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The Weekend Is Over But Here Is The Most Popular Beer In Every Nation Of The World
While "Bud" will ensure the local treatment in almost every bar in America, what should you order in Ukraine (or Madagascar) to 'fit in'?
The map below brings together dozens of sources, from research reports to corporate filings, to reveal the most popular beers in over 100 countries.
As you can see, the beer brands of the world are as diverse as our planet itself - though a handful of massive multinational brewers own a staggering number of these brands.
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Irrefutable proof that most americans prefer drinking water over beer.
I'm totally cool with that, more malt and hops for me.
Like I always say... watching monkeys with balls, drinking fake beer, and fucking dirty whores... that's the 'Merican way.
It's only got about 5% of the market..., if that. There are just too many good beers around, and everybody has a different fav. Your map is very deceiving...
"Irrefutable proof that most americans prefer drinking water over beer."
Correction...
Irrefutable proof that most americans prefer drinking PISS over beer.
(Disclosure: Lived in Germany for 5 years.)
Keystone
Light
America's favorite is a light beer? I dunno, seems kind of gay.
Iran's fav is also light. Coincidence?
more and more of the beers are high fructose corn syrup.
Ahhhhh. Already my FAV ZH article ever!
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"Drinking American beer is like having sex in a canoe: it's both fucking close to water!"
p.s. England is not a country, but I guess WW2 was already quite a while ago. ("war is God's way of teaching Americans geography")
Heineken
Irrefutable proof that most americans like most people in the world are idiots for drinking this corporate swill.
Whenever I´m visiting family on Long Island, I never see anyone drinking Bud anymore. It´s just so outclassed, especially by all the micro brewers out there.
One alternative is to make your own alcohol, illegally. Numerous Scandinavian people with the financial means for it make such attempts. The idea is to get around high prices and/or taxes on alcohol which are in place in Nordic countries however, not so much to issue a voice of protest against corporatism.
The problem is that illegal alcohol isn't without risks. I personally know of someone who died from poisoning.
Beyond that, I recommend Belgian beers.
Correction: Americans pay for beer, but get water without noticing it.
That there map tells you all you need to know about why there will never be a United States of Europe and I'm dead serious and good for them.
Americans will drink one brand of horse piss beer if it is stuck between the inner thighs of a hot woman. InBev owns you beer swillers.
American beer is like making love in a canoe....
Fucking close to water!
Baltika isn't much better. Most of those beers are lite lagers or pilsners. Seems the entire world lacks taste.
Start working at home with Google ! Its by-far the best mixed bag of goods I've had. Last Thursday I got a trademark new Bmw since getting a check for $6474 this - 4 weeks past. I began this 8-months ago and immediately was coming with house at least $77 per hour. I work through this connection, go.to tech marker for work detail.... www.globe-report.com
The world,s most popular beers are Heineken and Corona.
Zh bad ..
Never bought a Budweiser in my live.
Maybe, but you have drunk it.
I did for the first time in my life on the weekend.... in an eatery in Mindoro, Philippines. I could not believe it when the waitress told me they only stocked Budweiser. No RedHorse or even San Mig Lite on the premises! It will definitely be the last time!
Bud Light? That explains the maxim - No one has ever lost money underestimating the taste or the intelligence of the American public.
Well, look at it this way. With a lack of sophisticated palate, the difference between Soylent red, yellow and green won't be discerned and riots won't ensue.
I think it's time for a nice Scotch. I could use some Liquid Smile.
Miffed
Nailed it.
The most popular beer is the cold one I hold in my hand at the moment.
Pop a top again, just have time for another one.
... ???
The Saudi's drink Beer ???
Who knew.
Go to Bahrain for a holiday (seriously). You'll be amazed how many Saudi 'religious' fuckers are boozing up there - insane (even worse than the Brits in Spain). Same goes for the 'religious asses of most parts of Indonesia. "Dealth to those who drink', but they're all driving to a next village to booze them up and mess with the local girls.
Pathetic.
........while I generally dislike any group that holds that holier than thou attitude ........ ummmmm it'd be hypocritical of me to criticize their behaviour .....
but seriously it absolutely backs up my belief that any group of fucktards that holds themselves superior in any way to the rest of us reprobates are utterly fuller of shit than I ........ so fuck it I say slap that ass Abdullah ....... you know what you really are and all the head bangin' is all for show just like the rest of those pseudo pious motherfuckers
I thought Fosters was Australian for beer.......
Fosters... Australian for "No one drinks it here, so we export it."
You must be mistaken. I received the information from my TV........
