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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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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.
More... (http://barclayperkins.blogspot.com/2018/06/uk-beer-imports-1895-1897.html)