What is the best beer country in the world?
Per person the Czechs have led the world since 1993; by sheer volume nobody comes close to China. Pick which kind of winning counts.
1GermanyHome of the 1516 purity law, Oktoberfest and more than a thousand breweries.1000pts
2JapanAsahi, Kirin and Sapporo built a precision lager culture, plus a serious craft scene in Tokyo.736pts
3DenmarkCarlsberg gave brewing its pure yeast strain and its research laboratory; Mikkeller gave it gypsy brewing.627pts
4AustriaThird in the world for beer per person, and the birthplace of the Vienna lager.579pts
5AustraliaBeer is the national drink, and the cold lager was engineered for the climate.463pts
6ChinaDrinks more beer than any other country, and has done for 22 straight years.463pts
7United StatesSecond in total volume and home to more breweries than any other country, though craft is now contracting.392pts
8IrelandStout country, fourth in the world for beer per person, and the pub as a cultural export.392pts
9United KingdomCask ale, the pub, and the bitter that most of the beer world's vocabulary came from.392pts
10PolandOne of Europe's biggest beer markets by volume, with a fast-growing craft sector.309pts
11CanadaMolson dates to 1786, and the country drinks its lager cold enough to leave a frost line.309pts
12Czech RepublicInvented the pilsner in 1842 and has led the world in beer per person every year since 1993.210pts
13BelgiumIts beer culture is on UNESCO's intangible heritage list, with roughly 1,500 beers across wild and monastic traditions.210pts
14NetherlandsSmall country, enormous export machine: Heineken and Amstel pour on every continent.0pts
15MexicoCorona, Modelo and Pacifico turned a lager style borrowed from Austria into a global beach drink.0pts
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