§ Lieut.-Colonel SPENDER-CLAYasked the Food Controller whether he will consider the possibility of fixing a gravity for each grade of beer instead of permitting a range of several degrees; and whether he can arrange that gravities should be marked on barrels before leaving the brewery?
Mr. ROBERTSThe present permitted range enables customers to obtain beer of rather superior quality to the minimum prescribed gravity in each category without any increase of price. Brewers are already compelled to mark clearly on each barrel the retail price of the contents, and this affords guarantee that the gravity is not less than the prescribed minimum in the category to which the price relates.