AtlasMexico35 on record

Mexico

Central America & Caribbean

Mexican brewing carries an Austrian accent. Vienna lager arrived with Central European brewers in the nineteenth century, faded in Europe, and survived here, which is why the style's best-known surviving examples are Mexican rather than Austrian.

Beers on record

Brewing since

1865

PlateMexico8 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 table8

Towns in Mexico with beers on record
Town	Beers
Mexicali Municipality	9
Monterrey	8
Tijuana	8
Mexico City	5
Mazatlán	1
Orizaba	1
Guadalajara	1
Mexicali	1

The colour of these beersSRM 4–20 · median 14

Styles here

On the recordcounted from 35 beers

Strength

The median is 5.5% ABV. Half of them fall between 4.5% and 6.5%. Measured on 31 of the 35; the rest carry no strength.

Strongest Nox Arcana9.0%
Weakest VI Berliner de Guayaba3.2%

The record here

Breweries11
Towns8
Styles14

Oldest brewery with a sourced year: Cervecería Moctezuma, 1894.

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 Mexico 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.