Shut up about Barclay Perkins - Scottish beer exports
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I've been bangiing on about how much beeer (relatively) Scottish brewers exported. While here's some proof.
And what better to way to display these factss than in a table:
| Production and exports in Scotland and the UK 1863 - 1867 |
|
1863 |
1864 |
1865 |
1866 |
1867 |
| UK Production (bulk barrels) |
20,081,408 |
21,360,461 |
22,546,889 |
25,388,600 |
|
| UK Exports (bulk barrels) |
491,631 |
490,486 |
|
|
|
| Scottish exports (bulk barrels) |
47,415 |
|
|
61,723 |
66,909 |
| Scottish %age of UK exports |
9.64% |
|
|
|
|
| %ge of Scottish production exported |
5.31% |
|
|
4.92% |
5.55% |
| %ge of UK production exported |
2.73% |
2.41% |
|
|
|
| Production England & Wales (bulk barrels) |
18,005,908 |
20,374,461 |
20,276,623 |
24,134,600 |
|
| Production Scotland (bulk barrels) |
893,000 |
986,000 |
1,207,595 |
1,254,000 |
1,205,000 |
| Scottish %age of UK production |
4.96% |
4.84% |
5.96% |
5.20% |
|
| Sources: |
| “Bericht über der Welt Ausstellung zu Paris im Jahre 1867, volume 7”, 1868, page 119. |
| Sessional Papers, House of Lords, Vol. VII, Accounts and Papers, 1864, pages 20-21 |
| “A History of the Brewing Industry in Scotland” by IanDonnachie, 1998, pages 147-148. |
| Brewers' Almanack 1928 |
| “A History of the Brewing Industry in Scotland” by IanDonnachie, 1998, pages 147-148. |
| The industries of Scotland: their rise, progress, and present condition by David Bremner, 1869, pages 437 - 438, |
My apologies for the missing numbers. Some are proving tricky to track down. The ones that are there do tell a story. Basically that Scottish brewers were exporting proportionally about twice as much beer as their English colleagues.
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