Scottish beer exports 1916 - 1933

I warned you there would be more numbers. I have these episodes where I go statistic crazy for a week or two. The family have learnt to ignore when an attack strikes. Feel free to do the same if numbers aren't your suitcase.

Below are the sort-of figures for Scottish exports that I thromised. Why sort-of? Because, while exports clearly make up the bulk of the figure, there are other categories of duty-free beer included. They're the best I can do, basically. In the last column I've included the actual amount of beer exported.

Well, almost, because it's in standard barrels. As are all the other figures. That's a nominal 36 gallon barrel with an OG of 1055. So if the beer A actually had an OG of 1027.5, 1 standard barrel of beer A would be two bulk barrels. Is that clear?

In most years the duty-free beer figure is about 10% large than the exported figure. Though there are a couple of years where it's around 20%. Very roughly, knocking 10% off the duty-free number should get us close to the number of standard barrels exported.

The period 1921 to 1930 is revealing. Scottish exports increased steadily while English exports remained fairly flat, but with a small decrease. 1927 being the turning point, where Scottish exports, probably for the first time ever, outstripped English ones.

That's an incredible achievement for Scottish brewing. remember that they were competing against the likes of Bass, Worthington and Whitbread. Much larger companies with far larger resources. Even the Scottish giants - McEwan, William Younger and Tennent - were much smaller concerns than their large English rivals.

Here's the table:

Beer Exported on Drawback and Free of Duty
	England and Wales	Scotland	Ireland	United Kingdom	UK exports
1916	581,947	174,595	46,371	802,913
1917	314,333	73,896	30,095	418,324
1918	174,408	30,379	16,185	220,972
1919	470,794	195,995	33,821	700,610
1920	312,868	146,726	16,698	485,292	390,248
1921	215,719	92,193	12,648	320,560
1922	207,882	117,978	10,239	336,099	260,914
1923	176,913	108,544	2,270	287,727	257,454
1924	158,373	132,889	753	292,015	264,003
1925	180,731	145,603	415	326,749	290,824
1926	178,155	168,609	305	347,069	283,033
1927	156,258	179,242	232	338,732	287,445
1928	170,728	193,255		363,983	328,029
1929	176,381	223,638		400,019	352,942
1930	173,988	204,345		378,333	328,524
1931	159,278	147,527		306,805	289,516
1932	136,231	133,240		269,471	244,525
1933	117,363	126,254		243,617	217,981
Sources:
Brewers' Journal 1919, page 65.
Brewers' Journal 1922, page 71.
Brewers' Journal 1925, page 83.
Brewers' Journal 1928, page 87.
Brewers' Journal 1928, page 87.
Brewers' Journal 1934, page 162.
Brewers' Almanack 1928, p. 115
Brewers' Almanack 1955, p. 57

I don't I've quite worked the number mania out of my system yet. Prepare yourselves for more.