AtlasPeru10 on record

Peru

South America

Peru brews modern lager in Cusco at over three thousand metres, where water boils below ninety degrees and the chemistry has to be adjusted for altitude. It also still makes chicha de jora, a maize beer that predates the Inca.

Beers on record

Brewing since

1908

PlatePeru1 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 Peru with beers on record
Town	Beers
Cusco	1

Styles here

On the recordcounted from 10 beers

Strength

The median is 5.0% ABV. Half of them fall between 5.0% and 5.0%.

Strongest Cusqueña Quinua6.5%
Weakest Barena4.6%

The record here

Breweries2
Towns2
Styles3

Oldest brewery with a sourced year: Backus and Johnston Brewery, 1879.

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 Peru 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.