I might guess that they were they included standard narrow boats with cabins
Birmingham sanitary registration includes for Walter Showell
240 Implacable No 3 for carrying ale and coal- Oldbury- Birmingham July 2nd 1879
510 Cinderella beer London, Kidderminster & Walsall October 21st 1885
513 Speedwell beer and empties London Stoke & Kidderminster November 11 1885
514 Lily beer and empties London Stoke & Kidderminster November 11 1885
515 Swiftsure beer and empties London Stoke & Kidderminster November 11 1885
516 Walter beer and empties Birmingham, Walsall, Kidderminster, Stoke December 8th 1885
518 Robert beer and empties Birmingham, Kidderminster & Stoke December 8th 1885
521 Struggler beer and empties London, Stoke & Kidderminster January 19th, 1886
522 Sarah beer and empties London, Stoke & Kidderminster February 9th 1886
The relative long distance of carrying beer would indicate cabin craft and as they were registered had to meet the regulations for cabin craft.
The maltings remain though badly damaged by fire.
The Brewery offices remain, but parts of the site at Langley were also destroyed by fire. This view no longer exists