360 MALT AND BEER IN SPANISH AMERICA, 



The beer mostly drank here is sold in bottles of three-fourths liter, 

 which equals 1.3206 imperial pint, at 5 cents, 10 cents, and 20 cents, 

 United States gold, per bottle retail, and wholesale at 50 cents, 62 cents, 

 and 75 cents the dozen bottles. 



No malt imported. Beer is imported in very small quantities by for- 

 eign houses, which sell to retailers. 



Duties on hops imported in cases 8J cents, United States gold, the kilo- 

 gram, gross weight, and in sacks or bales 11 cents, United States, gold, 

 per kilogram, gross weight. 



In my opinion there is no business to be done in southern Chili in 

 foreign beers, as there are so many brewers who supply this article so 

 cheaply as to shut out all foreign competition, unless admitted free of 

 duty, and then the competition would be doubtful. 



JOHN F. YANlNGKEN, 



Consul. 

 UNITED STATES CONSULATE, 



Talcahuano, March 27, 1890. 



ECUADOR. 



REPORT BY CONSUL-GENERAL SORSBY, OF GUAYAQUIL. 

 MALT. 



In Ecuador there are several breweries. On the coast there is but one 

 and it is at Guayaquil, the " Guayaquil Lager Beer Brewery Association." 

 In the interior there are two, one at Quito and the other at Ambato. 

 The Guayaquil brewery is the only one importing malt. 



Guayaquil. Heretofore the malt for the Guayaquil brewery has been 

 imported in a prepared state, and via New York from Canada. About 

 400 bushels per month is imported, costing delivered at Guayaquil, in- 

 cluding import duty, $2.50 United States gold per bushel. The import 

 duty on malt is 2 cents, of a sucre per kilogram, plus 20 per cent., or, 

 say, 36 cents United States gold per bushel. It is estimated that malt 

 can be had from Chili at about $2 United States gold per bushel, inclu- 

 sive of the duty ; and its safe to say that in the future Chili will furnish 

 the Guayaquil brewery with all the malt required. 



The interior produces all the malt required for its breweries. 



BEER. 



More than an estimate on the beer imported into the Republic can 

 not be given. The amount imported and consumed per annum is about 

 300,000 gallons, the greater part of which comes from Germany, but 

 recently English and American beers are curtailing the German exports. 

 The duty on beer is 5 cents per kilogram gross, plus 20 per cent., or, say, 

 1 J cents United States gold. " Gross " means that the duty is charged 

 on the gross weight of beer, bottles, straw, and boxes. Beers shipped 

 to Ecuador come packed in cases of 4 dozen whole and 6 dozen half 



