McMullan
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Yes. And? Don't fortuitous practices ever have beginnings that develop? The point was, cane sugar clearly became a viable (affordable) option in surplus for early 19th century brewers, due to blockades enforced by the British navy during the Napoleonic wars, which was why the French invested in sugar beet. Whatever draconian British legislation followed, after whatever events caused by poor practices (taxation or chemistry, or the abuse of one to favour the other), didn't really prevent what clearly became standard practice of cane sugar additions to English ales, it looks like. At least in my uncomplicated world.Napoleonic Wars* well predates even "Brewers' Invert Sugars".
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