Beer

🇺🇸United States

Shandy

A British drink of beer mixed with lemonade (or ginger beer), producing a refreshing, low-alcohol summer drink.

🇸🇿Eswatini

Sibebe Premium Lager

Eswatini's national lager brewed in Matsapha, named after the iconic Sibebe Rock.

🇲🇰Skopje, North Macedonia

Skopsko

Скопско

Pale lager brewed in Skopje since 1924, the default beer of the country.

🇮🇪Leinster, Ireland

Smithwick's Ale

Ruby-red Irish ale first brewed at St. Francis Abbey in Kilkenny since the 1700s.

🇨🇳China

Snow Beer

雪花啤酒

A very light pale lager, low in alcohol and served ice cold, and by volume the most-drunk beer in the world.

🇸🇸South Sudan

South Sudanese Millet Beer

Nyet

Home-brewed millet beer; fermented sorghum or millet in water; cloudy, sour, and low in alcohol; brewed by women for social gatherings and celebrations; drunk communally from a shared vessel; the traditional alcoholic drink of rural South Sudan.

🇱🇰Sri Lanka

Sri Lankan Lager

ලයන් ලාගර්

A pale lager brewed in the hill country since the 19th century, along with a heavy stout that is unexpectedly good.

🇦🇽Åland Islands

Stallhagen Beer

Stallhagen

Åland's oldest and largest craft brewery, established 2004; Stallhagen Original is a clear, straw-yellow Nordic lager known as 'The Åland Beer' with the Åland flag on the label; uses water from Åland's lakes; 'Slow beer' philosophy allows longer fermentation; Finland's fifth largest microbrewery.

🇳🇬Nigeria

Star Lager

Star

Pale lager brewed in Nigeria since 1949, the country's first, and the standard bottle at a beer parlour.

🇧🇪Belgium

Stella Artois

A Belgian premium pilsner lager from Leuven, a national and global icon.

🇦🇹Salzburg, Austria

Stiegl Beer

Stiegl Goldbräu

Classic lager from Salzburg's oldest brewery, founded 1492, balanced malt and hops with clean finish, a beloved Austrian beer, traditional and refreshing.

🇳🇴Norway

Stjørdalsøl

Stjørdalsøl is a beer from Stjørdal Municipality, rooted in local cooking tradition.

🇨🇻Cape Verde

Strela

Cape Verde's most popular beer, a lager produced since 2006 that overtook Portuguese imports Super Bock and Sagres on the islands.

🇱🇻Latvia

Sweetened Beer

Miestiņš

Home-brewed sweetened beer, an ancient Latvian tradition before the 13th century, used for celebrations.

🇰🇵Pyongyang, North Korea

Taedonggang Beer

대동강맥주

North Korea's most famous beer brand, brewed by the Taedonggang Brewing Company in Pyongyang; named after the Taedong River that flows through the capital; a state-produced lager considered one of the best beers on the Korean peninsula; the brewery was purchased from a British firm in 2000; available on tap in Pyongyang restaurants.

🇳🇦Namibia

Tafel Lager

One of Namibia's two main beers — brewed in Windhoek, a golden lager in the German tradition; alongside Windhoek Lager, the beer of choice at braais and bars.

🇹🇼Taiwan

Taiwan Beer

台灣啤酒

Lager brewed with a proportion of Penglai rice since the 1920s, sold everywhere and in fruit versions — mango, pineapple, grape — that outsell the original with younger drinkers.

🇹🇬South (Cotonou / Porto-Novo / Fon-Yoruba), Togo

Tchakpalo

A fermented maize, sorghum, or millet beer; slightly sweet; a southern Benin specialty; lighter than tchoukoutou; served fresh in calabashes.

🇨🇮Côte d'Ivoire

Tchapalo

Dolo

Sorghum or millet beer brewed in the north, cloudy pink-brown and served warm from calabashes in courtyard bars.

🇹🇬North (Parakou / Borgou / Bariba), Togo

Tchoukoutou

A traditional beer from fermented millet, sorghum, or maize; high alcohol content; a northern Benin specialty; brewed by women; the social drink of the north.

🇪🇹Ethiopia

Tella

ጠላ

Ethiopia's traditional homemade beer — brewed with malted barley, sorghum and gesho over several days of fermentation. Smoky, tangy and refreshing, often served at weddings and holidays.

🇲🇬Madagascar

Three Horses Beer

A pale pilsner brewed in Antsirabe since 1958 and sold in returnable bottles across the country.

🇸🇬Singapore, Singapore

Tiger Beer

Pale lager first brewed in Singapore in 1932, light and dry, poured everywhere from hawker centres to Boat Quay bars.

🇳🇵Koshi and Eastern Nepal, Nepal

Tongba

तोङ्बा

Millet is fermented in a wooden vessel and repeatedly steeped with hot water to make a warm eastern Nepali drink.

🇨🇳China

Tsingtao Beer

青岛啤酒

A pale lager brewed since the German concession at Qingdao, using Laoshan spring water, and the beer poured by default across China.

🇩🇰Denmark

Tuborg

A Danish beer brand, a pilsner and national staple, brewed since 1873 and known for its Christmas brew.

🇨🇰Cook Islands

Tumunu

Tumunu is a home-brewed fermented fruit drink, commonly made with oranges and shared at gatherings on Atiu and other Cook Islands.

🇻🇺Vanuatu

Tusker

Tusker is a locally brewed Vanuatu lager served cold in bars, restaurants, and nakamals, where it accompanies island meals and social gatherings.

🇰🇪Kenya

Tusker Beer

Tusker

A Kenyan lager beer, the unofficial national beer, a social and daily classic

🇷🇼Rwanda

Ubuki

Traditional Rwandan beer brewed from fermented honey; a lesser-known traditional brew mentioned alongside urwagwa and ikigage; the honey is diluted with water and fermented, producing a sweet, mildly alcoholic mead-like drink.

🇸🇿Eswatini

Umcombotsi

Tjwala

Traditional home-brewed beer from fermented maize and sorghum malt, cloudy and lightly effervescent.

🇿🇦South Africa

Umqombothi

Hwahwa

A traditional South African beer of maize, sorghum, and malt, low in alcohol and rich in vitamin B, a communal drink

🇸🇮Ljubljana, Slovenia

Union

Ljubljana's lager, brewed since 1864 at the brewery still standing in the middle of the city, and the standing rival to Laško.

🇷🇴Transylvania, Romania

Ursus

Romania's best-known pale lager, brewed in Cluj-Napoca since 1879, with a dark variant (Ursus Black) aged in roasted malt.

🇦🇺Australia

Victoria Bitter

VB

Australia's best-selling lager since 1854, full-flavored and thirst-quenching, a hard earned thirst needs a big cold beer, cold temperature with clean bitterness and good malt balance.

🇳🇴Norway

Vossaøl

Vossaøl is a beer from Vossavangen, rooted in local cooking tradition.