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Even though this is tongue in cheek, an ice cream barge with the requisite refrigeration and dedication of ship space 1000s of miles out in the south pacific is on a whole different scale of investment than this and they also had beer on the ships already. Though it probably wasn't as good as the british beer.

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The British also had a brewery on a ship for use in the Pacific https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Menestheus