VB is shit. Fosters is marginally better.
Coopers is the King, unless you want to go broke drinking the fancy stuff.
Coopers is indeed the choice that will let your bar-mates know that you are savvy re Aussie brews.
To me, though, VB is a cut above Fosters (which I've never seen drunk by an actual Australian).
Yep, Coopers is tops with me. Family owned and refuse to sell out to the big boys. Are you a South Aussie by any chance?
Agree VB is definitely way above Fosters, and I have seen that drunk by Aussies, but must be getting close to 30 years ago now. They tried to bring out a "special edition" os so-called Fosters recently. It quickly became a joke when it was found to be 4.0% alcohol. Pretty sure it will again disappear from Aussie bottle shops for at least another 20 years.
Was always a Coopers sparking ale man myself, sometimes switching to the odd stout over winter. Last year I bought the pale ale as there must have been a run on the reds - it wasn't available at any of the local bottlos - so now I switch between all three. Heck even the Coopers mild actually tastes more like beer than the usual VB/Fosters/XXXX/Emu/Tasman full strengths.
WA here.
Fucken Tooheys New ya cunts!
You like the taste of dirt?
Nah mate... just the fucken taste of a good fucken beer. You wudnt kno that tho cause ya drink fucken crownies!
Fuck you, Cunt
Straya Cunts¡
I think (American consumed) Fosters (like the faux-German Becks) is made in St. Louis, MO. Only the name is exported.
export ONLY
Latest Australian stats show VB is no longer No. 1 - overtaken by Carlton Draught.
http://www.roymorgan.com/findings/6022-are-people-who-drink-aussie-beer-...
1. Carlton Draught (VIC) 17%
2. Victoria Bitter (VIC) 12%
2. XXXX Gold (QLD) 12%
4. Cooper's Pale Ale (SA) 11%
5. Crown Lager (VIC) 8%
5. James Boag's Premium (TAS) 8%
5. Toohey's Extra Dry (NSW) 8%
8. Cascade Premium Light (TAS) 7%
8. James Squire (NSW) 7%
8. Pure Blonde (VIC) 7%
Of the Top 10 - only Cooper's Pale Ale is Australian-owned these days after Foster's/ CUB was bought out! (Carlton Draght, VB, Crown Lager, Cascade Premium Light, Pure Blonde of the above beers.
thank god for craft beer.........fuck that goat piss corporate swill
Founders..."Dirty Bastard"
Fuck yea.
http://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/1199/7463/
Dirty Bastard is great stuff - recently ordered a couple cases! (Unfortunately can't buy it locally.)
I'm always suspect of alcoholic beverages with catchy names like "Dirty Bastard" or in way over the top fancy bottles as if they need gimmicks like that to have any chance otherwise to sell their product!
Hear ya, but Dirty Bastard is very good stuff, highly rated (if you like it, not everyone would). Scotch Ale, "wee heavy".
On the other hand, started buying Trader Joe's "Vodka of the Gods", $10.99 for 1.75L, for my wife. As the Trader Joe's sign says, "Great for Jungle Juice" (which is how she drinks it). Why waste Grey Goose on jungle juice!
Pfft. Arrogant Bastard, you're not worthy.
Bud Light is s not a beer, it's been drunken once or twice, and then distilled.
"Slow Kidney Filtered"
Such a marketable slogan.
Spaten Optimator. Das ist bier!
Totally agree.
On tap is best, but very hard to find.
Out of the bottle poured hard to rid of as much carbonation as possible, and then chilled to near freezing, brings it back toward tap.
I'm aging some in a dark place and will start sampling at 4 years.
I'll have to try that. Had it before and wasn't impressed with the normal approach.
BUD is the worst beer I have ever tasted
My favorite beer is Seagrams 7.
Thats what I think too, beer is just half finished fermented sour mash hog swill that gives you bloated belching gas. Coming from a long line of whisky makers, beer is what you run through the still to finish it into something you can really enjoy.
For me its "Weller and Water, Wonderful"
I just dont like having to.get up to pee all night.
Would that be 12 yo Weller?
I must admit I have only been to the U S once when I was 19/20. I wasnt allowed to drink !! It was a big shock seeing as I had been working in a UK bar the last 2 years and had been a regular at our local pub for the last 3 years. To compensate myself one night I went to the cinema and was turned away from "Total Recall" I didnt have my ID. There I am travelling around the world by myself trying to all cool and exotic to the local women and I am not allowed a drink !! The U S was seriously not what I was expecting.
Gubmint will hand a gun to an 18 year old, dress em in a fancy uniform, and order em murder other people. Yet it is illegal for them buy a drink.
