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Every Country's Most Popular Beer

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  • 19-03-2015 3:32pm
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    BaZmO*
    Registered Users Posts: 18,625 ✭✭✭✭


    small_world_map_of_beer.jpg

    An awful lot on there that i haven't tried.

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    irish_goat
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 5,760 Mod ✭✭✭✭irish_goat


    I can't decide if the branding on China's snow beer is ridiculous or brilliant.

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    BeerNut
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    Very few non-lagers in there. Just ourselves and New Zealand?

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    BaZmO*
    Registered Users Posts: 18,625 ✭✭✭✭BaZmO*


    BeerNut wrote: »
    Very few non-lagers in there. Just ourselves and New Zealand?

    Yeah I was trying to spot any other than Guinness. Algeria have gone with a fruit based orange drink though. ;)

    edit: Google tells me that Lion Red is a Lager-style beer?


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    irish_goat
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    BeerNut wrote: »
    Very few non-lagers in there. Just ourselves and New Zealand?

    Is Lion Red not a lager?

    I'd assume Heineken is very close to the top in Ireland too.


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    BeerNut
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    I assume it's a New Zealand Draught style, which is very similar to Smithwick's and probably also technically a lager, depending how you define that.

    Very few non-pale beers, then ;)

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    rubadub
    Registered Users Posts: 32,373 ✭✭✭✭rubadub


    I wonder how accurate it is, seems odd there is such variation. I wouldn't have thought carling would be the UK best seller, or tuborg in Denmark. I never saw snow beer in china, tsingtao was everywhere.
    irish_goat wrote: »
    I'd assume Heineken is very close to the top in Ireland too.
    I was surprised at this claim

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_Gold#Irish_retailing
    In the Irish canned beer market, Dutch Gold has a market share of between 11% and 14%, making it the nation's third most popular beer after Budweiser and Heineken
    I am guessing this was lagers and not including guinness. The quote is from 2006.


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    GLaDOS
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,202 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    rubadub wrote: »


    I am guessing this was lagers and not including guinness. The quote is from 2006.

    It does specify canned beer, I'd guess canned Guinness wouldn't be nearly as popular as draught.

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    NIMAN
    Registered Users Posts: 32,977 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    Jez, North America has no taste in beer, have they?;)


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    Zaph
    Registered Users, Subscribers Posts: 47,274 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    Very surprised to see Carling as the no. 1 in South Africa. When I was there everywhere you went it was Castle, I don't recall ever seeing Carling. Similarly in Italy, I would have expected Peroni ahead of Moretti. And weirdly I've never even heard of the no. 1 brand in Germany, Oettinger. I know they've a huge choice of beers there, but I would have expected a better known brand like Becks or Warsteiner to be the best selling.


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    irish_goat
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    Zaph wrote: »
    And weirdly I've never even heard of the no. 1 brand in Germany, Oettinger. I know they've a huge choice of beers there, but I would have expected a better known brand like Becks or Warsteiner to be the best selling.

    According to Wiki.
    Cheap beer
    Oettinger sells large amounts of beer for the lowest possible price. Oettinger bought the brewery producing "5,0 Original" beer in Braunschweig, a competitor in the same market segment. Oettinger is rarely found on tap in pubs and bars – most of it is sold bottled in supermarkets.

    I've had their weiss and it's alright. Less than a €1 a bottle if I remember rightly.


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    joe90
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    Lion Red is a very nice beer.


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    J Mysterio
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    Map is a good idea, badly executed.


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    Ryath
    Registered Users Posts: 3,372 ✭✭✭Ryath


    What's the most anyone's tried? Have had 19 of them though a lot I only drank when young or on holidays when there was little other choice. Very few I'd drink by choice now.


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    irish_goat
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    Ryath wrote: »
    What's the most anyone's tried? Have had 19 of them though a lot I only drank when young or on holidays when there was little other choice. Very few I'd drink by choice now.

    I've had about 36, wouldn't rush back to pretty much any of them either.


