Talk:Beerhouse Act 1830

Effect of Beer Act
"By 1841 licences under the new law had been issued to 45,500 commercial brewers" is surely wrong? The number relates to beer houses, few of which would qualify as 'commercial brewers' (a term that meant something specific at that time). Many/most commercial brewers will have opened more than one beer house by 1841. Newburychap (talk) 09:04, 28 October 2012 (UTC)

Also the 'fact': ... that in the six months after the Beerhouse Act was passed in England in 1830, nearly 25,000 new licenses to open pubs, taverns and alehouses were issued?" Is tosh - the act resulted in the opening of a huge number of beerhouses not 'pubs, taverns and alehouses' - the three terms used have meanings that have changed over time but one of them 'alehouse' was clearly outside the scope of the Beer Act and refers to the 'Common Alehouse' ie a magistrate licensed house. In general pubs before 1830 operated under an alehouse licence and continued to do so afterwards - their numbers did not increase, if anything they would have decreased as those that did not sell much in the way of spirits opted for a beerhouse license from the Excise rather than the more onerous alehouse license.Newburychap (talk) 09:15, 28 October 2012 (UTC)


 * If you have any actual sources contradicting the actual sources making those statements, feel free to present them. That the numbers just don't seem right to you isn't, I'm afraid, a valid ground to invalidate those sources.   Ravenswing   01:06, 29 October 2012 (UTC)