470 



THE BREWING INDUSTRY IN IRELAND. 



quantity of (i) malt, (2) unmalted corn, (3) rice, maize, and other similar 

 preparations, and (4) sugar, etc., used in each Collection District during the 

 year ended 30th September, igoL 



The difference between the number of brewers and the quantity of malt used, as set out in 

 this table or the preceding table is accounted for by the fact that one victualler in the Kilkenny 

 Collection District is licensed as a brewer for safe, and is included by the Commissioners of 

 Inland Revenue in the preceding table but is excluded from this table. 



Thus it will be seen that whilst Irish brewers form only 2 per cent, of the 

 total number of brewers in the United Kingdom, they produce over 8 per 

 cent, of the beer and use about 11 per cent, of the total amount of malt, an 

 almost infinitesimal portion of the unmalted corn, and less than ^ per cent. 

 of the sugar, rice, maize, and other substitutes and preparations employed 

 by the brewers of the United Kingdom. 



The Dublin Collection District. 



In dealing seriatim with the principal breweries in the chief Collection 



District, viz., Dublin, the first to be noted is, of course, 



p . , |j the great firm of Messrs. Arthur Guinness Son cind 



uuinness s Brewery. ^^^ ^^^^ ^^^ occupy an absolutely unique position. 



In the year 1 900-1 901 there were about 37,000,000 

 barrels of beer made by the 6,440 brewers of the United Kingdom 

 who brew for sale, and of this total over one-twentieth was 

 brewed by the single firm of Guinness, who have by far the 

 largest output of any firm in the United Kingdom or, indeed, in the 

 world. The unique position occupied by Guinness's Brewery is shown 

 by the fact that they manufacture more than two-thirds of all the beer 

 brewed in Ireland. The first Guinness connected with the great brewery 

 was Mr. Arthur Guinness, who purchased the concern as it then stood from 

 a Mr. Rainsford in 1759, and it is understood that even at that date the 

 brewery was already long established. The brewery then possessed a 

 frontage of ninety feet, stretched back to a depth of three hundred and 

 eighty feet, and abutted on three streets. The colossal business now 



