- Beers of the world
What follows is a list of
beer s of the world by the country within which they originate, and the beer drinking andbrewing practices within those countries:Africa
Egypt The leading local brand is called Stella (not to be confused with the Belgian
Stella Artois ). Available in original, export, and premium varieties. Other brands on the market include Meister and Sakara, and the non-alcoholic "Birell" and "Kaliber".Kenya
The leading brand of beer in
Kenya is Tusker. Tusker Lager is a medium beer with an alcoholic content of 4.2% ABV. It is available in three formats: 500 ml amber coloured bottle, 330 ml can and 30/50-litre keg. Tusker lager has consistently won Gold Medals in the International Monde Selection Quality Awards. Tusker Lager’s dominant colours are Golden Yellow, Black and White. It's name originates from the death of George Hurst a co-founder of Kenya Breweries Ltd, when he was killed by an elephant during a hunting expedition in 1923. In memory of his death, this famous lager beer that he had helped create was renamed 'Tusker'. There are several other widely consumed beers in Kenya, mostly lagers. Other beers are, Pilsner, White Cap, Allsopps, Bell and Senior Lager. Other than Kenya, Tusker can be found in theUnited Kingdom ,Japan ,USA ,Canada andTanzania .Morocco Namibia Nigeria A ban on imports of barley
malt imposed in 1990 forced brewers to find ways to produce beer with locally-availablesorghum andmaize .Guinness "Foreign Extra Stout" is an intriguing brew with a unique flavour. The Nigerian version is distinct from other Guinness FES's found around the world.South Africa Uganda
By far the most popular beer in southern
Uganda is the famous Nile Special, produced in and distributed fromJinja , the source of theNile atLake Victoria .The Americas
North America
Canada Mexico United States Central America andCaribbean Honduras Honduras' most famous beers are Imperial, Barena, Port Royal and Salva Vida.
Belize Belikin is the leading domestically produced beer brand in Belize.Costa Rica Imperial, Imperial Light, Pilsen, Pilsen 6.0, Bavaria Gold, Bavaria Light, Bavaria Dark, Rock Ice and Rock Ice Limón . With the exception of Bavaria Negra, all are light-coloured, light-bodied lagers. The non-alcoholic Kaiser is also produced in the country. There are also many import brands available on the market.
Jamaica
Red Stripe isJamaica 's best-known beer. It is considered to be a blondelager .Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico 's most recognized brand isMedalla Light [http://www.medallalight.com] .Cerveza India , produced in the same brewery, was also recognized during the 80's. Today, many of the islanders drink Medalla Light, produced in the only local brewery,Cervezeria India . The beer has won first prize in Brussels and has a huge market share in the Caribbean. Currently it's the one of the top selling beers in Puerto Rico.outh America
Argentina
With almost 80% of the Argentine market,
Cerveza Quilmes is the most popular Argentine beer and an icon to Argentine. Third in the market is Schneider. The most consumed foreign beers areHeineken and Budweiser.Brazil Chile Peru
The consumption per capita in
Peru is 22 liters per year.Three local producers:
Sab Miller, with the local brands: Cusqueña, Cristal, Pilsen, Arequipeña and the Honduran but local-made Barena.
Ambev, with the Brazilian, but also local made, Brahma.
Ajeper, with the all new Franca. This is a Peruvian company.
Also, there is a good selection of imported beers as Erdinger and Flensburger from Germany, Strong Suffolk and Abbot from the UK, Corona from Mexico, Heineken from Holland, Saporo from Japan, Stella Artois (the Belgian brand, but made in Argentina), Quilmes also from Argentina, etc. Other way, there are small local producers of standard beer and a lot of producers of the ancient beer namedChicha (which is normally made of a local corn namedJora in the traditional "Chicherías".)Asia
China Taiwan Taiwan beer is well-known for its sweet, mild taste.
