Tally's Beer UniverseThe Brewery Archive

Travel through beer

Every beer has a place.Every brewery has a story.

5230 breweries, grouped the way a traveller thinks about them — not by continent, but by brewing culture.

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The Beer Universe — every region is a world of its own
2619

North America

The craft explosion and its hangover — thousands of independents, and the conglomerates that bought the loudest of them.

19% independent of archived3 countries
678

Central European Brewing

Where lager was invented and never improved upon. Purity laws, monastery brewhouses, and the original golden pilsner — across Germany, Czechia, Austria and Switzerland.

4% independent of archived4 countries
636

Asia

The world's biggest beer market by volume, and a craft scene running from Hokkaido sake houses to Shenzhen nano-breweries.

45% independent of archived12 countries
429

United Kingdom

Cask ale, tied pubs and centuries-old family brewers, alongside a modern independent scene that rebuilt the whole thing.

72% independent of archived1 countries
340

The Rest of Europe

Nordic kveik, Italian dry-hopped pilsner, Polish pastry stouts — the continent's fastest-moving modern scenes.

14% independent of archived25 countries
177

Latin America & the Caribbean

Continent-spanning macro empires, island breweries that export a national image in a bottle, and the high-altitude independents brewing with quinoa, purple corn and Andean botanicals.

38% independent of archived13 countries
147

Australia, NZ & the Pacific

Pacific Ale, surf-town breweries and an independence movement that fought hard against the same buyouts everyone else lost.

16% independent of archived4 countries
66

Ireland

Stout that became a national export, a long dry-county century, and the independent brewers who arrived after it.

85% independent of archived1 countries
32

Belgium

Trappist abbeys, lambic blenders and open fermentation. The most stubbornly traditional brewing culture on earth.

41% independent of archived1 countries
28

Africa & the Middle East

Colonial-era plants turned national institutions, and the brewing traditions that predate every one of them.

11% independent of archived15 countries
3

The Crown Dependencies

Self-governing islands with their own brewing law and their own drinking culture — a Victorian survivor on Man, and a new generation in the Channel Islands.

0% independent of archived3 countries