MALT AND BEER IN SPANISH AMERICA. 357 



There are breweries in each of the three principal cities of this State 

 Rio Grande, Pelotas, and Porto Alegre which amply supply the de- 

 mand for the beer of the country. 



Eio Grande has three breweries, with a total capacity of about 

 1,200,000 bottles per annum. Pelotas six, two or three of which have 

 an annual capacity of 500,000 bottles each, and Porto Alegre nine, two 

 of which have each a capacity of 1,000,000 bottles per annum. 



The domestic breweries bottle all their beer ; there is nothing in the 

 malt-liquor line handled in wood casks in this country. 



The ordinary beer of this country sells at from 90 cents to $1 per 

 dozen, from the brewer to the retailer who sells it to the consumers at 

 from 16 to 20 cents per bottle. 



A stronger dark beer sells at from 30 to 50 per cent, higher. 



Imported beer is put on the market through certain commercial 

 houses, which will sometimes have the exclusive agency for a large scope 

 of country for the sale of certain brands adopted by bottlers in Europe. 



In order to establish any trade in the sale of American beer in this 

 country, I can but reiterate practically what I have written before; it is 

 necessary to establish a house or an agency in the part of the country 

 where trade is desired, which will push its goods, whatever they be, in 

 competition with the importations from Europe. 



I have noticed that the competition which is made through patriotic 

 as well as financial motives is the most successful, and it is the only 

 kind that will ever build up a good trade for American products in this 

 country. 



German and English houses sell all the foreign beer in this country, 

 and a simple glance at the figures in the table which I have given shows 

 the effect of their influence in pushing the products of their respective 

 countries in foreign markets. 



LEBBEUS G. BENNINGTON, 

 Consul. 



UNITED STATES CONSULATE, 



Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, March 7, 1890. 



BRITISH GUIANA. 



REPORT BY CONSUL WALTHALL, OF DEMERARA. 

 MALT. 



No malt is either made in this colony or imported into it. 



BEER. 



Malt liquors of various kinds are imported, both in wood and in 

 bottles, Hi idly from Great Britain, though to a small extent from Den- 

 mark. Holland, and the United States. The duty is $5 per hogshead 

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