India Indonesia Bintang is a locally brewed version ofHeineken beer. It is noticeable that Bintang uses similar packaging (650ml green bottle) and identical symbol (red star) to Heineken. The name Bintang means "star" in Indonesian.Bali Hai isn't a beer produced on
Bali but on Java.Japan Korea Philippines
ingapore
Tiger Beer is a very popular beer originating fromSingapore owed by APB (Asia Pacific Breweries )Thailand Singha and Chang are among the most popularThai beer .Vietnam Tiger Beer is perhaps the most popular beer among the Vietnamese [http://wikitravel.org/en/Vietnam#Drink] . Local beers include 333, pronounced "ba-ba-ba", Bia Saigon, and Ha'noi.Bia hơi is a unique type of very light draft lager produced locally in small batches.Laos Beer Lao is the most popular.Europe
Albania Armenia Three local beer brands are available throughout the country: Kilikia (named after a historic Armenian kingdom at the Mediterranean coast), Kotayk (named after an Armenian province east of
Yerevan ) and Erebuni (historical settlement in the southeastern part of present day Yerevan).Russia n beers, especially Baltika, are also widely available throughout the country.Austria Azerbaijan Belgium Bulgaria
Bulgaria , while being quite a small country inEastern Europe , has quite a number of beer brands. The most popular breweries (all producing namesake lagers) areKamenitza (produced in the city ofPlovdiv ),Zagorka (produced mainly inStara Zagora ) andAstikA (Produced in city ofHaskovo ). Other remarkable brands areStolichno (bock beer produced byZagorka ),Shumensko (both lager and red ale, produced in the city ofShumen ),Burgasko (produced in the city ofBurgas ), MM (produced in the city ofVarna ),Pirinsko (brewed in the city ofBlagoevgrad ), andPlevensko (produced in the city ofPleven ). Most of the Bulgarian breweries are currently owned by foreign breweries, such asHeineken (Zagorka ) andInterbrew (AstikA andKamenitza ).Czech Republic Denmark Estonia and Finland
Both of these countries are known for their traditional juniper beers. In
Finland , this is known asSahti and inEstonia it is calledKoduõlu ("home beer"). This beer is made from rye or oat malts that are filtered throughstraw andjuniper twigs. According tobeerhunter Michael Jackson, it is by far the oldest continuous living tradition of beer making, representing nothing less than a direct link withBabylon ian beer-making methods.Germany Hungary Iceland Ireland Italy Kosovo The most popular domestic beer is Kosovo is Birrë e Pejes ("Beer of
Peć ").Kyrgyzstan
While traditional Kyrgyz drinks like
bozo andkymyz retain popularity, and Soviet-style beer lives on in the form of Nashe, Kyrgyzstan does have good beer. The brewpubs Steinbrau and Kellersbier in Bishkek bring German-style lagers to the land, while microbreweries exist in Osh and Jalal-Abad. Many of the big local names are Russian (Baltika, Sibirskoe Koronna, Bagbier, Klinskoe) or Kazak (Tian-Shan, Karagandinskoe).Latvia Beer is a historic traditions in
Latvia and is known to have been made before theNorthern Crusades in the thirteenth century. Today, the most popular brand in Latvia is Aldaris (based inRiga ).Lithuania This Baltic state has a major beer scene in the northern part of the country, centred around the towns of
Pasvalys ,Pakruojis ,Kupiškis andBiržai . The farmhouse brews of the region are highly distinctive, using local ingredients and techniques from pre-Soviet times. Lithuania also brew the Cuba beer.The biggest commercial breweries are located in towns Utena ("
Utenos alus "'),Panevėžys ("Kalnapilis "),Klaipėda ("Švyturys "),Kaunas ("Ragutis ") andVilnius ("Tauras ").Macedonia The best Macedonian beer is Skopsko. There are also Silver Moon, Zlaten Dab, Bitolsko, Gorsko etc.
Netherlands Norway Poland Portugal The most famous brands in
Portugal are:*Coral from
Madeira
*Sagres fromLisbon
*Super Bock fromPorto Portuguese beer is considered very good, and a lot of barrels are drunk every day by young and old people.
Romania Russia
Russia ns have long lived with the stereotype of being heavy drinkers. Beer ( _ru. пиво – Pivo) is the nation's number two alcoholic drink aftervodka , but is seen by many as a healthier almost non-alcoholic alternative (such that it is the number one alcoholic drink in the always more westward leaningSt.Petersburg , consumption 95 l. per capita, 2005). Unlike the Germanic language speaking peoples (i.e. English, Dutch and German Speakers), Russians (like Spanish speakers) categorize beer by color, and not by fermentation process: Light, Red or Semi-Dark, and Dark. Light is a more or less equivalent to Lager and the last two are close to Ales. There are also super-strong beers (6-10% of alcohol) which are very popular in Russia. The most known brands of Russian beer areBaltika andStary Melnik , however almost every region of Russia is proud to have its own brewery.There are a few microbreweries and brewpubs to be found, in major cities like St. Petersburg, Moscow and Kazan'.
