And what better to way to display these facts 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.
More numbers will follow, as I find them.

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