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    poitinstill
    Registered Users Posts: 732 ✭✭✭poitinstill


    im counting around 34 ... mostly muck


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    munchkin_utd
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    irish_goat wrote: »
    According to Wiki.
    I've had their weiss and it's alright. Less than a €1 a bottle if I remember rightly.
    Öttinger costs way less than that. More like 30c per 500ml bottle when bought by the crate, and a little less again on a deal.


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    BaZmO*
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    munchkin_utd wrote: »
    Öttinger costs way less than that. More like 30c per 500ml bottle when bought by the crate, and a little less again on a deal.

    That can't be right. Surely if alcohol was sold so cheaply society as we know it would crumble to the ground?!


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    matrim
    Registered Users Posts: 7,515 ✭✭✭matrim


    Think I've had about 33 of them.

    An interesting side map would be one with your owners of the beers (e.g diageo)


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    penev10
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    I've had 28. Out of those I'd say there's at most 5 I'd order in a pub.


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    hfallada
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    BaZmO* wrote: »
    That can't be right. Surely if alcohol was sold so cheaply society as we know it would crumble to the ground?!

    You can go to Lidl in Germany and pick up 6 500 ml Bottles of Beer for €1.20. The deposit on the plastic bottled is actually 25cent a bottle,so the bottle costs more than the beer. A bottle of vodka is €5 and a bottle of Prosecco is only €2(same one costs €10 in Lidl here).

    However the Germans are allowed to drink in public(go to the English Garden in Munich on a hot Summer day and everyone is drinking). There is open end on Bars and drink are a lot cheaper than here. You dont see everyone getting wasted before they go to the Club, as a pint in the club is €3/3.5. Also you dont see everyone plastered on the street at 3 am when the clubs close(eg Temple Bar is a mess when all the clubs close at once), as Germans only go to the club at 1am and will probably leave at 6 am.

    Our restrictive Alcohol laws havent resulted in responsible drinking. It has resulted in people leaving clubs at 3am to go to dodgy industrial estates to go to raves. Which are a disaster waiting to happen.


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    BaZmO*
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    I was being sarcastic.


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    sarkozy
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    Zaph wrote: »
    Very surprised to see Carling as the no. 1 in South Africa. When I was there everywhere you went it was Castle, I don't recall ever seeing Carling. Similarly in Italy, I would have expected Peroni ahead of Moretti. And weirdly I've never even heard of the no. 1 brand in Germany, Oettinger. I know they've a huge choice of beers there, but I would have expected a better known brand like Becks or Warsteiner to be the best selling.
    Carling Export is, I can attest, a ver popular beer among the ordinary black population across the region. It's cheaper and just more popular. That explains the popularity. See, a beer like Castle is associated with working-class and lower-middle-class white South Africans, and increasingly better-off blacks. Hansa would be a bit more up-market than those, definitely a much more aspirational brand, and their pilsner and marzen are pretty good.. Smaller populations, though, so that probably explains it.


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    GusJackson
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    I am disappointed they didn't include Malawi. When I was there the only brand of beer they seemed to have was Carlsberg that had been brewed in Malawi - struck me as being completely wrong to not have their own locally named beer!


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    Saruman
    Registered Users Posts: 11,389 ✭✭✭✭Saruman


    So, what's the best beer on that map then?
    I haven't had them all but I'm going to go out on a limb and say Guinness?


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    Ravelleman
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 3,635 CMod ✭✭✭✭Ravelleman


    I was convinced that I saw Pilsner Urquell on the map but I was sadly mistaken.

    Failing that I'd probably go for Zlatý Bažant, which is quite nice.


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    Saruman
    Registered Users Posts: 11,389 ✭✭✭✭Saruman


    Which one? I recall the regular lager as undrinkable(to me) but they seem to have a porter and bock that are well received.


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    Ravelleman
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    Golden Pheasant. I've only had it a couple of times but quite enjoyed it, for a lager.


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    #29
    Carawaystick
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    ScienceNerd wrote: »
    It does specify canned beer, I'd guess canned Guinness wouldn't be nearly as popular as draught.

    or canned draught ....

    All this shows is that a plurality is a poor measure when there's lots of choices. North America having some of the best beers is poorly represented by it's popular choices


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    buck65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,969 ✭✭✭buck65


    If there ever was proof needed that America and the UK are ****ed up nthere you have it.
    Swill.


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