Brands of Beer

For over a hundred centuries, drinkers around the world have enjoyed their sips of chilled beer. There have been many brands of beer manufactured over the years. This has led to production of many types of beer with different flavor, body and color. The styles of beer are largely classified as lager or ale. These two classification of types of beer contain a list of many beer varieties.

Beer drinking is the favorite pastime for many and a glass of ale is the most relaxing thing in the world. Beer is made from four ingredients, hops, malted barley, yeast and water. Many brands also add spices, fruits and vegetables to their recipes. There are many types of beer, that depend on the kind of yeast used during their creation and by the temperatures used to ferment the beer. Yeast that ferments and lower temperatures is used to make lager beer and yeast that ferments at higher temperatures is used to make ale. Let us understand the different types of beer.

Types of Beer

Types of Lager

Pale Lager
These are light colored and light bodied beers that are highly carbonated with a light taste. The best brands of beer that produce pale lager are Budweiser and Coors.

Pilsner
The pale color beer that looks like a pale lager is a pilsner. It has a more bitter taste and the flavors of pilsner are more distinctive than a pale lager.

Light Lager
The American light lager contains less hops and barley that is used to produce low-calorie beers. The European light lagers are pale in color with light taste.

Dark Lager
The beer made from roasted hops and barley are dark lager beers. They have a rich flavor and are obviously dark in color. They are full-bodied beers.

Types of Ale

Brown Ale
The brown ale beer has a red to copper color with a mild flavor.

Porter
The Porter is dark in color and full-bodied. It has barley flavor as the dominating flavor. They are richly flavored and may even taste like chocolate.

Stout
The stout beer is like a porter beer, but is the darkest and the thickest of all beers. It has a strong barley and hop flavor.

Different Brands of Beer

Every drinker is bound to have his or her favorite brand of beer. The glass that gives them a relaxing feeling and adds to their personality, becomes their brand of beer. Brands tend to become popular due to region, price, country and season. Let us see the names of some favorite international beers in America.

International Best Brands

• Corona Extra
• Corona Light
• Heineken
• Labatt Blue
• Tecate
• Guinness
• Foster's Lager
• Amstel Light
• Bass Ale
• Modelo Especial

American Brands List

• Bud Light
• Budweiser
• Coors Light
• Miller Lite
• Natural Light
• Busch,
• Busch Light
• Miller Genuine Draft
• Miller High Life
• Michelob Light

These were a few brands that rule the American market. The following brands of beer list will cover all the different brands from around the world.