It used to be 18, but too many teens were drinking, driving, and having their brains scattered all over the highways, so MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Drivers for you non-Americans out there ) was enacted and they went on the warpath until every politician caved and made 21 the law of the land. In Germany you can drink at 16, (booze at 18) but what keeps the young from drinking and driving is what happens if your young and get busted. Your driving licence is taken away if ANY alchohol amount is detected (and it costs about €2500-€3000 to get one in the first place!), your heavily fined, your car insurance does not cover any alchohol related damages, and to get your licence back you have to pass psychological tests, go through counciling, and submit to medical screenings. It´s a nightmare. I believe starting at 23 you can have a blood alcohol level up to 0.05 and still keep your licence, but if it is over that, the consequences are the same.
Or in places in this country to have a cigarette and or a lip, dip, chew. Remember it is the "Land of the Free" lol
Don't feel bad. It hasn't turned out to be what I expected either and I was born here.
I must admit when I have only been to the U S once when I was 19/20. I wasnt allowed to drink !! It was a big shock seeing as I had been working in a UK bar the last 2 years and had been a regular at our local pub for the last 3 years. To compensate myself one night I went to the cinema and was turned away from "Total Recall" I didnt have my ID. There I am travelling around the world by myself trying to all cool and exotic to the local women and I am not allowed a drink !! The U S was seriously not what I was expecting.
@wednesdayfan
Yeah some "free country," huh? Want to see a movie? Show government ID. Want a beer? Show government ID. Want to smoke some fucking plant that grows wild in your back yard? No, that'll land you in jail.
I'm guessing Sheffield.
Scouse
Moussy? No wonder the Saudi soldiers have blue faces.
Can't figure out Germany's favorite. Did like Stuttgarter Hofbrau.
I may be raging over this silly piece, but no decent Canadian would drink bud. Who are these sad people who order bud?? Canadian is mediochre enough, but bud ...blech.
I know right? I'm Canadian, and I've been to a lot of bars, and consumed a lot of beer over the last few decades, and I've never seen Bud, except once a couple years ago, in cans, in the office fridge at my work...where it sat for over a week because no-one would drink it.
I made the observation that it smells like when you leave cheap take-out chinese food in your fridge too long...and shortly after, I figured out why. It even tells you on the label. It's made from....ROTTEN RICE! Seriously! Who does that? More to the point, who would drink it. No Canadian I've ever met. Seriously.
I don't know a single Canadian who drinks Bud. There's definitely something wrong with that map.
Interesting. Last time I was is Saudi, alcohol was illegal as in getchur ass caned or worse. So what's that favorite beer again?
In strict muslim countries like Saudi or Iran or Dubai, there still are some alcohol makers (let's put it this way). First purpose is medical = desinfection, second is stuffing the princes with booze and third, giving the tourists what they expect.
Quatar is thinking about lifting the alc ban for the world soccer cup in 2022. Arabs will soon learn, why alcohol is forbidden for the plebs (hint: Hooligans)
Then the ass caning will resume...
Politically correct beer snobs .... can't we enjoy a single thing .... without the whole chorus of gadflies .... enlightening us on what we're doing wrong .... that's what liberals do .... leave your stupid remarks at home .... and go have a pint of ale at the pub .... you all need one !
Well said
Beer does not require disrespect
Fruity beers deserve double disrespect.
Maybe that was a little harsh .... carry on !
On the Argentine/Brasil border I was served a Kil-mes....then some banditos from Paraguay tried...saved by the local policia. Kil-mes never forget it. A marketing fiasco on a par with selling the Nova (translates to 'no go') in Spanish speaking countries.
Remember Michelob Dry? That stuff was fuckin' awesome.
I knew those Ethiopian kids had beer bellies! Fucking lying bastard Bob geldof
Only two kinds of beer.
Good beer
Acceptable beer.
If one is willing to accept the burden of snobbery then it is OK to look with disdain upon other peoples choices....Better be able to tell Bud from Guiness blinded though or your entire effort will come to naught.
Who alive could not tell Bud from Guiness?
We have never been so fortunate .... as to have the market place .... serve up .... the most astounding array of beer and ale .... for every taste and budget .... enjoy !
I thought Canada would have some weird Canukistani lager, but why they would choose American piss I just do not know.
Don't let the middle east fool ya though. They drink heavily, they just don't want to admit to it.
Well I can assure you, from where I sit that map is full of shit. Canada DOES HAVE some weird Canukistani beer as it's #1 seller. It's called Molson Canadian. Budweiser isn't even in the top five. So your guess is good as mine about how accurate the rest of that chart is. 'Not very' would be my guess.
