The Western Brewer Aug. 1916
In the Daily Consular and Trade Reports for June 27, issued by the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, Consul G. K. Donald, Maracaibo, Venezuela, writes as follows:
In 1896 the Cerveceria de Maracaibo was organized with a capital of $333,000, and a first-class brewery was erected. Before that date beer was practically unknown except among the Germany colony, but it has since become the favorite drink. The production of the brewery in 1897 was 55,221 gallons. In the year 1914, 321,795 gallons were sold, and in 1915, 252,850 gallons. In 1914, 7,560 pounds of hops were used by the brewery and 5,992 pounds in 1915. This is the only brewery in western Venezuela, i.e., in the States of Zulia, Merida, Tachira, and Trujillo. Beer is sold in bottles and half-bottles, retailing at 25 and 15 cents, respectively. A very small glass of draft beer retails for 5 cents.
The brewery is also the only producer of ice in Maracaibo. Clear ice retailed at 22 cents a pound; clouded ice at $1 per hundred pounds.
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