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Local and independent craft brewery and taphouse located in Beresfield. Serving up some of Beresfield's best pizzas and local craft beer. Open Tuesday to Saturday, see website for times.
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🔬 Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet
Frank Macfarlane Burnet was born in Traralgon in 1899 and became a major figure in medical research. He shared the 1960 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Peter Medawar for work concerning acquired immunological tolerance: how the immune system learns to distinguish the body’s own tissues from foreign material. Burnet’s research career was centred in Melbourne, including at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute. His Gippsland connection is his birthplace and early life, preceding scientific work that helped reshape understanding of immunity and tissue transplantation.