Here is a great old Molsen ad called "Chasing Beaver"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y09YOkVmGg0
I'm quaffing Kokanee right now.
The melting snow has revealed, in the ditches of the grid roads, the bud light tracks of our local drive around beer drinker.
Good choice. Kokanee rocks. Have one for me too.
that's canadian budweiser. don't confuse it with the american swill. it is canadian swill but much better than most american beers. all the commercial beers bought in canada are much, much better than the american version. molson red draft was a great beer in 1970.
Give me a 15 pack of Founders All Day. ...... Everyday.
Sierra Nevada's Hop Hunter IPA is worth a try.
HoldBuySell- I used to work for them. Ever since SNB started using what's called a Torpedo mechanism that works like dry hopping but intensifies the hop it has changed many of the original recipes that were really good.
The original IPA and the Celebration were top notch. Now they're not the same which is a shame.
However if you ever get a chance around sept to get to chico, ca they have an Octoberfest that's this side of heaven.
Cheers my friend.
I think Yungeling is the best beer at a good price. College kid advice for other young people who visit this site and want a good tasting beer or 12!
Ive drunk enough of the beers on that chart to come to the comclusion that popular isnt anywhere near the same as good.
That said, it seems like a good list of "Beers to avoid around the world"
PS
Hey, come on. Beer Lao's on that list. Beer Lao Dam is even better.
beer is like pizza and sex... when it's good, it's really good... when it's bad, it's still pretty good...
American beer is a little like making love in a canoe; it's fucking close to water.
The local Thai restaurant serves Chang and Singha. They are both pretty good and sold in 22 oz bottles.
Yes to the 22 ozs., but other than for the novelty, can't agree. Bin Tang in Indonesia is pretty good.
Sorry Tyler, I call bullshit!
Budwiser is the most popular beer in Canada? That pisswater?
BULLSHIT!!!
Squid.
it is piss. But i would probably put it third after
heineken and corona...as in " world famous" as this bs article says.
Bud Light.....so fucking weak.
Mean Old Tom - Maine Beer Company
http://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/20681/56545/
An American-style stout aged on organic vanilla beans. Intense notes of coffee and dark chocolate lead way to subtle notes of natural vanilla. Flaked oats generate a silky mouthfeel.
Wonderful in appearance and texture. The chocolate is there without tasting like a piece of candy and the coffee does not overpower the finish. Great on a cold day.
B.A. rating 89 out of 100
the cheapest beers in the world is probably more accurate, econ101, each country's swill. i have to testify that canada's budweiser used to be much better than the american brand. if canada hasn't changed their brewing rules, it probably still does tatse better than most american corporate beers.
First beer I ever had I shared with a neighbor. It was Hamm's.
From the land of sky blue waters. Ah to wind the cock back
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JP8JgQxXO8U
winding cocks now, eh? how nice. yuk yuk
Hamm's is the best beer from Minnesota besides Schmidt's and Pig's Eye. But I was born in Wisconsin and everyone knows the best beer ever made there is Old Milwaukee. Either that or the worst beer ever made but their commercials were a pretty good line of bullshit. They still make it for some reason.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gsd5kswuJuQ
I don't know. I thought Grain Belt and the original Leinenkugel rocked. But in those days we were all about quantity over quality. Cases of glass bottle Leinenkugel went for about six bucks or something ghastly cheap.
Brainmelt is not too bad actually. That's a beer from New Ulm. Those guys have some fun there with Oktoberfest. The NordEast Brainmelt is not too bad either. Never cared for Lienies except for the HoneyWeiss but it has to be on tap to be good. If you can find Surly from Brooklyn Center that is a great beer but it is hard to find and it will cost you an arm and a leg. Summit has some good beers too.
I like the darker Baltika from near Russia. I always take the 7% version but I only know one place to find it and that is at Kramarczuks in Northeast Mpls.
You sure this ain't the shittiest beer by country.
I see some rotten brews listed that have seen their market share decline for 20 years now.
hahahahahahahahaha budweiser, that's not beer.....what a silly post.....
Given the other article on ZH today about Christian vs Muslim population, I would take this as a distribution of Muslim-majority countries (or those that are so impoverished they don't have clean water).
I'm surprised arabs even drink beer (let alone shiite iranians). Isn't that supposed to be illegal? Iran should brew up a new one and call it "death to america". Then they could use all those demonstrations in their tv commercials.
Sagres in Portugal over Super Bock? Have a hard time believing that one...