Brands of Beer Around the World

Name of Country	Brands of Beer
Albania	Birra Tirana
Australia	Boags Carlton Cascade Cooper's Courage Draught Crown Emu Bitter Fosters Hahn James Squire Melbourne Bitter Power's Redback Reschs Swan Lager Tooheys Victoria Bitter XXXX(pronounced'4X')
Austria	Halden Gut Gosser Stiegl Zipfer
Belgium	Alken Maes Chimay Corsendonk Duvel Hoegaarden Jupiler Kwak Leffe StellaArtois Westmalle Double/Triple Trappist
Belize	Belikin Charger
Burkina Faso	So.b.bra Brakina
Bolivia	Cerveza Pasera
Canada	Labatt Molson Moosehead Keith's Sleeman's UpperCanada Unibroue Garrison Propeller BigRock Lakeport Okanagan Spring Northern Breweries
China	Haizhu(Macau) Harbin Huiquan Jianyang Jilin Tsingtaobeer Xinjiang Yanjing L Yinpu Zhujiang
Czech Republic	Bernard Branik Budweiser Diapivo Eggenberg Ferdinand Gambrinus Holba Konrad Krusovice Litovel Lobkowicz Pernstejn PilsnerUrquell Platan Primator Primus Radegast Regent Rychtar Samson Starobrno Staropramen Svijany Velkopopovicky Kozel Vratislav Zlatopramen Zubr
Denmark	Albani Carlsberg Tuborg
El Salvador	Bahia Campeon Light NocheBuena Pilsener of El Salvador Lager Bier Rialto Cerveza Santiago Tocayo
Egypt	Stella
Finland	CXX (Olvi) Hartwall Karjala (Hartwall) Karhu (Sinebrychoff) Koff (Sinebrychoff) Kommodori (Pirkanmaan Uusi Panimo) Laivuri (Pirkanmaan Uusi Panimo) Lapin Kulta (Hartwall) Legenda (Hartwall) Nikolai (Sinebrychoff) Olvi Urho (Hartwall) Sandels (Olvi)
France	1664 from Kronebourgbreweries 33 Export Adelscott Desperados Fischer George Killian's Jenlain Kriska Kronenbourg, Mützig Pelforth Schutz Jubilator Semeuse Valstar
Germany	Adelshoffen Allgäuer Brauhaus Alsfelder Astra Augustiner Bräu Ayinger Becker's Beck's Berliner Kind l Binding Bitburger Brinkhoffs Bölkstoff Clausthaler DAB Diebels Dinkelacker Dom Kölsch Dortmunder Kronen Duckstein Duessel Alt Eku Erdinger Farny Flensburger Frankenheimer Franziskaner Gaffel Kölsch Gießener Gilden-Koelsch Haake-Beck Härle Hacker-Pschorr Hansa HasenBräu Henninger Holsten Jever Julius Echter Karlsberg Karlsquell Kölsch Köstrizer Krombacher Licher Löwenbrau Maisel Meckatzer Memminger Moninger Oettinger Petermannchen (from Schwerin) Paulaner Radeberger Ratsherrn Rheingold Riegele Roling Rothaus Sanwald Weizenbier Schlappeseppel Schneider Schöfferhofer Schwaben Brau Spaten St. Pauli Girl Tucher Veltins Warsteiner Weihenstephaner Weltenburger Kloster
Guatemala	Cabro Gallo
Hungary	Dreber
India	Kingfisher Thunderbolt Haywards
Ireland	Guinness Harp Kilkenny Smithwicks
Italy	Peroniand Nastro Azzruro Peroni Splugen
Jamaica	Red Stripe
Japan	Asahi Kirin Orion Sapporo
Korea	OB Hite
Laos	BeerLao
Lebanon	Almaza Laziza
Malaysia	Anchor
Mexico	Bohemia Carta Blanca Corona Dos Equis Estrella Indio Leon Modelo Montejo Noche Buena Pacifico Sol Superior Tecate Victoria
Namibia	Windhoek Lager
Netherlands	Amstel Brewery Bavaria Brewery Brouwerij DeMolen Dommelsch Dutch Gold Grolsch Brewery Heineken Pilsener Heineken PremiumLight Hengelo Bier Hertog Jan Jopen Oranjeboom Stichting Noordhollandse Alternatieve Bierbrouwers Trappistbeer
New Zealand	D B Export Gold Lion Speight's Steinlager Taranaki
Pakistan	Murree Beer
Peru	Cerveza Cuzco
Philippines	Beerna Beer Colt 45 Red Horse San Miguel
Poland	Amber Barbakan from Krakow Bosman Dojlidy made by Bizon E B beer Braniewo Pils Piwo Bractwa Kurkowego Poznanski Porter Lech Warka Tyskie Królewskie Żywiecbeer Brok Okocim Piast
Portugal	Sagres Ultra-Bock
Puerto Rico	Cerveza India Medalla
Singapore	Tiger
South Africa	Carling Black Label Castle Lager Hansa Pilsener Lion Lager
Sweden	Pripps Blå Falcon Norrlands Guld (Spendrups) Åbro Fagerhult (Banco)
Switzerland	Cardinal Feldschlosschen Hurlimann Samichlaus (SantaClaus) St. Galler Klosterbräu Warteck
Tahiti	Hinano
Thailand	Singha Chang
Tunisia	Celtia
United Kingdom	Adnams Banks's Bass Belhaven Boddingtons Carling Courage Fullers Greenall's Greene King Harveys John Smith's Marstons Mc Ewens Newcastle Brown Ale Ringwood Brewery St Austell Breweries Shepherd Neame Stone Suttons Tennants Tetley Theakstons Youngs
USA	Abita Anchor Anderson Valley Anheuser-Busch Bad Frog Ballantine Bigfoot BillyBeer Blatz Bridgeport Capital Brewery Celis Coors Dixie Grain Belt Hudepohl Keystone Little Kings Cream Ale Live Oak Lone Star Mac Tarnahan's
Venezuela	Cerveza Bock Cerveza Cardenal Cerveza Frya CervezaNacional Cerveza Zulia Polar
Vietnam	Hue Beer Saigon Export Saigon333Export Saigon Lager

You can read some information on health benefits of beer in the article beer nutrition facts.

These are all brands of beer from around the world. As you can see, there are many different brands with each brand offering many types of beer. It's up to you to decide, which of the above can be called one of the best brands. I hope this article on beer has helped you know enough about the different beer brands in the market around the world. I hope you enjoyed reading through the article with a pint of beer!