AtlasMalta11 on record

Malta

Southern Europe

Malta brews in a British idiom rather than a Mediterranean one, a legacy of a century and a half as a naval station, which is why the national beer is an ale on an island of wine drinkers.

Beers on record

Brewing since

1928

PlateMalta1 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 Malta with beers on record
Town	Beers
Birkirkara	11

Styles here

On the recordcounted from 11 beers

Strength

The median is 4.7% ABV. Half of them fall between 4.0% and 5.6%.

Strongest Cisk Strong9.0%
Weakest Hopleaf Session Pale Ale3.5%

The record here

Breweries1
Towns1
Styles4

Oldest brewery with a sourced year: Simonds Farsons Cisk, 1928.

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 Malta 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.