378 MALT AND BEER IN .SPANISH AMERICA. 



NEVIS. 



REPORT BY CONSULAR A OH NT SIMMONDS. 



Malt liquors are not much consumed in this district. The original im- 

 portation takes place at St. Christopher's (the head of the Presidency) 

 and shipped to this place coastwise in small lots. It is generally im- 

 ported in hogsheads of 54 Imperial gallons (on which there is an import 

 duty of $2 per hogshead and sold for $20) and in bottles packed in 

 barrels and cases of 4 dozen quarts and 8 dozen pints, on which there 

 is an import duty 12 cents per dozen quarts and sold for $7, subject 

 to a slight fluctuation. English bottled beer has hitherto been most 

 used, though there is sale for foreign lager-beer. German brands of 

 lager-beer have hitherto been most used. 



I believe that American brewed beer could be placed on the market 

 in the manner I have already described with successful results. 



CHAS. H. SIMMONDS, 



Consular Agent. 



UNITED STATES CONSULAR AGENCY, 



N&cis, March 19, 1890. 



TRINIDAD. 



REPORT BY CONSUL SAWYER. 

 MALT. 



No malt is imported, the climate not permitting brewing. 



BEER. 



Malt liquors are chiefly imported in barrels and cases, each contain- 

 ing 7 dozen pints and 4 dozen quarts. Lager-beers are rapidly driving 

 the heavy English ales out of the market. Hitherto the German 

 lagers have been monopolizing the Trinidad market, but the English 

 brewersj being fully alive to the situation, are erecting lager-beer fac- 

 tories in England and Scotland, and within the past few months some 

 shipments of English brewed lager from the firm of Messrs. 1 !. & B. 

 Teunaiit have been received here and the beer, being of Al quality, has 

 had great success. 



Heavy stouts, such as Guinness's Dublin, are found too heavy and 

 also too expensive for the Trinidad trade, but a large business is done 

 in cheaper stouts, brewed chiefly in Scotland. 



Consumption of stout in Trinidad is about 2,500 barrels per month 

 and of lager-beer about 1,000 to 1,200 cases. Prices range from $6.50 

 to $6 per 7 dozen pints, both stout and lager-beer ; $6 to $5.50 per 4 

 dozen quarts lager-beer and stout. 



