The 12 best beers in the world (according to the experts)

These are the beer brands that top the ranking of the best in the world.

The refreshment of joy, the joy of summer. These are some of the adjectives we hear most often when referring to beer. According to the experts and various prestigious competitions, the best beers are voted every year, the best beers in the world are voted every year.. From Latin America, through Asia and especially Europe, we find the most influential brands.

Today, in addition to the traditional beer and the consolidated "0.0" or "non-alcoholic" variant, there are also countless combinations with other types of beverages -sodas and soft drinks in general- that allow beer to be enjoyed in a different way. In essence, different categories have been analyzed, including: blonde, dark, lager, flavored or sour beers, among others.

The most desired beers in the world

Year after year, competitions for the best beer in the world take place all over the globe. The World Beer Cup and the World Beer Awards are the best standard for evaluating the best brands in the world.. It is no trivial matter how seriously the manufacturers take it, as well as those who are going to judge the taste, since the companies are staking billions on production and prestige. There are about two thousand brands that are presented and only about twenty enter the select club.

Below is a list of the 12 most desirable beers according to the experts.

1. Hirsch Hesse Weisse

How could it be otherwise? one of Germany's premium beers has been voted the best in the world.. The company was founded by Ludwig Aeble (Hirsch-Brauerei) in 1782 in the Baden-Wurtenburg region. Its success is based on tradition and craftsmanship in its production. Its care and respect for the times has given the German brand a soul of its own. Hirsch Hesse Weisse falls into the category of wheat beer.

2. Ulmer Pilsener by Bauhöfer

Another of the Oktoberfest country's star products. According to the World Beer Cup, the famous Pilsener takes second place for its moderate alcohol content (5.5%) and low fragmentation, as well as being considered the best low-flavor lager beer in the world. the best lager beer with a low bittering taste.. The judges consider it refreshing and suitable for any time and meal of the day.

3. Hideji Kuri Kuro

We move to the other side of the globe, and land in Japan to find the surprise of this ranking of the best beers in the world. Curiously, it is a product designed for the Western market, especially the USA.combining the traditional recipe from the Japanese town of Kyshu. With a sweet taste and 9% alcohol, it is one of the tastiest according to experts.

4. Hook Norton Red Rye

This is another of the great delights of the brewing world, originally from the United Kingdom in the mid-19th century. Its star product "Red Rye" has been awarded as the best special beer in the world. Brewed with rye malt, 4.8% alcohol and blended with different fruits, it is one of those beers with the highest alcohol content in the world.is one of those beers with a sweet and fruity taste.

5. Cookie Muncher

The Novo Brazil brewing company has been standing out for its originality in the North American market for several years. Based in the State of California, Novo Brazil is a national company with a Brazilian flavor and touch, and that is how it has managed to be the best dark and strong dark beer, with an alcohol content of 13% and a highly bitter taste.

6. "Where the Buffalo Roam".

This canned beer, named after a movie, has been awarded as the best lager in the world in 2017.. Apart from more than 170 international awards from all over the planet, this product of the Canadian company Cameron Howe was born in 1997 and has reaped numerous successes for its sweet and bitter taste at the same time.

7. Celtic Brunette

We return to the Old Continent, to Italy, specifically. It is also one of the youngest brands in the spectrum, from the company Birra Morena.It is also one of the youngest brands on the spectrum, from the Birra Morena company founded in the 1980s and reinvented at the end of the 1990s with tremendous worldwide success. Morena Celtica Stout has been the best in the stout category, with double malt and 6.8% alcohol.

8. Borg Brugg Hús

This is another of the big surprises on the list. An Icelandic company founded in the midst of the global economic crisis, it is considered by many to be one of the best in Europe. Surtur 8.2 beer (for its production series) tastes of licorice, coffee and burnt sugar, and 15% alcohol, it is the best beer beer matured in wooden barrels in the world.

9. Musta Lomittaja

Near the Icelandic orbit we find the company Ruosniemen Panimobased in Espoo (Finland) and founded in 2011 by five engineer friends who never imagined being part of the select club of beers. The Musta Lomittaja is considered the best smoked beer, almost black beer with 7% alcohol.

10. Little Bangin

It is another of the flagship of the Irish craft beer company Rye River Brewing incorporated in 2013, but with a flavor and brewing that dates back to the times of the eighteenth century. Its secret recipe is based on the hops it contains and the low alcohol content. and the low alcohol content, less than 4%. This has led it to be considered the best IPA beer in the world.

11. High Counrty Kölsch

The story of the founders of Mt. Begbie, a married couple with a technical background: the husband is a nuclear physicist and the wife is a biologist. They became known back in 1996 in the middle of the U.S. Olympics, in Canada. And so, in 2017, it was considered the best Kölsch beer (hence its name) for respecting the German tradition in this type of beer..

12. Cisk

Let's close this list of the best beers in the world with an old acquaintance: a Pilsner, from the Maltese company Cisk, founded, curiously enough shortly before the Great Depression of 1929. It is the best Czech style lager, pilsner style brewed with malt, Czech hops and 5.5% alcohol, which makes it a great companion at lunch and dinner.

Bibliographical references:

• World Beer Cup: The Most Prestigious Beer Competition in the World.
• World Beer Awards.