What are 5 types of beer?
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What are 5 types of beer?
Learn about common styles of beer to increase your comfort and familiarity with one of the world’s oldest drinks.
- Ale. Ale is a general category of beer: You’ll find sub-categories like brown ales or pale ales.
- Lager. Lagers are a newer style of beer with two key differences from ales.
- Porter.
- Stout.
- Blonde Ale.
How many beer names are there?
According to some estimates though, there are as many as 20,000. This article gives you a list of some of these top brands. It is impossible to have an exact number of brands of beer in the world. According to some estimates though, there are as many as 20,000.

What beer is most popular?
Here are the top 20 most popular beers in America, according to YouGov research:
- Guinness – popularity 51%
- Heineken – popularity 49%
- Corona – popularity 49%
- Samuel Adams – popularity 44%
- Budweiser – popularity 41%
- Blue Moon – popularity 41%
- Coors – popularity 39%
- Miller – popularity 39%
What is the top 50 beer brands?
Top 50 Overall Brewing Companies
Rank | Company | City |
---|---|---|
1 | Anheuser-Busch Inc (a) | St. Louis |
2 | MolsonCoors (b) | Chicago |
3 | Constellation (c) | Chicago |
4 | Heineken USA (d) | White Plains |
What is dark beer called?
Stout
Stout seems an apt descriptive name for a beverage that is very dark, full-bodied, and malty. It is usually darker and sweeter than porter, and there is evidence that stout was used to describe other alcoholic drinks with heavy or dense body: in the 1600s, stout was used to describe some wine as well as ale and beer.

Which beer brand is best?
So after comprehensive research, we’ve curated a list of best beer brands available in India for the beer snob in you.
- Kingfisher. Source.
- Tuborg. Source.
- Carlsberg. Source.
- Budweiser. Source.
- Heineken. Source.
- Corona. Source.
- Bira 91. Source.
- Foster’s. Source.