AtlasNew Zealand10 on record

New Zealand

Oceania

New Zealand hops changed modern brewing. Varieties bred here produce flavours that exist nowhere else, and they now turn up in beers on every continent, a small country whose largest export to brewing is an ingredient rather than a beer.

Beers on record

Brewing since

1876

PlateNew Zealand7 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 table7

Towns in New Zealand with beers on record
Town	Beers
Dunedin	3
Greymouth	2
Mangatainoka	1
Auckland	1
Queenstown	1
Nelson	1
Takaka	1

Styles here

On the recordcounted from 10 beers

Strength

The median is 5.0% ABV. Half of them fall between 4.0% and 6.8%. Measured on 9 of the 10; the rest carry no strength.

Strongest Old 957.0%
Weakest East India Pale Ale4.0%

The record here

Breweries8
Towns7
Styles3

Oldest brewery with a sourced year: Speight's, 1876.

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 New Zealand 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.