Morning journal and courier., 1880-11-05
Cincinnati Beer.
Large Increase in PrOduction-IIovF Many Million Glasses the City Drank Last Year.
 rErnn, ti,a Cincinnati Gazetta1

Large Increase in Productton-IIoyv
 Many Million Glasses the City Drank
 Last Year.
 From the Cincinnati Gazette.l
 The following information is from advance sheets of the annual report to the Chamber of Commerce of Sidney D. Maxwell, super intendent.
 The past year has brought the largest production in malt liquors that has ever been witnessed in this locality, the aggregate having reached in this city alone 655, 52O barrels compared with 558, 709 in 1878-9, $50, 519 in 1878, 475,2 in 1876-7, 476, ,229 in 1S76-6, 452, 177 in 1S74-5, 465, S86 in 1S73-4, and 467, 79O in 1972-3. The cities of Coving gton and Newport produced in the last year 52, 800 barrels, compared with A.. 74O in 1S7S9, A, ,47O in 1977-S, 39, ,204 in 1876- ', and 49, ,586 in 1975-6. The three cities produced for the late year, in the aggregate, 7OS, ,32O barrels, or 21 ,957 1920 gallons, in comparison with 6O6, 449 barrels or IS, 799,- 919 gallons in 1S7S-9, and 594, ,99S barrels, or IS, All, 261 gallons in 1877-8. an increase in the past year over 1878-9 of 101, S71 barrels or 3, 158, ,OO1 gallons.
 ''The year, in some respects has been an unsatisfactory one to brewers and therein has been unlike the preceding season. Bar lev has been here in liberal quantities and at satisfactory prices, but hops and ice have both been high, and labor has averaged about ten per cent. more than in 1S78-9. Added to this has been much irregularity in prices, and while the price for lager beer has been nomi- nally maintained at $8 per barrel, in many instances sales have been made at lower rates, much having found market, under the tremendous competition, at $6 per bar rel. An effort was made in the spring to ad- vance prices to $9, but it was intellectual. The demand, at the prices, has never been so great in the history of the trade here, all the breweries having been running to the1r full capacity. It is believed by intelligent observers that with much larger capacity, all would have found the most active en- ployment That under such circumstances there should have been great lrreguiarlty ln prices and unsatisfactory business, IS some what anomalous The condition was proba- ply traceable more to healthy understand ing between producers than to any other, or all other causes combined.
 ''These figures show an important increase, measured by considerable periods, in the growth of the business in this city. In six years the production here has increased over A per cent The increase over the year i'm mediately preceding was 96, 81O barrels, or about 17 per cent. The increase in the lat ter period is traceable to some extent to an enlargement of the area of distribution, es- pecially in the South where, through the agency of the Cincinnati Southern railway, new demand has sought supply. The In- increased demand for local consumption has had. however no little to do in the important growth of the business It is not possible to arrive at the actual quantity consumed in this city and its immediate vicinity, but the records of the Merchants Exchange show, after deducting from the production the ship ments from the city, which for the year amounted to 200 897 barrels, exclusive of such beer as went out in bottles, which would find ample compensation in the beer re- ceiyed from manufacturers elsewhere, the sum of 5O7 AS barrels remaining for the consumption of residents and visitors, which, according to the usual allowance, would swell the consumption to the amazing aggregate of the equivalent of POP, 973, 200 glasses of the usual size. In the production of malt liquors there were consumed in the three cities in the past year, approximately, 1, ,722, 2SO bushels of malt, l, 1898, ,896 pounds of hops, and 55, ,O00 tons of ice, the last named averaging, approximately, $55 per ton. The figures as to the consumption of malt and hops are from actual returns made to the Revenue department allowing for Covington and Newport the average ex- hibited by the returns made for Cincinnati
 s'The increase in the outward movement of beer, embracing all kinds of malt liquors, exclusive of such as was transported ln bottles, has been 38, 294 barrels, or about 23 per cent, whiIe since the year immediately preceding the rebellion, the shipments have grown from g, 5s1 barrels to 200, ,887 bar rels, exhibiting since the census of 1860 the enormous increase of 7S9 per cent"