Which country brews the best beer?   Since October 2006 I have kept a diary of every bottle of beer I've drunk on a spreadsheet and scored them out of ten.   There are a total of 682 entries (as of August'09).   Draught beer in pubs would be impracticle and would lead to loud accusations of geekiness.   In my own home I can be as geeky as I like.

The results are:

* if two certain breweries (that I have written about elsewhere) are eliminated then England jump to third.   Unfortunately almost every bottle of beer I've opened from these two breweries is oxidised or infected & it screws up my averages.

Several factors skew the results.   I live & travel alot in England, so I have access to many beers indiscriminate of how good they are.   Foreign beers that make it to England must be of a certain standard for importers to risk selling them or breweries to brew them under license - mostly.

To be on this chart a country must have five or more entries on my spreadsheet.