Just back from the library I am trying to decipher my handwriting. What I think I have is Katherine Watson,"Banks and Industrial Finance: the Expense of Brewing, 1880-1913," Economic History Review 49 (Feb. 1996) By the way, my impression is that there is little research in North America on brewing other than a few histories of individual firms, mostly self- congratulatory. Am I correct? David Fahey (Miami) [log in to unmask]