Matso's Broome Brewery
Broome, WA, Australia · Est. 1997
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Why this matters
A ginger beer from the remote Kimberley that went national. Australia will absolutely make a brewery famous for the least serious thing it makes.
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Timeline
- 2018Bought by Gage Roads
Gage Roads buys the Broome brewery for A$13.25 million in 2018. The parent later renamed itself Good Drinks Australia, which is why this brewery's owner appears under a name that did not exist when the deal was done.
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Beers
Matso's Ginger Beer
Year-RoundAlcoholic Ginger Beer
From a former bank building in Broome, two thousand kilometres from the nearest city. It became a national brand on ginger, in a country that mostly drinks lager.
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How it changed hands
1 recorded move- 1997Founded
- 2018Bought by Gage Roads
Gage Roads buys the Broome brewery for A$13.25 million in 2018. The parent later renamed itself Good Drinks Australia, which is why this brewery's owner appears under a name that did not exist when the deal was done.
Today the chain tops out at Good Drinks Australia.
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Sources
- foundedConfirmed
Matso's Broome Brewery was founded in 1997.
Matso's Broome Brewery — founding and location · gooddrinks.com.au
NewsMedium reliabilityAccessed 2026-08-07Reviewed 2026-08-07Conflict. Official history uses 1997; some older accounts date the Peirson-Jones operation to 2000.
Only the claims above are sourced. Everything else on this page is the archive's own research and has not yet been tied to a document — which is worth knowing rather than hiding.
Straight answers
Common questions about Matso's Broome Brewery
- Who owns Matso's Broome Brewery?
- Matso's Broome Brewery is owned by Good Drinks Australia. Matso's Broome Brewery is based in Broome, WA, Australia.
- Is Matso's Broome Brewery still independent?
- No. Matso's Broome Brewery is owned by Good Drinks Australia and is no longer independent.
- When was Matso's Broome Brewery acquired?
- 2018. Gage Roads buys the Broome brewery for A$13.25 million in 2018. The parent later renamed itself Good Drinks Australia, which is why this brewery's owner appears under a name that did not exist when the deal was done.
- When was Matso's Broome Brewery founded?
- Matso's Broome Brewery was founded in 1997 in Broome, WA, Australia.
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