poker hand, a
pair of aces and eights. 1881?

I kept my empty 'Wizard Smith's Ale' bottle in the hope of having another one if I ever returned to do another brewery tour, but I guess that's not going to happen now, as that particular beer label stopped being made in 2024, I now found out?

James Boag’s ‘Wizard Smith Ale’
pulled from bottle shop shelves

The Dead Man's Hand