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mineral waters and cooling drinks.
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In general, 100 kg of barley give 78 kg of dried malt. The total amount
of malt used during the taxation-year 1912/13 corresponded, accordingly, to
about 46 000 000 kg of barley, or nearly 15 % of the total barley-crop of Sweden.
The consumption of malt-liquors is given below.
Porter hi Beer, all kinds, hi Lager- and pilsener small beer, hi Small beer hi
1903 (1903,04) . . . 44 030 1 182 990 177 858 1 770 680
1904 (.1904,05) . . . 54 853 1 293 316 183 892 1 675 506
1905 (1905/06) . . . 58 829 1 245 653 190 633 1 797 904
1906 (1906/07) . . . 66 277 1 230 871 181 756 1 673 000
1907 (.1907,08) . . . 60 386 1161 002 207 084 1 690125
1908 (1908/09) . . . 51072 1 065 627 203 064 1414 865
1909 (1909,10) . . . 33 627 871 443 148 601 1 527 491
1910 (1910/11) . . . 42 466 933 943 158 785 1 635 751
1911 (1911/12) . . . 41944 904 689 146 845 1 564 838
1912 (1912/13) . . . 44 848 962 290 149 253 1 588 759
Malt-manufacture. The malt required for the brewing industry is, for
the most part produced at the breweries themselves.
Malt extract and maltose-compounds were made at two factories in
1912, to a value of 29 500 kronor.
Mineral waters and cooling drinks.
Since the middle of the seventies there have existed firm foundations for the
work carried on by these factories, thanks to A. T. Almen’s valuable
comparative researches regarding the character of natural and artificial mineral waters.
A distinction must be made between medicinal waters, prepared from distilled water
and the necessary chemically pure salts, by which they are given exactly the
same composition as the corresponding natural waters, and cooling drinlcs, in
the preparation of which less care is observed. It is not too much to say that
the medicinal waters made at the best factories in Sweden are of the very
finest quality, and that, owing to their uniformity of composition, they are even
superior to the corresponding natural waters. The waters produced by the
Chemists’ Mineral Waters Manufactory (Sw. Apotekarnes Mineralvattenfabrik), in
Stockholm, have gained considerable recognition.
There are, too, a large number of natural springs in Sweden, containing
chalybeate waters of medicinal virtue, which are bottled and sold; such are
the waters of Porla, Ronneby, and Karlstad. The two last-named are
exceptionally rich in iron. There are also other springs which contain iodine, sodium
carbonate, and sodium chloride, though only in small quantities.
Among cooling drinks may be reckoned lemonade and fruit-clrinks, in the
manufacture of which, however, artificial essences are now largely used,
instead of natural fruit-juices.
In 1912, the total number of factories engaged in this industry amounted
to 250, with a total production-value of 4 545 000 kronor. In addition, mineral
waters and lemonades were manufactured at a number of country breweries.
Tobacco.
The earliest mention of tobacco in Sweden is in 1629. In 1640 the imports
probably amounted to about 36 000 kg, and as early as 1641 the so-called
"Söderkompaniet" (Southern Company) obtained the exclusive privilege of importing
tobacco. In 1662 a kind of State-monopoly was introduced, so that the trade
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