The atlas
Beer by country
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Belgium
Beer cities: Brussels
Belgian beer culture is UNESCO-listed for good reason: no country ferments with more imagination. Trappist monasteries brew some of the…
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China
Beer cities: Shanghai, Qingdao
China is the world’s largest beer market by volume — home to Snow, the best-selling beer brand on earth, and Tsingtao, its most famous…
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Czechia
Beer cities: Prague
Czechia drinks more beer per person than any nation on earth, and it earned the right: pale lager — the style most of the world simply…
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Germany
Beer cities: Bamberg, Munich
Germany treats beer as regional identity codified in law: the Reinheitsgebot of 1516 still shapes what roughly 1,500 breweries pour, but…
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Ireland
Beer cities: Dublin
Ireland is stout country: dry, black, nitrogen-smooth, and inseparable from the pub culture that serves it. Guinness made the style a…
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Japan
Beer cities: Tokyo
Japan brews with precision. Four giants — Asahi, Kirin, Sapporo, Suntory — perfected the crisp rice lager and the theater of the perfectly…
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United Kingdom
Beer cities: London
The United Kingdom gave beer the pub — and cask ale, porter, IPA, and the modern idea that beer is worth campaigning for (CAMRA, 1971).…
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United States
Beer cities: San Diego, Denver, Portland
The United States rebuilt modern beer. From a post-Prohibition monoculture, the craft revolution grew thousands of breweries and gave the…
93 countries tracked in the atlas so far — pages open as their coverage deepens.