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The way to get even more fun from numbers is to play with them to get new sets. Which is what I've done this time.
One of the wonderful features of the standard barrel, is that you know exactly how much tax was paid on it. In the 1880s and 1890s, that was 6s 3d. Making it a piece of piss to work out how many standard barrels were brewed in each constituent kingdom of the UK.
I have partil figures from other sources for the number of standard barrels brewed in the UK. It almost matches the ones I've calculated. There's a difference of few hundred thousand barrels. Nothing massive. Not sure why that would be.
One caveat: the figure for Ireland is very different to the amount of bulk barrels brewed. While in the rest of the UK the standard barrel gravity (initially 1057º, after 1889 1055º) was close to average gravity, in Ireland that wasn't the case. Because such a large percentage of the beer brewed was Stout, average OG was much higher. In the years just before WW I, it was around 1065º. It was probably higher than that in the period the table covers.
Beer Production 1882 - 1892 (standard barrels)
England.
Scotland.
Ireland.
United Kingdom.
1882
24,355,850
963,894
1,978,877
27,298,621
1883
23,761,606
997,981
2,121,590
26,890,778
1884
24,035,405
1,063,715
2,063,021
27,162,141
1885
24,075,603
1,078,698
2,188,896
27,343,197
1886
23,647,338
1,089,955
2,154,166
26,891,459
1887
23,872,102
1,139,530
2,174,461
27,186,093
1888
24,406,083
1,206,822
2,264,000
27,876,906
1889
24,488,326
1,266,259
2,310,358
28,064,944
1890
26,262,947
1,412,934
2,437,482
30,113,363
1891
27,266,893
1,509,891
2,523,690
31,300,470
1892
27,472,669
1,484,413
2,568,749
31,525,830
Source:
"The Brewers' Guardian 1892", 1892, page 295.
Here's the same information in table in percentages:
Beer Production 1882 - 1892 (%)
England.
Scotland.
Ireland.
1882
89.22%
3.53%
7.25%
1883
88.36%
3.71%
7.89%
1884
88.49%
3.92%
7.60%
1885
88.05%
3.95%
8.01%
1886
87.94%
4.05%
8.01%
1887
87.81%
4.19%
8.00%
1888
87.55%
4.33%
8.12%
1889
87.26%
4.51%
8.23%
1890
87.21%
4.69%
8.09%
1891
87.11%
4.82%
8.06%
1892
87.14%
4.71%
8.15%
Source:
"The Brewers' Guardian 1892", 1892, page 295.
Remeber, in terms of bulk barrels, the share of Ireland would 10-12% lower.
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The way to get even more fun from numbers is to play with them to get new sets. Which is what I've done this time.
One of the wonderful features of the standard barrel, is that you know exactly how much tax was paid on it. In the 1880s and 1890s, that was 6s 3d. Making it a piece of piss to work out how many standard barrels were brewed in each constituent kingdom of the UK.
I have partil figures from other sources for the number of standard barrels brewed in the UK. It almost matches the ones I've calculated. There's a difference of few hundred thousand barrels. Nothing massive. Not sure why that would be.
One caveat: the figure for Ireland is very different to the amount of bulk barrels brewed. While in the rest of the UK the standard barrel gravity (initially 1057º, after 1889 1055º) was close to average gravity, in Ireland that wasn't the case. Because such a large percentage of the beer brewed was Stout, average OG was much higher. In the years just before WW I, it was around 1065º. It was probably higher than that in the period the table covers.
Beer Production 1882 - 1892 (standard barrels)
England.
Scotland.
Ireland.
United Kingdom.
1882
24,355,850
963,894
1,978,877
27,298,621
1883
23,761,606
997,981
2,121,590
26,890,778
1884
24,035,405
1,063,715
2,063,021
27,162,141
1885
24,075,603
1,078,698
2,188,896
27,343,197
1886
23,647,338
1,089,955
2,154,166
26,891,459
1887
23,872,102
1,139,530
2,174,461
27,186,093
1888
24,406,083
1,206,822
2,264,000
27,876,906
1889
24,488,326
1,266,259
2,310,358
28,064,944
1890
26,262,947
1,412,934
2,437,482
30,113,363
1891
27,266,893
1,509,891
2,523,690
31,300,470
1892
27,472,669
1,484,413
2,568,749
31,525,830
Source:
"The Brewers' Guardian 1892", 1892, page 295.
Here's the same information in table in percentages:
Beer Production 1882 - 1892 (%)
England.
Scotland.
Ireland.
1882
89.22%
3.53%
7.25%
1883
88.36%
3.71%
7.89%
1884
88.49%
3.92%
7.60%
1885
88.05%
3.95%
8.01%
1886
87.94%
4.05%
8.01%
1887
87.81%
4.19%
8.00%
1888
87.55%
4.33%
8.12%
1889
87.26%
4.51%
8.23%
1890
87.21%
4.69%
8.09%
1891
87.11%
4.82%
8.06%
1892
87.14%
4.71%
8.15%
Source:
"The Brewers' Guardian 1892", 1892, page 295.
Remeber, in terms of bulk barrels, the share of Ireland would 10-12% lower.
More... (http://barclayperkins.blogspot.com/2018/08/beer-production-1882-1892.html)