AtlasJamaica5 on record

Jamaica

Central America & Caribbean

Jamaica drinks lager in the sun and stout the rest of the time. The strong dark stout tradition is a British inheritance that took root harder here than it did at home.

Beers on record

Brewing since

1928

PlateJamaica1 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 Jamaica with beers on record
Town	Beers
Kingston	5

Styles here

On the recordcounted from 5 beers

The record here

Breweries1
Towns1
Styles3

Oldest brewery with a sourced year: Desnoes & Geddes, 1918.

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 Jamaica 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.