RED DRAGON INN is now a Certified Organic Processor (Certified by NASAA P2567) This makes RED DRAGON INN Organic Ginger Beer one of only four Certified Organic Ginger Beers in the World - the others being two in U.K. and one in N.Z.

Red Dragon Inn's organic ginger beer is the only one to be Raw, living and fermented in bottle.  


Red Dragon Inn evolved purposefully from a Sunday Market stall to an ethical business of Organic beverage processing and wholesaling to all parts of Australia. Richard Patton established a permanent stall at The Channon Market in early 1980 supplying fruits vegetables and herbs from his property Warra Warra Organic Farm, 210 acres on a ridge in the border ranges of northern NSW. At 370 metres adjacent to the Border Ranges National Park it has clean soil, clean air and catchment controlled clean water.

The Channon Market - Australias first country market - is situated in a little village just north of Lismore in northern N.S.W. The market provided a large part of Richard's social life and wanting to help the community and emerging certified organic growers he decided to sell traditional and own invention organic drinks at market using farm fruits and herbs.

The name Red Dragon Inn or originally "Ye Olde Red Dragon Inn" was a skit on the English Red Lion Inn 'pub' that Richard grew up near to in England. Richard needed to decorate his previously unnamed drinks and fruit stall for a medieval fair in Nimbin. There was jousting and there was a fully decked out medieval "Ye Olde Red Dragon Inn" with Richard looking like a skinny friar tuck with hair. The name stuck and is now registered as a business name for the commercial operation.

Richard has been, and still is, a permanent stall holder at The Channon, Byron Bay, and Bangalow markets for 30 years now, ie since they began.

RED DRAGON INN traditional brewed in bottle organic ginger beer soon became an icon of the Northern Rivers marketplace. Today a couple of generations of tourists from all over Australia and internationally know of RED DRAGON INN Organic Ginger Beer from its presence at markets and festivals in the region.

Observing world events and sociological behaviours from his mountain top farm for 20 years Richard decided in around 2000 that he had to act within the mainstream marketplace to help move local society to a more sustainable and empowered future; by offering people clean, high quality, locally sourced, nutritious delicious and energetically enhanced drinks as a choice from the predominantly denatured energergetically draining, low nutritional value, chemically poisoned drinks on offer from the multinational and other unethical Corporations.

Richard felt that by raising nutritional and energetic (eg. Chi, Prana or life force) qualities in food, allied with appropriate information (as per this website), he could help raise people's awareness of choices in the food and drinks they consume. This would aid regional sustainability issues and eventually lead to greater individual and regional empowerment to better shape the future we all want.

By 1 January 2003 Richard was able to supply RED DRAGON INN Organic Ginger Beer to local retail outlets, processed in a new purpose built kitchen near Lismore in northern NSW. Now, in 2010 RDInn's organic ginger beer is supplied to a limited range of shops all over Australia.

RED DRAGON INN started from a market stall as a grass roots biz and intends to keep in contact with these roots. Thus it still maintains a market stall at The Channon, Byron Bay and Bangalow Sunday markets, which offers organic Ginger Beer on tap or in bottle and other locally sourced organic drinks such as Mulberry Crush, Lemon Myrtle and rosewater Iced Tea, Lemon Squash and other experimental and seasonal drinks.

Van photos show the First Red Dragon Inn van painted by Connie Flak, a German artist visiting, the second by Gis Meyer an Australian artist from Byron and the third (current) is a 100% gas powered van not yet painted. Thanks girls for awesome artworks to drive around the Northern Rivers in.