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Brewing in London was being performed on an ever-increasing scale. Already in 1817 there were six breweries producing over 100,000 barrels a year. By 1840, my favourite, Barclay Perkins, was bashing out over 400,000 barrels annually.
Before 1830, this was all Black Beer. It’s only in the 1830s that Porter brewers also turned their hands to Ales. Even then, they were only producing tiny quantities of them. The figures in the table, then, are almost all Porter and Stout.
The largest breweries, for example Barclay Perkins, were so impressive that they became tourist attractions, with visitors fascinated by their enormous size.
"A VISIT TO BARCLAY, PERKINS, AND CO.
On the southern banks of the Thames, between Southwark and London bridges, lies the hugest brewery in the world—the chief of those establishments which have made this great city the headquarters of malt liquor as well as civilisation. Ask any of the "fellowship porters" the way to BARCLAY, PERKINS, AND Co.'s, and there, from any one of these unaffected lovers of "heavy wet," you will get a direct direction. "There, Sir, right down afore ye!" and truly it would be difficult to miss a sight of the brewery, the buildings of which cover eleven acres of ground. But how to find out the entrance is the puzzle; you must thread your way through narrow lanes, thronged with drays, while a rumbling sound reminds one of barrels and hogsheads, and the olfactory organs testify that a brewery is not only near, but round about - for communication between the buildings is maintained by suspension bridges over the lanes. At last we arrive at the gateway; don't you see the ANCHOR, Sir, the symbol of Barclay, Perkins, and Co.? All brewers have their sign - their symbol - their emblem; and the anchor of Barclay, Perkins, and Co., is stamped, twisted, and interwoven on or in everything appertaining to the brewery - the very lamp-posts are propped up by the anchor."
"The London Saturday Journal" 1839, page 268.
Output of the largest London Porter brewers 1817 - 1840 (barrels)
brewer
1817
1819
1825
1828
1830
1833
1835
1837
1840
Barclay Perkins
281,484
320,090
357,446
305,937
262,306
315,784
382,063
354,360
400,838
Whitbread
151,888
181,344
203,842
180,843
144,104
187,070
186,206
180,512
191,980
Truman
168,757
210,967
223,766
205,655
167,542
226,924
280,075
303,590
338,773
John Calvert
98,301
99,286
105,206
90,992
61,236
Reid
157,131
183,673
190,253
170,432
127,220
150,865
181,187
162,840
195,169
Combe -Delafield
110,776
133,008
146,743
114,795
104,722
Hoare
60,307
63,377
63,883
68,381
57,073
H. Meux
124,823
111,138
108,768
90,239
60,087
Sources:
“The British Brewing Industry 1830-1980”. T R Gourvish & R G Wilson, 1994, pages 610-612.
Whitbread brewing records held at the London Metropolitan Archives, document numbers LMA/4453/D/09/010, LMA/4453/D/09/012, LMA/4453/D/09/016, LMA/4453/D/09/021 and LMA/4453/D/09/023.
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Brewing in London was being performed on an ever-increasing scale. Already in 1817 there were six breweries producing over 100,000 barrels a year. By 1840, my favourite, Barclay Perkins, was bashing out over 400,000 barrels annually.
Before 1830, this was all Black Beer. It’s only in the 1830s that Porter brewers also turned their hands to Ales. Even then, they were only producing tiny quantities of them. The figures in the table, then, are almost all Porter and Stout.
The largest breweries, for example Barclay Perkins, were so impressive that they became tourist attractions, with visitors fascinated by their enormous size.
"A VISIT TO BARCLAY, PERKINS, AND CO.
On the southern banks of the Thames, between Southwark and London bridges, lies the hugest brewery in the world—the chief of those establishments which have made this great city the headquarters of malt liquor as well as civilisation. Ask any of the "fellowship porters" the way to BARCLAY, PERKINS, AND Co.'s, and there, from any one of these unaffected lovers of "heavy wet," you will get a direct direction. "There, Sir, right down afore ye!" and truly it would be difficult to miss a sight of the brewery, the buildings of which cover eleven acres of ground. But how to find out the entrance is the puzzle; you must thread your way through narrow lanes, thronged with drays, while a rumbling sound reminds one of barrels and hogsheads, and the olfactory organs testify that a brewery is not only near, but round about - for communication between the buildings is maintained by suspension bridges over the lanes. At last we arrive at the gateway; don't you see the ANCHOR, Sir, the symbol of Barclay, Perkins, and Co.? All brewers have their sign - their symbol - their emblem; and the anchor of Barclay, Perkins, and Co., is stamped, twisted, and interwoven on or in everything appertaining to the brewery - the very lamp-posts are propped up by the anchor."
"The London Saturday Journal" 1839, page 268.
Output of the largest London Porter brewers 1817 - 1840 (barrels)
brewer
1817
1819
1825
1828
1830
1833
1835
1837
1840
Barclay Perkins
281,484
320,090
357,446
305,937
262,306
315,784
382,063
354,360
400,838
Whitbread
151,888
181,344
203,842
180,843
144,104
187,070
186,206
180,512
191,980
Truman
168,757
210,967
223,766
205,655
167,542
226,924
280,075
303,590
338,773
John Calvert
98,301
99,286
105,206
90,992
61,236
Reid
157,131
183,673
190,253
170,432
127,220
150,865
181,187
162,840
195,169
Combe -Delafield
110,776
133,008
146,743
114,795
104,722
Hoare
60,307
63,377
63,883
68,381
57,073
H. Meux
124,823
111,138
108,768
90,239
60,087
Sources:
“The British Brewing Industry 1830-1980”. T R Gourvish & R G Wilson, 1994, pages 610-612.
Whitbread brewing records held at the London Metropolitan Archives, document numbers LMA/4453/D/09/010, LMA/4453/D/09/012, LMA/4453/D/09/016, LMA/4453/D/09/021 and LMA/4453/D/09/023.
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