Monday 7 November 2011

Scottish beer exports

I've been banging on about how much beer (relatively) Scottish brewers exported. While here's some proof.

And what better to way to display these facts than in a table:



Production and exports  in Scotland and the UK 1863 - 1867

1863 1864 1865 1866 1867
UK Production (bulk barrels) 20,081,408 21,360,461 22,546,889 25,388,600
UK Exports (bulk barrels) 491,631 490,486


Scottish exports (bulk barrels) 47,415

61,723 66,909
Scottish %age of UK exports 9.64%



%ge of Scottish production exported 5.31%

4.92% 5.55%
%ge of UK production exported 2.73% 2.41%


Production England & Wales (bulk barrels) 18,005,908 20,374,461 20,276,623 24,134,600
Production Scotland (bulk barrels) 893,000 986,000 1,207,595 1,254,000 1,205,000
Scottish %age of UK production 4.96% 4.84% 5.96% 5.20%
Sources:
“Bericht über der Welt Ausstellung zu Paris im Jahre 1867, volume 7”, 1868, page 119.
Sessional Papers, House of Lords, Vol. VII, Accounts and Papers, 1864, pages 20-21
“A History of the Brewing Industry in Scotland”  by IanDonnachie, 1998, pages 147-148.
Brewers' Almanack 1928
“A History of the Brewing Industry in Scotland”  by IanDonnachie, 1998, pages 147-148.
The industries of Scotland: their rise, progress, and present condition by David Bremner, 1869, pages 437 - 438,


My apologies for the missing numbers. Some are proving tricky to track down. The ones that are there do tell a story. Basically that Scottish brewers were exporting proportionally about twice as much beer as their English colleagues.


More numbers will follow, as I find them.

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