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Between 1970 and 1979, consumption of beer rose by just shy of 20%. Not just that, it rose every single year. Even in the really bad years of the middle of the decade, when you had things like the three-day week. Which reduced earnings, obviously. But doesn’t seem to have dried up drinkers’ thirst for beer.
Things were looking very rosy for UK brewing. In the period covered by the table, production rose by 18%, consumption by 16% and exports by almost 3%. The only area that was in decline were exports.
One thing that didn’t change really at all was average OG. It increased by just 0.07% between 1971 and 1980. It had been around 1037º since the early 1950s.
Before WW I, UK beer exports were amazingly consistent.at around half a million barrels per year. The war interrupted that trade and between the wars exports pootled along at around 250,000 barrels. After WW II, exports remained at a similar level until the 1960s, when they began to rise, the peak being in 1975. Only in the period 1906 to 1913 had exports been greater.
UK production, imports, exports and average OG 1971 - 1980 (barrels)
Year
production
average OG
imports
exports
consumption
1971
34,360,000
1036.90
2,011,980
445,669
35,926,311
1972
34,969,310
1036.90
2,056,116
430,873
36,594,553
1973
35,338,345
1037.00
2,357,628
450,789
37,245,184
1974
37,893,753
1037.10
1,834,025
444,019
39,283,759
1975
38,238,657
1037.30
1,807,125
537,892
39,507,890
1976
39,200,556
1037.50
1,878,853
523,926
40,555,483
1977
40,404,025
1037.50
1,564,733
528,634
41,440,124
1978
40,279,059
1037.60
1,562,993
490,379
41,351,673
1979
40,595,574
1037.60
1,678,406
478,677
41,795,303
1980
40,595,574
1037.60
1,575,906
458,550
41,712,930
% change
18.15%
0.07%
-21.67%
2.89%
16.11%
Sources:
“The Brewers' Society Statistical Handbook 1988” page 7.
Statistical Handbook of the British Beer & Pub Association 2005, p. 7
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Between 1970 and 1979, consumption of beer rose by just shy of 20%. Not just that, it rose every single year. Even in the really bad years of the middle of the decade, when you had things like the three-day week. Which reduced earnings, obviously. But doesn’t seem to have dried up drinkers’ thirst for beer.
Things were looking very rosy for UK brewing. In the period covered by the table, production rose by 18%, consumption by 16% and exports by almost 3%. The only area that was in decline were exports.
One thing that didn’t change really at all was average OG. It increased by just 0.07% between 1971 and 1980. It had been around 1037º since the early 1950s.
Before WW I, UK beer exports were amazingly consistent.at around half a million barrels per year. The war interrupted that trade and between the wars exports pootled along at around 250,000 barrels. After WW II, exports remained at a similar level until the 1960s, when they began to rise, the peak being in 1975. Only in the period 1906 to 1913 had exports been greater.
UK production, imports, exports and average OG 1971 - 1980 (barrels)
Year
production
average OG
imports
exports
consumption
1971
34,360,000
1036.90
2,011,980
445,669
35,926,311
1972
34,969,310
1036.90
2,056,116
430,873
36,594,553
1973
35,338,345
1037.00
2,357,628
450,789
37,245,184
1974
37,893,753
1037.10
1,834,025
444,019
39,283,759
1975
38,238,657
1037.30
1,807,125
537,892
39,507,890
1976
39,200,556
1037.50
1,878,853
523,926
40,555,483
1977
40,404,025
1037.50
1,564,733
528,634
41,440,124
1978
40,279,059
1037.60
1,562,993
490,379
41,351,673
1979
40,595,574
1037.60
1,678,406
478,677
41,795,303
1980
40,595,574
1037.60
1,575,906
458,550
41,712,930
% change
18.15%
0.07%
-21.67%
2.89%
16.11%
Sources:
“The Brewers' Society Statistical Handbook 1988” page 7.
Statistical Handbook of the British Beer & Pub Association 2005, p. 7
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