This is the most popular beer brand in the world

Say wine, snacks or haute cuisine and the gourmands at online food magazine FavorFlav know where to drink, how to eat it and what to cook. This time our cheffies serve you: this is the most popular beer brand in the world.

Have you all recovered from the surprise that not McDonald’s or Burger King is the most popular fast food chain worldwide but Kentucky Fried Chicken? Perhaps the result of which beer brand can be said the same is a bit less shocking…

And on top of that, you might get a bit of an orange feeling from this. Or green!

Delightfully clear around the world
Because nothing less than the Dutch Heineken is what the average beer drinker rushes to the store (or the pub) for. Just as the British Business Financing could illustrate using Google data that the fried chicken shops are KFC on average the most searched worldwide, so it is also for Heineken. Business Financing looks at how many countries a particular brand is the most popular; the more countries, the higher on the ranking.

There must be a difference
Of course, there are significant regional differences, and that’s why we look at how many countries in total a particular brand is the most popular. In North America, that is Budweiser, a brand that is available here in the Netherlands but you don’t really come across it in large quantities at parties. (Or maybe at the parties I’m not at, but I personally don’t know anyone who fills their balcony with crates of Budweiser.).

Not always a home game
It is remarkable that according to Business Financing beer brands are strongly associated with their country of origin, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that it is also the most popular beer in the home country. Guinness, still good for a second place on the list because it is the most popular beer brand in no less than 22 countries comes from Ireland. But what is the most popular beer brand in Ireland itself? Brew Dog. From Scotland.

Beer map of the world
Heineken proudly leads this list, with a huge lead over number two. In 77 (!) countries worldwide, Heineken is the most popular beer brand. Knowing that this may cause outrage among some of you, we still say: cheers!

And below you see colorfully illustrated by Business Financing the overview of which beer brands are most popular where.

Source: Business Financing