Description

The Island's first brewery offered
no carefully packaged brand
name ale or beer. It probably did not
even have a name. If it did it was
'Cambridge's Brewery,' 'Wright 's
Brewery,' or possibly 'Bird Island
Creek Brewery.' And its product was
not bottled but barrelled. The creek
in question is now known as Wright's
Creek and the millpond is visible from
the St. Peter's Road in East Royalty.
It was here that the Island's first ale
was brewed some 170 years ago. Islanders'
long-standing love affair
with beer suggests that the enterprise
should have prospered, but the
following documentary trail does not
indicate success, but failure.