Irish brewery numbers

Time for more stuff about Ireland. Numbers. Haven't had many of them for a while. Irish brewery numbers, lets go with that.

Where to start? How about the 19th century. I've loads of good numbers for that. If you're good I'll move on to the 20th century, for which I've even more numbers. No, don't thank me. It's my contribution to the well-being of the world.

I know you're really excited to see them, so here they are in all their numbery glory . . . numbers:

Irish breweries and their output 1820 - 1901
Year	malt consumed (thousands of bushels)	No. of breweries	estimated output (barrels)	average output per brewery	UK beer production (barrels)	% brewed in Ireland
1820	1,321		660,500
1821	1,205		602,500
1822	1,396		698,000
1823	1,498		749,000
1824	1,366		683,000
1825	1,337		668,500
1826	1,411		705,500
1827	1,513		756,500
1828	1,403		701,500
1829	1,343		671,500
1830	1,131		565,500
1831	1,494	215	747,000	3,474
1832	1,543	216	771,500	3,572
1833	1,683	231	841,500	3,643
1834	2,005	240	1,002,500	4,177
1835	1,830	245	915,000	3,735
1836	2,033	251	1,016,500	4,050
1837	1,801	248	900,500	3,631
1838	1,934	243	967,000	3,979
1839	1,814	231	907,000	3,926
1840	1,279	191	639,500	3,348	16,057,591	3.98%
1841	1,030	166	515,000	3,102	15,936,421	3.23%
1842	993	145	496,500	3,424	14,680,815	3.38%
1843	1,010	138	505,000	3,659	14,431,267	3.50%
1844	1,095	122	547,500	4,488	14,294,118	3.83%
1845	1,277	115	638,500	5,552	14,790,006	4.32%
1846	1,465	118	732,500	6,208	15,062,383	4.86%
1847	1,233	109	616,500	5,656	16,415,675	3.76%
1848	1,280	101	640,000	6,337	14,649,395	4.37%
1849	1,205	96	602,500	6,276	14,691,734	4.10%
1850	1,165	95	582,500	6,132	15,478,569	3.76%
1851	1,268	97	634,000	6,536
1852	1,266	98	633,000	6,459
1853	1,308	97	654,000	6,742
1854	1,315	101	657,500	6,510
1855	1,376	104	688,000	6,615
1856	1,542	107	771,000	7,206
1857	2,084	104	1,042,000	10,019	17,984,773	5.79%
1858	1,918	102	959,000	9,402
1859	2,373	109	1,186,500	10,885
1860	2,280	109	1,140,000	10,459	20,340,096	5.60%
1861	2,120	93	1,060,000	11,398
1862	2,436	108	1,218,000	11,278
1863	2,365	104	1,182,500	11,370	20,081,408	5.89%
1864	2,536	95	1,268,000	13,347	21,360,461	5.94%
1865	2,749	90	1,374,500	15,272	22,546,889	6.10%
1866	3,001	91	1,500,500	16,489	25,388,600	5.91%
1867	3,005	87	1,502,500	17,270
1868	2,872	81	1,436,000	17,728
1869	3,001	80	1,500,500	18,756
1870	3,403	80	1,701,500	21,269
1871	3,127	79	1,563,500	19,791	26,431,760	5.92%
1872	3,051	74	1,525,500	20,615
1873	3,520	74	1,760,000	23,784
1874	3,558	68	1,779,000	26,162
1875	3,816	65	1,908,000	29,354	31,014,381	6.15%
1876	3,935	62	1,967,500	31,734
1877	4,108	61	2,054,000	33,672
1878	3,985	59	1,992,500	33,771
1879	3,662	56	1,831,000	32,696
1880	3,966	53	1,983,000	37,415	30,742,649	6.45%
1881	3,779	52	1,889,500	36,337	27,352,361	6.91%
1882	4,207	54	2,103,500	38,954
1883	5,157	48	2,578,500	53,719
1884	4,299	43	2,149,500	49,988
1885	4,291	42	2,145,500	51,083	27,986,493
1886	4,187	43	2,093,500	48,686
1887	4,411	42	2,205,500	52,512
1888	4,477	42	2,238,500	53,298
1889	4,732	40	2,366,000	59,150
1890	4,696	40	2,348,000	58,700	30,808,315	7.62%
1891	4,905	41	2,452,500	59,817
1892	4,904	39	2,452,000	62,872
1893	5,078	36	2,539,000	70,528
1894	4,916	36	2,458,000	68,278
1895	5,071	37	2,535,500	68,527	34,404,287	7.37%
1896	5,258	37	2,629,000	71,054
1897	5,114	38	2,557,000	67,289
1898	5,443	40	2,721,500	68,038
1899	5,552	39	2,776,000	71,179
1900	5,641	38	2,820,500	74,224	37,105,042	7.60%
1901	5,978	38	2,989,000	78,658
Sources:
"The Dynamics of the international brewing industry since 1800" by Richard George Wilson, Terence Richard Gourvish, 1998, pages 121 - 122
“Bericht über der Welt Ausstellung zu Paris im Jahre 1867, volume 7”, 1868, page 119.
"Statistics of British commerce" by Braithwaite Poole, 1852, page 6.
Brewers' Almanack 1928, p. 110

You're expecting some sort of analysis, I bet. Er, steady decline in the number of breweries, apart from a small blip in the 1850's and 1860's. Increase in output, so obviously an increase in the average output per brewery.

The 20th century is even more exciting. It's coming soon. (As soon as I've copied all the numbers from the Brewers' Almanack.)