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As we've been looking at beer exports, we may as well look at imports, too.

There are a couple of things to be careful about. First, it's packages rather than a volume. Secondly, just because the beer was dispatched from a port in Belgium or Holland, it doesn't necessarily mean that the beer was brewed there. Much likely came from somewhere else, most likely Germany.

Though the beer shipped from Copenhagen probably did come from Denmark. And I think it's safe to assume anything coming from New York had been brewed in the USA. I'm shocked to see that any beer at all was imported from the US. The stuff coming from Copenhagen was probably mostly Carlsberg and Tuborg.

The beer itself was probably almost all Lager. That was about all that was imported into the UK. Top-fermenting styles were provided by domestic breweries.

Note that more than half of the imports came in via London. Not really surprising: London waws a massive port and much closer to the Continent than Liverpool, Dublin or Glasgow. I'd guess that the same was also true for exports. Though maybe not to quite the same extent.



Total importations of beer into the United Kingdom:—


From
London
Liverpool
Hull
Harwich
O.E Ports
Dublin.
Clyde &c.
Total



pkgs.
pkgs.
pkgs.
pkgs.
pkgs.
pkgs.
pkgs.
pkgs.


Hamburg
7,885
3,977
2,215
700
1,604
457
908
17,746


Bremen
20,827
1,075
1,351
-
-
-
3,525
27,078


Rotterdam
18,593
171
4,129
11,183
725
9,098
1,831
45,730


Antwerp
4,574
732
18
4,576
672
-
3
10,575


Amsterdam
14,718
282
5,655
-
2,754
-
3,064
26,473


Copenhagen
1,882
105
2,033
-
-
-
5,275
9,296


Christiania
154
-
618
-
14
-
66
852


New York
100
46
-
-
-
-
50
195


Ostend
4,934
-
-
-
-
-
-
4,934


Totals,1897
73,667
6,388
16,019
16,459
5,769
9,555
15,022
142,879


Do. 1896
53,257
10,179
13,468
14,026
4,997
8,250
14,655
129,442


Do. 1895.
55,429
11,868
11,775
17,082
4,079
8,282
14,130
122,645


Source:


"The Brewers' Journal, 1898", page 64.



Here are the numbers in bulk barrels:




UK beer imports 1895 - 1897 (bulk barrels)


1895
1896
1897


44,399
45,000
45,752


Source:


Dundee Evening Post - Monday 01 April 1901, page 2.




As 1 package seems to equate to about a third of a barrel, here's are the bulk barrels for each point of origin:




From
bulk barrels


Hamburg
5915.33


Bremen
9,026


Rotterdam
15,243.33


Antwerp
3,525


Amsterdam
8,824.33


Copenhagen
3,098.67


Christiania
284


New York
65


Ostend
1,644.67



It's not a huge amount of beer.

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