A Pub with no beer on sale for $3.5M – guaranteed to have beer

The Ingham pub made famous by Slim Dusty’s song A Pub With No Beer in 1957 is for sale for the first time in 50 years.

The Courier Mail reports the asking price to be $3.5 million.

The song was based on the poem A Pub Without Beer by poet and sugarcane farmer Dan Sheahan, who wrote the poem in the pub when it was called the Day Dawn Hotel.

The poem came about from a story that in December 1943, American servicemen visited the hotel one night and drank all the beer.

The next day, when Sheahan arrived at the pub on his horse, the beer was all gone.

Sheahan had a wine instead and wrote the now famous poem. There is now a statue of him and his horse outside the pub.

The pub has changed names several times over the years and is now Lee’s Hotel.

It is considered an Aussie icon.

The Courier Mail reports that Antonio Curulli is the real estate agent selling the property.

Curulli said the pub will be sold with all of its remaining stock including its beer. 

“It has plenty of beer now, and if you buy it, you get the beer as well,” he said. “It is being sold plus stock.

There’s also a steak house, beer garden, gaming room, bar and bistro, 20 motel rooms and retail shops.

Irit Jackson, 25th May 2021