364 MALT AND BEER IN SPANISH AMERICA. 



Beer imported during years 1888 and 1889. 



[From custom-house record of Barranquilla. In kilograms, per month.] 

 1888. 



* Books of custom-house not posted for November and December, 1889. 



NOTE. At 13 kilograms to the dozen (one-half pints), 60,276 dozen for 1889, exclusive of November 

 and December. 



COLON. 



REPORT BY CONSUL VIFQUAIN. 

 MALT. 



1. There is no malt imported into this consular district. Ther^ are no 

 breweries, no duties on malts, none on beer. 



BEER. 



2. The kinds of beer imported here are German, English, and Amer- 

 ican. In the year 1888, the last good year, the imports of English beer 

 (porter and ale) averaged 1,000 barrels per month ; it was used largely 

 by the Jamaicans working on the canal. In the same year the German 

 imports amounted to 1,500 barrels per month, mostly used on the line 

 of the canal, largely by the Chinese. In the same year the American 