Serbia lovakia
The most famous brands in
Slovakia are Šariš,Smädný mních ("Thirsty Monk") andZlatý bažant ("Golden pheasant").There are 15 breweries in Slovakia:
*Pivovar Bytča (K. K. Company) -Martiner , Popper, Palatín
*Pivovar Corgoň (Heineken Slovensko a.s.) - Corgoň, Maurus,Stup
*Pivovar a sladovňa Gemer a.s. (Heineken Slovensko a.s.) - Gemer,Zuzana
*Pivovar Horden (Esperia a.s.) - Horden
*Pivovar Ilava (K. K. Company) -Richtár ,Vartáš
*Pivovar Martiner (Heineken Slovensko a.s.) -Martiner ,Martinský zdroj
*Minipivovar M.K. Unipol Trnava
*Steiger (Eduard Rada s.r.o.) - Steiger,Sitňan , Hell,Kachelmann
*Pivovar Stein a.s. - Stein, Pressburger,Premium Pils , Dominik
*Minipivovar Svätý Jurlovenia
Most commonly known brands of
Slovenia n beer are Laško and Union, although smaller breweries exist.Slovenians categorize beer by color (similar to Russians and the Spanish), light beer is most widely consumed.pain
Some known Spanish beers are
Mahou-San Miguel (known as Mahou before the acquisition by San Miguel company),Estrella Damm ,Alhambra ,Estrella Galicia ,Estrella Levante ,Cruzcampo , Reina, Dorada andLa Zaragozana .Sweden Turkey United Kingdom Middle East Israel Lebanon Lebanese beers include
Almaza andLaziza .Palestinian Authority Taybeh Beer is Palestinian beer brewed to a recipe derived from monks in the Middle Ages.Syria Oceania Australia *
Victoria Bitter
*Melbourne Bitter
*Carlton Draught
*Tooheys New Zealand
The indigenous people of
New Zealand (Māori ) did not brew beer. Major ingredients of beer were not introduced to New Zealand until Europeans arrived in the mid 1800s. The first beer brewed in New Zealand was byCaptain Cook while anchored in Ship Cove in the outer reachs of Queen Charlotte Sound in January 1770. Here he experimented with the use beer brewed with young Rimu branches as a treatment againstscurvy .The late European history is characterised by the dominance of about three large breweries. The dominance of these was helped by the buying of some of the small local breweries. From the mid 1980s small boutique or microbreweries started to emerge. Consequently, the range of beer styles increased. Some
pub s operate their own small breweries, often housed within the pub itself. Wine and ready mixed alcoholic drink consumption is increasing and is lessening the quantity of beer being sold.Speights , Lion Red, Tui and Export Gold are at present the most popular kiwi beers. Steinlager is exported from New Zealand but is not commonly drank in the same way Fosters is not readily available in Australia.Interestingly, New Zealand is also a commercial mainstay of what are known as Ice Brewed Beers.These are bottom-fermented batch brewed lagers, which for commercial production reach an initial alcohol percentage of 3%.Fermentation precipitate solids (yeast, malt husks etc) are removed in a cryogenic concentration step with similarities to "
methode traditionelle " Champagne wines, though on a much larger scale.The resulting condensate is a very pale and extremely pure lager beer, with an extremely low precipitate concentration and an alcohol percentage typically between 5.0 - 5.2% "v"/"v".The most popular brands of Ice Brewed Beer are Lion Ice Lager, Black Ice (Lion Nathan) and Flame Beer (Dominion Breweries). They are very competitive in price with traditional beers, and in the New Zealand market appeal to the younger demographic (age 18 - 30 years) for their higher alcohol-volume ratios, and lower BU values.
There are a number of smaller independent breweries in New Zealand, the two most significant North Island independents being the Limburg Brewery, in Hastings, Hawkes Bay; and the Galbraith's Ale House in Eden Terrace, Auckland.
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