Alice Springs brewery owners consider moving business interstate after break-ins
THE owners of an NT brewery say they are considering moving their business interstate after a continuing series of break-ins
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THE OWNERS of Alice Springs’ only brewery said they are considering moving their business interstate after it was recently broken into for the fourth time this year.
In a Facebook post on Action for Alice 2020 by admin, owners of Alice Springs Brewing Co said it was a “senseless and pretty much fruitless break in”.
“The place we live in these days pretty much means if I get to work and we haven’t been broken into, then I’m surprised,” the post read.
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“Due to some failings from us and also our interstate-based alarm monitoring company, the thieves had pretty much all night to look through our premises and give the whole place a pretty good going over.
“Even still they only took a milk crate of RTD’s and a bottle of gin we left in a cupboard.
“We are very aware of the shortcomings in security that our premises has and have to weigh these up against our core business of brewing and hospitality versus building a fortified safe room.”
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The owners said after a 24-hour wait for police after the incident and an application knocked back when they applied for the NT Government’s Biz Secure program — which provides assistance in building fortified safe rooms — they were “starting to weigh that cost up against loading all of our equipment into a container and moving out of the Northern Territory”.
“Something needs to change and fast.”
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