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When throwing together a chapter of my latest wonderful book, Austerity, yesterday, I was shocked to realise that I'd never properly harvested the figures for beer imports into the UK. A shocking omission.

Something I promptly corrected. Spending an hour of my free day on Brewers' Almanack data extractions. Well worth it. Every number collected will come in useful someday. That's proived true so far.

Only the second half of the table is worth attention. The top half is clearly just Guinness Extra Stout. Technically an import. But not necessarily in drinkers' perception. That's not even all the Guinness sold in the UK. Their Park Royal brewery in London served the bottom half of the country.

Other than Guinness, the imports all look like Lager. Mostly from Denmark. So Carlsberg and Tuborg.With Dutch beer rising at the end. Which seems to correspond with Allied Breweries' purchase of Oranjeboom in 1967. Coincidence?

Those Dutch imports can't be Heineken, as you might expect. At this point, Heineken Pils, very unusually, was brewed under licence in the UK.

Weird how imports from Czechoslovakia collapse in 1968. I wonder why that was? And that beer being imported from Norway - what was that? I can't remember seeing Norwegian beer in the UK.

In case you get excited about the Belgian beer available back then, from what I see in the Whitbread Gravity Book, it was Stella, Lamot Pils and Ekla Pils.



UK beer imports 1961 -1969


Country of origin
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969


Irish Republic
1,329,752
1,245,451
1,215,539
1,281,126
1,215,168
1,240,440
1,277,257
1,313,038
1,252,844


Commonwealth Countries
1,740
2,303
3,793
3,007
3,344
2,226
2,738
2,890
2,730


Total Commonwealth Countries
1,331,492
1,247,758
1,219,332
1,284,133
1,218,512
1,248,066
1,279,995
1,315,928
1,255,574


Denmark
178,975
148,018
149,974
159,164
143,189
156,147
178,892
195,370
215,136


W. Germany
8,926
7,601
9,805
13,925
12,485
18,254
20,487
28,247
36,382


Netherlands
28,077
21,212
23,321
28,245
28,363
28,836
37,734
63,375
81,745


Belgium
8,907
8,391
5,303
5,803
5,053
5,287
5,752
4,993
4,770


Norway
2,390
2.308
3,887
4,491
6,081
5,344
5,945
5,109
6,327


Czechoslovakia
1,083
1,038
922
1,391
1,276
529
400
601
999


Sweden
670
578
1,112
459
460
863
226
112
591


Other Foreign Countries
655
589
853
1,392
1,166
3,352
1,607
2,866
5,332


Total Foreign Countries
229,689
189,795
195,177
214,870
198,073
218,612
251,013
300,673
351,284


Total bulk barrels
1,561,181
1,437,553
1,414,509
1,499,003
1,416,585
1,467,278
1,531,038
1,616,001
1,606,858


Source:


“1971 Brewers' Almanack”, page 55.






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