Beers By Country

Argentina

Cerveza Quilmes with almost 80% of the Argentine market is the most popular Argentine beer and an icon to Argentineans. Third in the market is Schneider. The most consumed foreign beers are Heineken and Budweiser.

Brazil

Bulgaria

Canada

China

Chinese beer is mostly made in imitation of Western pilsner varieties, has become increasingly popular, first in China in the last century, and then internationally in the last few decades.

Tsingtao is one of the more famous brands of beer made in China, and the most exported to other countries followed by Zhujiang and Yanjing.It is brewed in the city of Qingdao (formerly spelled Tsingtao ) which was a German base in the time of inequal treaties and late-colonial western influence in China.

Denmark

Danish industrialist J. C. Jacobsen revolutionized the world of brewing when his brewery, Carlsberg , bred a pure strain of lager yeast, Saccharomyces carlsbergensi. This enabled the breweries to achieve a large and consistent output, and lager has been the most popular style of beer in Denmark since Carlsberg started selling it in 1847. Smaller breweries in Denmark suffered greatly under the Carlsberg market dominance, especially during the middle of the 20th century, and this led to a large reduction in available beer quality and styles. In recent years the interest in higher quality beer has risen sharply, and the Danish beer landscape is now dotted with several micro breweries and brew pubs, producing a wide range of beers.

France

The French market is dominated by industrial breweries, the Nord-Pas-de-Calais possesses strong brewing traditions and breweries Pelforth, for example), which it shares with its Belgian neighbor across the border. Alsace, also has a strong tradition of brewing beer with bottom fermenting yeasts in the German style. Brittany has experienced a significant revival of its brewing traditions in the past couple of decades and is home to a score or more of micro breweries

Germany

German beer is highly diverse and an important part of Germany's culture . There are around 1300 breweries in Germany more than in any other country except the USA. The German beer market is a bit sheltered from the rest of the world beer market by the German brewers' adherence to the Bavarian Reinheitsgebot ( purity requirement ) dating from 1516, according to which the only allowed ingredients of beer are water ,hops and barley- malt . Many breweries worldwide adopted the Reinheitsgebot for their own beers. After its discovery,yeast became the fourth legal ingredient, though for top-fermenting beers the use of sugar is also permitted. Through this law (which since 1988 has not applied to imported beer, but is still compulsory for German brewers), beers from Germany have a good reputation for their quality. The Germans are behind only the Czechs and the Irish in their per capita consumption of beer

Hungary

The first commercial brewery in Hungary was established in Buda in 1845 by Peter Schmidt. During the heyday of the Austro-Hungarian Empire the Kobánya district of Budapest became the centre of Hungary's brewing industry. The Dreher brewery, named after Anton Dreher (creator of the Vienna lager style) who started a brewery in Budapest in 1862, came to dominate the Hungarian market before the Second World War .

Today Hungary has only four large commercial brewers (three of major significance) which produce mainly lagers (Hungarian: Világos ) and German-style dark beers (Hungarian: Barna ):

Ireland

Brewing in Ireland has a long history and by the beginning of the nineteenth century there were over two hundred breweries in the country. Fifty-five of them are in Dublin . During the nineteenth century the number of breweries fell to about fifty, and to day only about 12.

Historically Ireland produced ale without the use of hops as these are not native to Ireland. Even in the late 18th century hops were not used when almost all other countries had adopted the use of them as an ingredient to preserve and flavour their beer.

Most beer was imported from England and Scotland in the eighteenth century. However in 1756 Arthur Guinness set up a small brewery moving to Dublin in 1759. Having initially brewed bitter he switched to producing porter which was a style from London . Unlike the London beers he used some unmalted roasted barley as this avoided tax (which was on malted barley only), making it more bitter and dry. In the early twentieth century Guinness became the largest brewer in the world, exporting the Irish style to many countries

Irish beer is dominated by Guinness in particular and stout in general.

Norway

Perhaps the most popular beer in Norway. The Aass Bock is a dark "lager" also produced in accordance with the "Purity law". The malted barely is produced in the Scandinavian countries. It is a combination of bayer-, color- and caramel malt.

Aass Brewery was established in 1834 and is the oldest brewery in Norway today. It is located in the city of Drammen, approximately 25 miles south of our capital, Oslo. You will spot it at the banks of the Drammen River at the very same place as it has been since 1834. The Brewry was sold to
Poul Lauritz Aass in 1860 thus the name.

The annual production of beer is aprox. 10 mill liter (85 000 barrels), and together with the production of 18 mill liters of soft drinks and mineralwater it gives employment to approximately 150 people.

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