The British Malting Industry Since 1830Malt is the main ingredient in the national beverage, beer. For centuries the malting industry has provided a principal bridge between agriculture and the brewing industry, yet its history has been little studied. The British Malting Industry since 1830 is the first overall account of malting, dealing with the processes, products and sales, owners and employees, and with the evolution of what in 1830 were almost all small, local businesses. Christine Clark traces the influence of the growing demand for beer in Victorian England, and of the increasing power of the large breweries, on the malt industry. Maltsters often saw themselves as the poor cousins of brewers, with whom they had an intimate but ultimately dependent relationship, yet the fortunes left by leading maltsters shows the opportunities the industry offered to those able to benefit from technical innovations and the arrival of the railways. The history of malting in this century has been one of the concentration of many small businesses into a few large ones, such as Pauls and ABM. The industry provides a good example of the benefits and limitations, so typical of British industry, of family ownership. The modern malt industry has survived a series of crises and powerful foreign competition to become a significant exporter. |
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Pauls cricket team 1906 | 19 |
BerwickuponTweed corn exchange in the 1920s | 25 |
S Harold Thompson Samuel Thompson Sons | 31 |
Malting and the Brewing | 33 |
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3 | 62 |
War and Depression 191445 | 137 |
4 | 153 |
The Malting Revolution 194575 | 169 |
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4 | 177 |
The Family Firm 191475 | 201 |
Jock Causton 190587 | 204 |
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accounted Alfred Gough Associated British Maltsters barrels Bass Beccles beer output brewers Brewery Company Brewing Industry Brewing Trade Review British Brewing Industry British malting Burton Bury St Edmunds Canada Malting Company capacity capital Ceased trading cent century chairman Cherry-Downes commission costs December demand for malt distilling dividends duty East Anglian excise floor maltings Gilstrap Earp Gourvish and Wilson grain Guinness Henry Hertfordshire History Hugh Baird important increased Institute of Brewing Ipswich John Sandars Journal kiln labour Lee & Grinling licences Lincolnshire London MAGB maize malt production Malt Tax malt trade malting barley Malting Company malting industry maltsters managing director merger million quarters Newark Norfolk ordinary shares Pauls Malt Pidcock profits purchased quarters of malt Robert Robert Hutchison Ryburgh sales-maltsters Sandars Sandars & Company sectors Select Committee Similarly steeping Stowmarket subsequently Suffolk supply Sutcliffe Swonnell Taylor Thomas Earp tonnes Trumans Wells-Next-The-Sea William
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