AtlasGreece18 on record

Greece

Southern Europe

Greek brewing arrived with a Bavarian king. When Otto of Bavaria took the Greek throne in 1832 his court brought brewers with them, and the country's first brewery followed, which is why Greece drinks Bavarian-descended lager rather than anything Mediterranean.

Beers on record

Brewing since

1864

PlateGreece5 towns

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 table5

Towns in Greece with beers on record
Town	Beers
Kifisia	10
Komotini	3
Athens	2
Stoupa	2
Sindos	1

The colour of these beersSRM 5–5 · median 5

Styles here

On the recordcounted from 18 beers

Strength

The median is 5.0% ABV. Half of them fall between 4.7% and 5.2%.

Strongest Vergina Black5.5%
Weakest Fix Anev0.5%

The record here

Breweries6
Towns5
Styles7

Oldest brewery with a sourced year: Fix Hellas, 1864.

Oldest beer with a sourced year: Vergina Lager, 1998.

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 Greece 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.