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GENERAL REPORT OF THE JUDGES OF GROUP IV. 5 ALE. The same good business qualities which characterize, in general, the brewers of lager-beer in the United States are also perceptible in the efforts put forth by their fellow-brewers in ale. Although not so numerous, they are certainly not surpassed in the quality of their products by their younger compeers. Thirteen breweries furnished samples of present-use ale, drawn from casks on the spot, and six presented ten different brewings bottled for domestic use and expor tation, most of which satisfied all requirements as to a careful selection of material, and a fair proportion as to the best skill in using it. The testing of stock ale having been postponed to a later date, and having been confided to other Judges, I am not able to include here an abstract of its results. Ale being an institution of considerable consequence with all English-speaking people, we found our Canadian neighbors well represented by five breweries, claiming on nine brands of ale—partly on draught, partly from bottles—the distinction due to careful and intelligent brewing. Seven of the many well-known breweries of Great Britain were represented at the Exhibition by twelve different samples, mostly of bottled ale, a majority striving quite successfully for the recognition of the superiority of their stock and export ales. One sample came from India, the Marree Brewery, in the Punjab, which was quite noticeable for its quality, considering the place of manufacture. It is of the same as furnished to her Imperial Majesty’s troops serving in the Punjab. Australia submitted ten samples of ale from seven breweries, six of which are situated in Kew, Melbourne, Carlton, Sandhurst, and Geelong, in Victoria, and one in Wellington, New Zealand. Their exhibits prove that the art of brewing is not becoming lost in its march around the globe, but that Australia is even excelling some older communities in producing such ale &s that brewed by P. J. Martin, in Melbourne, from Victoria malt and Tasmania hops. Sweden made a very fair record for its ale by four samples from three breweries in Landskrono and Malmo. The Netherlands were represented by only two samples of beer, both from Breda, from which no just conclusion could be drawn as to the condition of this branch of industry in Holland. The same must be said of brewing in Portugal, for which Lisbon furnished from one brewery one sample each of beer, ale, and porter. The two samples of ale and lager-beer presented by Plagemann &