Extracts From A Barossa Heritage

GRAMPS WEINKELLER RESTAURANT.
William Jacob was a twenty-year old assistant surveyor to Colonel William Light. He arrived in 1836 on the Rapid. Jacob helped survey the area in 1836, two years after the valley had been seen and named by Colonel William Light.
William Jacob built a wine cellar in 1856 from bluestone quarried from the creek which bears his name, Jacobs Creek.
Pastoral pursuits' occupied Jacob for several years before founding his vineyard and cellars in the Hundred of Moorooroo, an area that includes Jacobs Creek, and the town of Tanunda.
The property was purchased from the Jacob estate in 1935 by Gramp's Orlando, a neighbouring family company which had been founded by Johann Gramp in 1847, a Bavarian who arrived in South Australia in 1837.
Gramps used the buildings which Jacob had built for implement storage until it was bought by a great-grandson of Johann - Colin Gramp, his wife Josephine, with the intention of turning the old cellars into a restaurant.

Extras Of A Barossa Heritage

The Landhaus - built of stone from Bethany (formaly Taninda Creek), the cottage had interior walls and ceilings of pug, made from mud and straw. The roof supported by exposed timber beams which are made from pit-sawn and hand-adqed red gum, which probably grew by the creek. The flooring was of rammed earth.
The descendants of the herdsman continued to live in the cottage for several generations, but it was eventually abandoned, remaining unoccupied for many years.

BAROSSA BRAUHAUS HOTEL
Local legend suggests that the first liquor licence in Angaston was held by a small bottle shop that grew into the Brauhaus Hotel.

What is definitely known dates from 1851 when the original licence of the single-story New Inn was granted to George Simpson, the publican who had previously had the first licence of the nearby Angaston Hotel in 1846.

William Doddridge became the new proprietor in 1852. He was a blacksmith who had arrived in April 1837 aboard the South Australian. He ran the inn in conjunction with his neighbourning blacksmith shop.

Over the years the hostelry expanded - both upwards and outwards - giving it an appearance so many typical of many old country hotels in South Australia. There were also name changes - the Commercial Hotel, Barossa Hotel, Barossa Brauhaus Hotel, Mine Host.