UK Beer exports to South America in 1898

The final post in this series looks at the UK's smallest export market: South America. There's a simple reason it took so little British beer. There was only one part, with a very small population, ruled by the British.

Yet Guyana still manages to be number two in the quantity of UK beer taken. Beaten only by Brazil. It may seem odd that Guyana took so much beer from Scotland. But it makes sense, when you think that it was culturally part of the Caribbean. Where Scottish beer was very popular. As we saw in an earlier post. The rest of South America only imported 251 barrels combined.

The countries on the East Coast of the continent - Chile, Peru and Ecuador - took bugger all UK beer. Not really surprising, given how mush trouble it was to get there by sea. All of them were importing less than the Falkland Islands. Where almost no-one lived.

Only Brazil was a significant market for UK beer. Still not that much, really. But more than a third of the total for the whole continent. At a value of just under 69 shillings a barrel, it can't have been that strong.

I might have expected Argentina to be keener on British beer. But they only bought a little over 1,000 barrels. 

UK Beer exports to South America in 1898
Destination	From England.		From Scotland.		From the U.K.
	Quantity.	Declared Value.	Quantity.	Declared Value.	Quantity.	Declared Value.
	Barrels	£	Barrels	£	Barrels	£
British Guiana	768	3,076	3,045	13,432	3,813	16,598
French Guiana	35	106	-	-	35	106
Dutch Guiana	169	619	-	-	169	619
Republic of Colombia	908	3,092	106	481	1,074	3,573
Venezuela	121	394	38	161	159	555
Ecuador	5	16	5	39	10	55
Peru	295	1,261	3	15	298	1,276
Chili	291	1,118	84	359	375	1,477
Brazil	4,460	15,305	14	118	4,474	15,423
Uruguay	114	407	1	5	115	412
Argentine Republic	1,156	4,719	-	-	1,156	4,719
Paraguay	8	23		-	8	23
Falkland Islands	496	1,679	-	-	496	1,679
Total	8,826	31,815	3,296	14,610	12,182	46,515
Source:
The Brewers' Journal vol. 35 1899, June 15th 1899, page 344.
Note:
Year ending 30th September 1898.