AtlasSweden654 on record

Sweden

Northern Europe

Swedish beer is shaped by the state alcohol monopoly and by a strength threshold: weaker beer sits on supermarket shelves, anything stronger is sold only through the monopoly's own shops. The tax line runs straight through the recipes.

Beers on record

654

PlateSweden8 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 Sweden with beers on record
Town	Beers
Falkenberg	59
Vimmerby	37
Stockholm	15
Romakloster	2
Gothenburg	1
Motala	1
Penryn	1
Uppsala	1

The colour of these beersSRM 8–40 · median 40

On the recordcounted from 654 beers

Strength

The median is 6.2% ABV. Half of them fall between 5.3% and 9.1%. Measured on 652 of the 654; the rest carry no strength.

Strongest CHURCH AMUN-RA SOLERA STOUT17.1%
Weakest Bryggmästarens Alkoholfria0.0%

The record here

Breweries24
Towns13
Styles26

Oldest brewery with a sourced year: Åbro Bryggeri, 1856.

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 Sweden 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.

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Styles here

On the recordcounted from 654 beers

Strength

The record here

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Styles here

On the recordcounted from 654 beers

Strength

The record here

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