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New York: The Brewers' Journal, 1890. First edition. Pocket-sized directory offered gratis to subscribers to "The Brewers' Journal," a trade paper printed in both English and German established in 1876 in New York by A. E. J. Tovey (perhaps in answer to England's own "Brewers' Journal"). 16mo gilt-stamped blue cloth boards; 88 pp. including 7 pp. ads at front and 15 pp. at rear (including on pastedowns, with rear pastedown being p.[89]). Prints information culled from "the Books of the Internal Revenue Department, Washington, D. C." Includes tables at the front showing total "Malt Liquors" sales in barrels for 1889 and 1890 by state and in principal cities as well as list of total sales to Great Britain and Ireland for the years 1882 - 1889; followed by 50 pages listing every brewery in the U.S. for the year ending May 1, 1890, by state and city, what types of beers they produced (e.g., "L"=Lager), and their total sales by barrel (by production "class," e.g., "4"= 600,000 to 650,000 whereas "40"=…
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