AtlasDemocratic Republic of the Congo1 on record

Democratic Republic of the Congo

Central Africa

Brewing in the Congo is as much a logistics achievement as a brewing one. Beer moves by river to towns that no road reliably reaches, which makes a cold bottle a genuine feat of distribution.

Beers on record

Brewing since

1923

PlateDemocratic Republic of the Congo1 town

Fig. 2. Circle area is beers on record for that town. Labels appear as room allows, so zooming in reveals towns rather than enlarging them. Only towns whose coordinates could be sourced are drawn, so an unmarked town means a missing coordinate rather than a town without beer. Tiles from OpenFreeMap and OpenMapTiles, data from OpenStreetMap.

Towns as a table1

Towns in Democratic Republic of the Congo with beers on record
Town	Beers
Kinshasa	1

Styles here

Pale Lager1

On the recordcounted from 1 beer

The record here

Breweries1
Towns1
Styles1

Oldest brewery with a sourced year: Brasserie Simba / Bralima, 1923.

These are facts about this record, not about the world. They are counted from the beers on file, and the atlas is only as deep as its sources: 74% of everything it holds is American or Dutch, because that is what the bulk import reached, not because that is where beer is. So the styles most often recorded in Democratic Republic of the Congo are not necessarily the ones most often brewed there, and a country with few beers here has a thin record rather than a thin brewing scene.

1 beer

Primus

Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo