The Worlds Best Breweries
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Argentina
Cerveza Quilmes
almost 80% of the Argentine market,is the most popular Argentine beer and an icon to Argentinians. Third in the market is Schneider. The most consumed foreign beers are Heineken and Budweiser
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Argentina
Buller Ligh Lager
Buller Brewing comapny is the first and maybe the only Brew Pub in Buenos. Reviews on this beer are good.
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Austria
Null Komma Josef
A fabulous beer of the Ottakringer brewery is the alcohol free "Null Komma Josef".
Null Komma Josef can be called already the classic one of all alcohol free beers in Austria. Also the beer was voted for the best alcohol free beer according to a beer test of the ÖAMTC magazine in 2002.
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Austria
Gösser Beer
Gösser represents the epitome of Styrian brewing skills and genuine beer pleasure, and is by far Austria's best-known and best-loved beer brand.
Gösser Beer
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is the most popular beer in the federal state of Styria. Not only this. Gösser Beer can also be seen as the symbol of Styria. The green colour which symbolizes the heart of Styria, is also seen on the green Gösser trademark.
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Australia
Foster Brewing Company
Austrailia's best selling beer.
Launched by the Foster Brothers in 1887, this lighter European style lager became the beer of choice for Australian beer drinkers creating a milestone in brewing history - largely thanks to the brothers' innovative refrigeration process. Today, Foster's Lager is one of the fastest growing, truly global beer brands, available in more than 150 countries.
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Demark
Faxe
Faxe, which is Royal Unibrew's strategic export brand, was a generation ago just one of many breweries on Sealand. But since the 1970s, Faxe has effectively abandoned its limited local background to become nationally distributed, and is now the lager brand that represents Royal Unibrew in the European and overseas markets
Royal Unibrew A/S is the second largest brewery group and largest beer exporter in Scandinavia . Its head office is located in Faxe , Denmark and the Group comprises of 12 breweries and one soft drink producer.
In Denmark the Group owns the breweries: Albani, Ceres and Faxe. In Lithuania we own the brewery Kalnapilis and in Latvia we own the breweries Lacplesa Alus and Liva Alus as well as the soft drink producer Cido. In Poland we own the breweries Brok, Strzelec and Lomza, and in the Caribbean we own three breweries on Antigua, Dominica and St.Vincent .
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Canada
Blanche de Chambly
(White of Chambly) was the first bottle
refermented ale produced by Unibroue. It is
brewed from a blend of pale barley malt,
wheat malt and unmalted wheat, to which
they blend selected spices and hops.
Blanche de Chambly is only partially filtered,
retaining its natural cloud of yeast that is
characteristic of the original white ales
brewed during the Middle Ages.
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Canada
Alexander Keiths India Pale Ale
From Canada's maritime province Nova Scotia and the Alexander Keith Brewey comes Keith's India Pale Ale.
was originally crafted for British troops serving in India. The high quality ingredients and the preservative effect of hops kept the beer fresh on the long voyage down the coast of Africa, around the Cape of Good Hope and into the Indian Ocean. This superior ale soon became the favourite of British troops everywhere. With so many soldiers stationed in Halifax, each with a daily 1 gallon ration of beer, it made sense that the city have its own India Pale Ale- or so thought Alexander Keith. In 1820 he began brewing India Pale Ale under his own name. To this day, his fine ale is still produced only in Halifax.
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England
Chiltern Brewery
Founded in 1980, The Chiltern Brewery was one of the first of the "new wave" micro-breweries in England. Now by some margin the oldest working brewery in Buckinghamshire, the brewery has pioneered not only several new types of product with a unique beer relationship, but a revolutionary style of operation too.
Family-owned and run since their launch in 1980,
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England
Samuel Smith
Yorrkshire's oldest brewery. Samuel Smith is one of the few remaining independent breweries in England, and further is the last to utilize the classic Yorkshire Square system of fermentation solely in stone squares.
he Old Brewery at Tadcaster was founded in 1758
The rich Samuel Smith strain of yeast at The Old Brewery dates from the early 1900s. Hops are hand-weighed by the master hop blender, and the brewing water is drawn from a well sunk over 200 years ago.
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England
Moorhouse Brewers
Moorehouse Black Cat a dark refreshing beer with a distictive Chocolate malt taste with a smooth hoppy finish. Winner of numerous awards.
Moorhouse has been producing quality beers since 1865
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England
Theakston
The brewery was founded in 1827. It has won numerous awards for it products non more than Old Peculier.
A rich, dark, smooth-tasting beer with an unequalled flavour. Brewed using the traditional Fuggle hop.
Another popular beer is their Black Bull Bittner
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Germany
Wiehenstephan
Considered to be the oldest Brewery in the world
In the year 725 Saint Corbinian together with twelve companions, founded a Benedictine monastery on Nährberg Hill and, consciously or unconsciously, also founded the art of brewing at eihenstephan.
In 1040 beer brewing officially began at Weihenstephan. That year Abbot Arnold succeeded in obtaining from the City of Freising a licence to brew and sell beer. That hour marked the birth of the Weihenstephan Monastery Brewery
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Germany
Ayinger Brewery
In 1876 Johann Liebhard founded Ayinger Brewery
Men's Journal named Ayinger's Bräu Weisse one of the worlds best beers
Photo: Brewery in 1912
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Germany
Scheider Weisse
Georg I. Schneider acquired the rights to boil wheat beer from King Ludwig II. in 1872 and creator of the original recipe for Schneider Weisse which still holds good today, he is revered by all wheat beer connoisseurs.
Today Schneider Aventinus is rated as one of the world best wheat beers
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Germany
Hoepfner
World Beer Cup Champion Brewery and Brewmaster
Mid-Size Brewing Company 2008 world cup
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Neatherlands
Heineken
The Heineken family entered the beer business in 1864, when Gerard Adriaan Heineken bought a brewery in the heart of Amsterdam. Over the past 140 years, three generations of the Heineken family have built and expanded the brand and the company in Europe and around the world. It is thanks to the leadership of Gerard, Henry and Alfred Heineken that Heineken is one of the world’s leading brewing groups.
Today Heineken is one of the world's leading brewers in terms of sales volume and profitability and has the widest presence of all international brewers through a global network of distributors and breweries. In volume terms, Heineken the largest brewer and beverage distributor in Europe
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Netherlands
Lindeboom
Lindeboom is a small family brewer from Limburg, the southernmost part of the Netherlands They have a very popular following. LIndeboom in English is"Lime tree"
A lime tree remains standing in the brewery courtyard. Lindeboom brews both ales and lagers, including Venloosch Alt (named after the small town of Venlo) and a new line of ales brewed with rye malt called Gouverneur Bier, Gouverneur Brune and Gouverneur Blonde.
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Netherlands
Efes Breweries International N.V
registered in the Netherlands, together with its subsidiaries and affiliates, operates across the Commonwealth of Independent States ("CIS"), Eastern Europe and the Balkans. EBI is listed in the London Stock Exchange ("EBID") with a free float of approximately 30%. Having commenced its operations in 1999 with two breweries in Kazakhstan and Russia, EBI's current operating territory consists of Russia, Moldova, Kazakhstan and Serbia, where the Company has ten breweries with a total annual brewing capacity of 24.6 million hectoliters ("mhl") and an annual malt production capacity of 139, 000 tonnes.
Efes is the dominant beer in Turkey
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Belgium
Belgian beer comprises the most varied and numerous collection of beers in the world
Although beer production in Belgium is now dominated by Inbev (the world's largest brewer by volume) and Alken Maes, there remain 125 breweries in the country, producing about 500 standard beers. When special one-off beer styles are included, the total number of types of Belgian beer exceeds 1000
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Belgian
Westvletern
The Westvleteren Brewery (Brouwerij Westvleteren) is a Belgian brewery founded in 1838 inside the Trappist Abbey of Saint Sixtus of Westvleteren in the Belgian municipality of Westvleteren.
Beerrating.com gave The World's Best Beer award went to Westvleteren 12,
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Chodovar brewery
Located in Chodova Plana Czech
A small family brewery. Chodova Plana was built on ancient cellars cut in granite massif
The oldest written document about the brewery dates back to 1573 when the brewery was owned by the aristocratic family of the Sliks.
The brewery also runs a beer spa
all Labels feature a dog called Albi who is
mentioned in the breweries early history
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Northern Ireland
WhiteWater Brewery
won the accolade in the prestigious International Beer Challenge 2007.
The brewery's main product, Clotworthy Dobbin Ale, captured the attention of the judges who included beer critics, brewers, buyers and retailers.
Its taste and packaging put it ahead of a host of international entries. The company employs just three people. For more info see England
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Scotland
Innis & Gunn
The beer was first made in 2003 when
using oak to age beer was unheard of.
For 30 days this honey-hued beer sleeps in hand selected oak barrels, locked inside a bonded warehouse, gradually assimilating the subtle flavours that reside in the wood. Barrels are then emptied and maturation continues for a further 47 days in a marrying tun where these natural flavours infuse and fall into perfect balance
The flavours imparted by the oak barrels (previously used to mature bourbon) lend an incredible depth of
taste. Think vanilla, toffee and orange aromas, with a malty,
lightly oaked palate; soothing and warm in the finish
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Israel
Dancing Camel
Funny Camel is the the name of
Israel's only microbrewery. They produce
American-Style Pale Ale, India Pale Ale Mid-night Stout and Hefe-Wit
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Japan
Asahi
November 1889
Osaka Brewing Company, the forerunner of Asahi Breweries, Ltd., is established. iN 1892 Asahi beer is launched.
The company launches Asahi Draft Beer 1900, Japan's first bottled non-pasteurized beer. Asahi Beer awarded Grand Prix at Paris World Expo.
The name was changed to Asahi in 1949.
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Mexico
Simpathicu
Many Americans are in to this lager Simpatico
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Mexico
Tijuana
Hand Crafted, Limited Production, Lager beers .
Tijuana Guera, Tijuana Morena, Tijuana Light, Tijuana Brava, Tijuana Bronca and Tijuana Bufadora.
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Poland
Zywiec
Zywiec is one of Poland's top selling beer. Since being established in 1856 strict attention has always been paid to keeping to the original recipe. Zywiec has a hoppy nose and a pleasant golden hue. Its distinctive hop character is aromatic but also has qualities of more resinous Western hop varieties. It is full of flavour, but light in character.
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Romania
Uras Premium
Ursus celebrated 125 years of history in 2003, and it used to be a strong regional brand until it was acquired by SABMiller in 1996. Since then, high investments in technology, distribution and marketing have made the brand one of the leading beers in Romania, with a slogan as powerful as a signature: "Ursus - the King of Beer in Romania".
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Russia
AB GUBERNIJA
GUBERNIJA is one of the oldest industrial brewery which has evolved from the original concept of estate pub and brewery that were not only in Lithuania but in all Baltic states. Historical sources testify that brewery GUBERNIJA has been producing beer since 1665.
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Europe
Breweries
Number of Breweries by Country
Austria 61
Belgium 151
Denmark 42
France 14
Germany 1200 Plus
Ireland 7
Lithuania 87
Poland 65
Sweden13
Switzerland 24
United Kingdom 60
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