A "Free House" is a pub which is not owned by the Brewery. In WA until a short relatively recently, all pubs were owned by WA's only brewery. Swan Brewery. That has now changed and many pubs are now owned by the landlord. Swan Pubs could only sell the Company's beer. Thus for many years the only beer available in WA Pubs was, Swan Lager, Swan Draught, Emu Bitter, Emu Export, an Kalgoorlie Stout. This situation has now, Thankfully, was rectified by the introduction of a couple of boutique breweries who opened the doors to International breweries. This prompted Swan to begin to import Interstate beers into WA.

We now have more beers, both imported and domestic, than you can poke a stick at!

Cheers

Bugsy