Bud's new "honest" labelling:
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All you snobbing it up over over beer brands and tastes and I guaran-fucking-tee you if you spent 10-12 hours in a 110+ degree canyon digging out, classifying and sluicing sediment containing [hopefully!] gold and at days end someone hands you a Pabst or Budweiser from the bottom of a cooler full of ice YOU WOULD DRINK THAT FUCKER LIKE IT WAS THE LAST DROP OF LIQUID ON THIS PLANET AND ASK FOR ANOTHER!
Now, I don't go out of my way to buy pilsner/light beers in general (Newcastle has been my fav of late, or bourbon and water, or straight on the rocks), but they evolved for a purpose, they're more oriented towards refreshing and thirst quenching.
They also, in my experience, have a way different taste when consumed cold after sweltering in the sun working as opposed to guzzling 10 of them off a ping pong table in a basement...
It's not snobbery. If I had been picking up hay all day, I wouldn't hesitate to drink a cold one , although some Chinese beers are gag -inducing.
But in NZ the big breweries are buggered. Even when they buy a craft brewery in no time they manage to ruin it.
But eventually the restraint-of -trade agreement expires and the craft beer comes back as something else.
Sure we would. If it was the only beer.
If I actually have a choice, I'm not going to pick something that uses cheap adjuncts like rice to get fermentables into the beer without adding (gasp!) taste. I'll buy something made by actual beer enthusiasts who are not catering to the lowest common denominator.
If you like beer, now is the best time in history to be alive. Can't say that about much else.
Lots of great micros here in the NW. Right now sitting with a Deschutes Red Chair...mmmm.
In NZ , just finished a Tuatara Porter, now onto a Tuatara IPA.
Lion Red, what a joke: weasel piss.
Yep. Some of the best IPA in the universe comes from microbreweries in the Pacific North West. Right now I'm stuck on Driftwood's 'Fat Tug'. If you like being smashed in the face with hops, it's amazeballs.
WS, I like the reviews at Ratebeer & Beeradvocate, so will look for Driftwood's 'Fat Tug' soon. Cheers!
You know why making love in a canoe is the same thing as American beer?
Because both are fucking close to water.
Anhaeuser-Busch Natural Light, a light pilsner for drinking on hot summer days.
"Bud" is beer?
Like war is peace
no way is budweiser the number one selling beer in canada, just watch the movie STRANGE BREW for hints as to what those hoseurs actually drink.
"Luke! Come to the dark side, you knob."
All the beer on these premises has been passed by the management...
With our idiot population, I figured it would of been duff
Is your beer NON-GMO BEER? Mine is... Check yours out: http://www.gmofreebeer.com/gmo-beer-listing.html
Partay on!
This ain't right... http://asset-7.soup.io/asset/0807/3923_7614.jpeg We want a Beerpair map!
northwest...."blue moon" beer with an orange slice.
I haven't tried one yet. However, I must say, I feel compelled to hand you a small umbrella for your beverage.
Back to killin' snakes...
Lemon slice.
http://www.horsepissbeer.com/
My most popular beer is the one that's in my hand....
IPA's! Number 1, on my list, Ballast Point's 'Sculpin', 2. Firestone's 'Union Jack' and finally, a long time, fav; Sierra Nevada's Torpedo.
For the Shop, we mainly drink the original Coors, in the yellow can. It is not a bad beer at all. Far better than Coors Light...
Old Engine Oil - Scotland ( yes. it's black )
Theakstons Old Perculiar - Northern UK (soemwhere in Yorkshire)
The Dog's Bollocks - UK
Newcastle Brown (aka. Bottle of Dog) - Northern UK ( City of Newcastle)
Budweiser Budvar (various dark & pale largers) - Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic - the original Budweiser before a US corporation stole the name.
to be cont'd
The micro brewer in the kitchen with the fermenter in the cellar produces my favorite beer.
Canada's favorite beer is Budweiser? How lame is that?
These are listed by sales, of course the cheapest beers are going to come in first place. When throwing parties, you buy the cheaper stuff. It is by no means the best tasting beer.
Try drinking, and investing, in Panther Brewing. I got a few cans years ago and they went way up in value to ten bucks a can.
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I like San Miguel when I can find it. When MacArthur left the Philippines and said, "I shall return" he meant it. He was part owner of the brewery.
Bud light aka piss water.
I'll continue to buck the trend like a good little rebel and enjoy my Samuel Smith's Oatmeal Stout.
How did this country end up with such poor taste alongside the capacity to mass produce high quality?
Krystal Weise