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imports were on an average of 600 barrels per month, chietiy Milwau- 

 kee; about one-seventh of it NewOrleans beer. 



A barrel consists of 10 dozen pint bottles, or 6 dozen quart bottles. 



English beer was sold here at $7 per barrel ; the German at $6.50 and 

 *!> per barrel ; the Ameriean beer, Milwaukee, at $12 ; New Orleans at 



lib. 



Milwaukee is "the beer" mostly used here; retailed at 50 and CO 

 cents per quart bottle (or 35 and 40 cents American money per bottle). 

 During the year 1889 Milwaukee beer is the only one that increased its 

 imports. 



3. The beers are placed upon the market by local firms (wholesale 

 grocers and commission houses) and disposed by those to the multitude 

 of saloons. 



In addition to the answers I beg to state that of late the vessels 

 bringing ice here imported, on an average of one per month, some one 

 hundred ten-gallon kegs of regular lager. It is chiefly used in Panama, 

 but it is far from being the lager "on tap" in the States; in other 

 words, it does not improve on the voyage. 



In case the canal resumes work it is my opinion that a brewery with 

 beer garden in the mountains, some four or five miles from here, would 

 do an extremely lively business, provided it could import its own ice. 



VICTOR VIFQUAIN, 



Consul. 



UNITED STATES CONSULATE, 



Colon, January 31, 1890. 



VENEZUELA. 



LA GUAYRA. 



REPORT BY CONSUL BIRD. 



MALT. 



The importation of malt at this port is quite small, amounting, as 

 carefully estimated, to about 120 bushels per month of the value at re- 

 tail of $13.82 per 100 pounds. Importations are of shelled unground 

 grain, and the largest part comes from Hamburg ; the rest is contrib- 

 uted by the United States. The duty on unhusked malt is 89 cents per 

 100 pounds, and 12J per cent, of total duty added for transit duties. 

 The duty on shelled unground malt, the kind that, is usually imported, 

 is $6.66 per 100 pounds and 12 per cent, of total duty added for transit 

 duties. 



BEER. 



The importation of beer at this port, wlnVh can be approximately 

 stated only, amounts to about 60.000 bottles per month, 75 per cenr. of 

 which comes from Germany and the remainder from England and the 



