THE OUTPUT OF SOME BIG LONDON BREWERIES.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 2665, 10 August 1889, Page 6 (Supplement)

THE OUTPUT OF SOME BIG LONDON BREWERIES.

Some of the figures quoted by Mr Barnard to illustrate the immensity of this trade almost stun the reader. Gunnies') and Son, of Dublin, who are the large l> fc brewers in the world, turn out every ye ir considerably over a million barrel' , , employ t2' 3."50 persons, and issue over ii million labels Lo I'ueii' bottling customers, The eaok.j exported by Hiss aud Co., ■■imuially would, if placid in a line, extend for fifteen itjilt-t*, while their total annual output would stretch from London to Edinburgh, This idea can bo belter grasped when it is insula known that Haas's have over half a million casko in use, that they load -MO railway tracks v.-ith alo in si single day, aud that they use yearly 6'5,.'i00 tons of raw material, turn over millions sterling yearly, and contribute to the natiional revenue at the rate of ciyht thoasnnd pounds a day, then there are the Allsops, who pay eighty thousand pounds in wages to the sixteen huudred men they employ, whoa':' 'yearly bill for postage ami telegrams is two thouPiiiid pounds, and who run three ox press trains to London every ui»ht to keep up the stock of seventy thousand casks in their London store.*. To the coal tr.ido the brewery business is most important. Bass' use foi ty thousand tons; of coal and two thousand tonsiof coke in a year. Truman Han bury, and iiuxlon'.-i coal bill is ten thousand pounds annually, and they have in a few years saved one hundred thousand pounds by the adoption of smoltefurnaces. The hi;; vats at (luiiiiio.sa'must be reckoned among the marvels of the world. If an army of sewn, hundred thousand men woro encamped round the largest of these vats, and it were tapped for their benefit, tliw W"iild be enough to give a full pint of stout u> each man. At IV.irehy, I'ri ki' s, ,iud (.'.).'.-; tlit-re is a vat. wiiicli |,(,i.. li>.- liur.i'ri-d fniK v.eishi. of portrr, 1; . . ~:,;h u >ui.l take , ■„..•■ .-Jiifiy ■ 111 ■■.■•■lμ .1 nit four el-iya to dr.nk b diy, hu tos-iud oti a gallon a day,