Home of Australia’s First Danish Beer

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The property where the OLD BREWERY ROAD CELLAR DOOR & FARM LARDER is located was selected by Danish shipwright and sometime gold miner, Jens Kofoed, in 1859.  Mr Kofoed quickly realised that selling beer to thirsty miners on the Ararat goldfields would be more profitable than digging for gold, and he enlisted his younger brother and brewer, Jorgen, to help establish the Fountainhead Brewery at the confluence of the Concongella Creek and a spring fed lagoon soon known as the Brewery Creek.  They quickly built up a successful business and the brewery’s flagship brew - Colonial Malt Ale - was sold as far away as Ballarat and Hamilton.  In time the brick, timber and iron brewery reached three stories high and employed forty men; producing a wide range of beers, cider, and cordials.