The first beer festival - the participants

I didn't realise that Boak & Bailey had already written about this event. It was a few years back, so I've a good excuse for forgetting. I can't remember everything I wrote last month, let alone what someone else wrote a few years ago.

They'd found other references to the event. Including one that gave a full list of the participating breweries. It's an odd list. Of the 30 breweries, only two still exist: Donnington and Dreher (now called Schwechat). And there's an oddity straight off. I can't think of many lists that would include the largest brewery in Continental Europe and a tiny rural brewery in the West Country.

You know how much time I spend with my head stuffed up the past's arse. But I only recognised six names in the list. Meaning most couldn't have made it into the 20th century. It also  implies that they weren't very big. Dreher aside, none of the participants was particularly well-known.

There are none of the big names in British brewing: Bass, Allsopp, Whitbread, Truman, Barclay Perkins, William Younger, Charrington, Mann, Watney, Beamish & Crawford, Guinness and Tetley.

Brewery	Town	County/Country
Anton Dreher	Vienna	Austria
Franz Erich		Bavaria
W. J. Green, Phoenix Brewery	Luton	Bedfordshire
Wm. Potts, Anchor Brewery		Cambridgeshire
Magor, Davey, and Co., Redruth Brewery	Redruth	Cornwall
Nicholl and Co.	Colchester	Essex
R. J. Arkell, Donnnington Brewery	Stow-on-the-Wold	Gloucestershire
E. Bowley and Son, Cotswold Brewery	Cirencester	Gloucestershire
J. Richings, London Brewery		Guernsey
Biden and Co.	Gosport	Hampshire
J. Lush, St, George's Brewery	Portsea	Hampshire
John Steal, Pale Ale Brewery	Baldock	Hertfordshire
Henry and Co.	Newry	Ireland
Hills and Son	Deal	Kent
Beer and Co., Original Brewery	Canterbury	Kent
Gillow and Wareham, East Kent Brewery	Sandwich	Kent
Jude and Co., Kent Brewery	Wateringbury	Kent
Stacey, Isherwood, and Foster	Maidstone	Kent
J. W.Crosby, Crown Brewery	West Derby, Liverpool	Lancashire
Hornby And Co.	Liverpool	Lancashire
Monro and Co.	Warrington	Lancashire
Sidgwick and Mottram, Sun Brewery	Salford, Manchester	Lancashire
Boddington and Co., Strangeways Brewery	Manchester	Lancashire, and Burton-on-Trent
Nunnelly and Eady, The Brewery	Market Harboro'	Leicestershire
Horton and Co., Dalston Brewery	Haggerstone	Middlesex
Byles and Co., Grey's Brewery	Henley-on-Thames	Oxfordshire
T. P. Adcock and I. J. Fast	Melton Mowbray	Rutland
E. A. Green, Western Brewery	Bath	Somerset
Phillips Bros.	Burton-on-Trent	Staffordshire, and Northampton
G. S. and H Sainsbury	Devizes	Wiltshire

The geographical spread is very uneven, too. No breweries from Scotland, nor from anywhere in North other than Lancashire. Unsurprisingly given the event's location, a majority are from the South - 17 of 30. Though none are from London.

Region	No. breweries
South	2
Southeast	10
Southwest	5
Midlands	4
North	5
Channel Islands	1
Ireland	1
Foreign	2
Total	30