AtlasIndia13 on record

India

South Asia

India Pale Ale is named for beer shipped here, not beer drunk here. Indians drank very little of it, and the style is a British export legend more than an Indian tradition. What India actually drinks is strong lager, often at eight percent.

Beers on record

Brewing since

1857

PlateIndia3 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 table3

Towns in India with beers on record
Town	Beers
Bangalore	9
Bengaluru	1
Maharashtra	1

Styles here

Pale Lager11

On the recordcounted from 13 beers

Strength

The median is 7.3% ABV. Half of them fall between 4.9% and 7.5%. Measured on 10 of the 13; the rest carry no strength.

Strongest Haywards Black8.0%
Weakest Indus Pride4.8%

The record here

Breweries6
Towns4
Styles1

Oldest brewery with a sourced year: United Breweries Limited, 1890.

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 India 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.