The atlas of the world’s beersmap.beer

Every beer, placed
where it came from

A city, a country, a year, and a source for each of them. Start anywhere the map is lit, or let it pick one for you.

Beers on record: 20,793
Countries: 110 of 110
Towns: 1,173
Breweries: 1,947

Fig. 1. Equal Earth projection, ten degree graticule. Shading is beers on record, not beers brewed: a country left dark is a gap in the atlas rather than a country without beer. The spotlight moves between beers drawn at random, one country at a time, so a small country comes up as often as a large one.

Same data as a table110 countries

Countries with beers on record, and how many each has
Country	Most common style	Beers
United States of America	New England IPA	10830
Netherlands	Imperial Stout	4571
Belgium	Pale Ale	1274
Sweden	Imperial Stout	654
Germany	New England IPA	648
Canada	New England IPA	426
United Kingdom	New England IPA	403
Denmark	New England IPA	203
Estonia	New England IPA	186
Latvia	New England IPA	173
Norway	Sour beer	161
France	Pale Ale	148
Austria	Munich Helles	141
Italy	Imperial Stout	89
Russian Federation	New England IPA	79
Australia	Pale Lager	77
Brazil	Pale Lager	72
Spain	Imperial Stout	72
Finland	Pale Lager	62
Japan	Pale Lager	55
Ireland	Stout	51
Czech Republic	Pale Lager	43
Switzerland	Pale Lager	43
Mexico	Pale Lager	35
Poland	Pale Lager	35
Bulgaria	Imperial Stout	19
Greece	Pale Lager	18
India	Pale Lager	13
People's Republic of China	Pale Lager	12
Malta	Pale Lager	11
New Zealand	American Pale Ale	10
Peru	Pale Lager	10
Trinidad and Tobago	Pale Lager	9
Luxembourg	Munich Helles	8
Slovenia	Pale Lager	8
Vietnam	Pale Lager	7
Dominican Republic	Pale Lager	6
El Salvador	Pale Lager	6
Slovakia	Pilsner	6
Argentina	Pale Lager	5
Chile	Pale Lager	5
Jamaica	Stout	5
Uruguay	Pale Lager	5
Hungary	Pilsner	4
Myanmar	Pale Lager	4
Croatia	Lager	3
Lithuania	Pale Lager	3
Mozambique	Pale Lager	3
Panama	Pale Lager	3
Thailand	Pale Lager	3
Venezuela	Pale Lager	3
Colombia	Pale Lager	2
Cook Islands	Pale Lager	2
Guatemala	Pale Lager	2
Honduras	Pale Lager	2
Kenya	Pale Lager	2
Madagascar	Pale Lager	2
Namibia	Pale Lager	2
Nigeria	Pale Lager	2
Philippines	Pilsner	2
Portugal	Pale Lager	2
South Korea	Pale Lager	2
Sri Lanka	Foreign Extra Stout	2
Türkiye	Pale Lager	2
Ukraine	Pale Lager	2
Aruba	Pilsner	1
Belize	Pale Lager	1
Bolivia	Pale Lager	1
Cambodia	Pale Lager	1
Costa Rica	Pale Lager	1
Cote d'Ivoire	Pale Lager	1
Cuba	Pale Lager	1
Democratic Republic of the Congo	Pale Lager	1
Ecuador	Pale Lager	1
Egypt	Pale Lager	1
Eritrea	Pale Lager	1
Ethiopia	Pale Lager	1
Faroe Islands	Pale Lager	1
Fiji	Pale Lager	1
French Polynesia	Pale Lager	1
Ghana	Pale Lager	1
Iceland	Pale Lager	1
Indonesia	Pilsner	1
Israel	Lager	1
Kazakhstan	Pale Lager	1
Lao People's Democratic Republic	Pale Lager	1
Lebanon	Pilsner	1
Macao	Pale Lager	1
Mauritius	Vienna Lager	1
Mongolia	Pale Lager	1
Montenegro	Pale Lager	1
Morocco	Pale Lager	1
Nepal	Pale Lager	1
Papua New Guinea	Pale Lager	1
Paraguay	Pale Lager	1
Romania	Pale Lager	1
Rwanda	Pale Lager	1
Saint Lucia	Pale Lager	1
Samoa	Pale Lager	1
Senegal	Pale Lager	1
Serbia	Pale Lager	1
Singapore	Pale Lager	1
South Africa	Pale Lager	1
State of Palestine	Pale Lager	1
Taiwan, Province of China	Pale Lager	1
Togo	Pale Lager	1
Uganda	Pale Lager	1
United Republic of Tanzania	Pale Lager	1
Zambia	Pale Lager	1
Zimbabwe	Pale Lager	1

Plate IIFrom around the atlasSurprise me

Twelve beers from twelve countries, drawn again on every visit. The country is drawn first, so somewhere small comes up as often as somewhere with a thousand beers on record. These are the ones the map is pointing at.

San Pedro Sula, Honduras

Baltika 3 Classic

Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation

Plate IIIBy styleThe whole family tree

The styles with the most beers on record. What is most recorded is not what is most drunk: the count follows what the sources cover, and they cover modern craft brewing far more closely than the pale lager most of the world actually orders.

Plate IVThe oldest on recordWatch it spread

The twelve earliest beers whose first-brewed year we can point at a source for. Years we could not verify were removed rather than guessed, so this is a shorter list than it used to be and a truer one.

Dubbel

Grimbergen Dubbel

6.5%

Mechelen, Belgium · 1128

Quadrupel

Grimbergen Optimo Bruno

10%

Mechelen, Belgium · 1128

Tripel

Grimbergen Tripel

Mechelen, Belgium · 1128