One thing is immediately clear: the biggest export market for Scottish brewers was the West Indies. I wonder why that was? I know that they did a big trade in strong Scotch Ale there. The high average price per barrel of those exports tends to confirm that.
Though overall, English exports were higher in price. Is that because English exports were mostly either Pale Ale or Stout, two expensive styles?
I'm truly shocked at how big a proportion of the beer sent to East India were from Scotland. That's certainly a change from a couple of decades earlier, when Burton and London provided most. In the form of Pale Ale and Porter. I wonder what the scots were sending? Maybe it was already Lager.
I think I've worked out the Irish conundrum. It's probably to do with how the statistics were collected. My guess is they did it at the port where the beer left the UK. Any Guinness that was shipped to Liverpool and then dispatched to wherever would be counted in the English numbers.
The same could be true of Scotland. Beer shipped from Leith to London and then sent on.
| UK beer exports in 1897 | ||||
| England | Scotland | |||
| Countries to which exported | average value | % | average value | % |
| Russia | 3.69 | 95.94% | 3.00 | 0.16% |
| Sweden | 4.85 | 85.86% | 2.79 | 14.14% |
| Norway | 3.07 | 100.00% | ||
| Denmark | 3.32 | 97.24% | 3.50 | 2.76% |
| Germany | 3.27 | 98.48% | 3.94 | 1.23% |
| Holland | 3.09 | 93.18% | 3.14 | 6.70% |
| Belgium | 3.02 | 92.20% | 3.26 | 7.36% |
| Channel Islands | 2.25 | 100.00% | ||
| France | 2.91 | 100.00% | ||
| Portugal, Azores, and Madeira | 3.23 | 98.42% | 4.67 | 1.58% |
| Spain and Canaries | 3.56 | 87.40% | 4.47 | 12.60% |
| Gibraltar | 3.09 | 99.86% | 3.07 | 0.14% |
| Italy | 3.93 | 91.50% | 4.23 | 8.50% |
| Austrian Territories | 5.00 | 100.00% | ||
| Malta | 3.22 | 72.88% | 3.16 | 27.12% |
| Greece | 5.33 | 100.00% | ||
| Bulgaria | 4.00 | 100.00% | ||
| Turkey, European | 3.40 | 100.00% | ||
| Turkey, Asiatic | 3.69 | 100.00% | ||
| Egypt | 2.68 | 97.88% | 4.30 | 2.12% |
| Tripoli and Tunis | 2.98 | 100.00% | ||
| Algeria | 4.50 | 100.00% | ||
| Morocco | 3.28 | 100.00% | ||
| Spanish Ports in North Africa | 3.00 | 100.00% | ||
| West. Africa, Foreign | 3.56 | 100.00% | ||
| Western Africa, British | 3.51 | 100.00% | ||
| Ascension & St. Helena | 3.06 | 100.00% | ||
| British Possessions in South Africa | 3.66 | 80.40% | 3.77 | 19.60% |
| Eastern Africa, Foreign | 4.90 | 79.69% | 4.84 | 20.16% |
| Eastern Africa, British | 5.30 | 100.00% | ||
| Abyssinia | 4.50 | 100.00% | ||
| Madagascar | 3.77 | 75.84% | 4.49 | 24.16% |
| Bourbon | 3.56 | 27.17% | 4.51 | 72.83% |
| Mauritius | 3.05 | 56.86% | 2.85 | 43.14% |
| Aden | 3.21 | 100.00% | ||
| Persia | 3.43 | 100.00% | ||
| British East Indies | ||||
| Continental Territories | 3.21 | 27.13% | 2.60 | 72.87% |
| Straits Settlements | 4.17 | 45.94% | 2.92 | 54.06% |
| Ceylon | 2.85 | 83.66% | 4.64 | 16.34% |
| lndia: Dutch Possessions | ||||
| Java | 4.28 | 99.07% | 9.00 | 0.93% |
| Other Possessions | 3.50 | 100.00% | ||
| Spanish Possessions | ||||
| Philippine Islands | 4.55 | 96.40% | 4.78 | 3.60% |
| British Possessions: | ||||
| Borneo | 0.00% | 4.25 | 100.00% | |
| Labuan | 6.67 | 100.00% | ||
| Siam | 3.56 | 12.86% | 4.75 | 87.14% |
| French Indo-China | 6.54 | 68.42% | 4.17 | 31.58% |
| China | 3.74 | 91.37% | 4.48 | 8.63% |
| Hong Kong | 2.84 | 64.83% | 2.68 | 35.17% |
| Japan | 3.89 | 100.00% | 0.00% | |
| Australasia: | ||||
| West Australia | 3.94 | 81.19% | 3.61 | 18.81% |
| South Australia | 4.36 | 68.89% | 5.04 | 31.11% |
| Victoria | 4.13 | 64.09% | 4.32 | 35.91% |
| New South Wales | 3.79 | 64.98% | 5.25 | 22.17% |
| Queensland | 4.52 | 79.88% | 3.24 | 20.12% |
| Tasmania | 5.19 | 96.25% | 2.41 | 3.75% |
| New Zealand | 5.39 | 98.88% | 3.56 | 1.12% |
| Fiji Islands | 3.30 | 100.00% | 0.00% | |
| Islands in the Pacific | 3.52 | 100.00% | 0.00% | |
| British North America | 4.54 | 85.34% | 2.88 | 14.66% |
| U. States of America | 4.27 | 87.86% | 6.80 | 1.45% |
| Bermudas | 2.68 | 37.27% | 3.23 | 62.73% |
| British W. Ind. Islands | 3.90 | 20.68% | 4.10 | 79.32% |
| Spenish W. Ind. Islands | 3.23 | 85.28% | 4.57 | 14.72% |
| French W. Ind. Islands | 4.93 | 100.00% | 0.00% | |
| Dutch W. Ind. Islands | 3.81 | 100.00% | 0.00% | |
| Danish W. Ind. Islands | 4.69 | 43.48% | 5.29 | 56.52% |
| British Honduras | 3.83 | 70.65% | 5.12 | 29.35% |
| British Guiana | 3.88 | 12.67% | 3.91 | 87.33% |
| Dutch Guiana | 3.77 | 100.00% | 0.00% | |
| Hayti and S. Domingo | 9.20 | 21.88% | 4.57 | 78.13% |
| Mexico | 3.93 | 89.87% | 4.46 | 10.13% |
| Central America | 4.69 | 96.43% | 3.67 | 3.57% |
| Republic of Colombia | 3.27 | 83.53% | 4.49 | 16.47% |
| Venezuela | 3.54 | 61.78% | 4.60 | 38.22% |
| Ecuador | 4.50 | 80.00% | 7.00 | 20.00% |
| Peru | 4.17 | 100.00% | 0.00% | |
| Chili | 3.76 | 79.17% | 4.03 | 20.83% |
| Brazil | 3.52 | 99.19% | 6.89 | 0.81% |
| Uruguay | 4.10 | 88.12% | 4.83 | 11.88% |
| Argentine Republic | 4.08 | 99.59% | 4.40 | 0.41% |
| Falkland Islands | 3.34 | 100.00% | 0.00% | |
| Average | 3.48 | 69.37% | 3.17 | 29.87% |
| Source: | ||||
| The Brewers' Journal, 1898, page 391. | ||||
I had a similar conundrum a few years ago when I found some statistics indicating that Germany imported more beer from Belgium than Ireland. This seemed odd as any German city of any size has several Irish Pubs selling shitloads of Guinness. But there weren’t many shops or bars selling Trappist beers. Of course it turned out that the beer was imported through Belgium rather than originating in Belgium.
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