brews who of

STELLA ARTOIS: First brewed in Leuven, Belgium, as a Christmas beer in 1926, it was named after the Latin for star and 18th Century brewmaster Sebastian Artois.

Its trademark chalice glass is designed to capture the hops’ aroma.

SPECIAL BREW: Created to honour the visit of wartime PM Winston Churchill, below, to Denmark in 1950, Carlsberg’s lager was originally a heady 9% ABV.

It inspired a 1980 chart hit by Bad Manners.

AMSTEL: Dating back to 1870, it’s named after the river running through Amsterdam. The red and white logo came from Dutch founders Charles de Pesters and Johannes van Marwijk as a nod to their love of billiards.

PERONI: Created by the Peroni family in 1963, its Nastro Azzurro “blue ribbon” tag came from the Blue Riband title Italian liner SS Rex held in the 1930s for the fastest Atlantic crossing.

FOSTERS: The famous Aussie tipple debuted in 1889 but was actually created by the US-born Foster brothers.

First exported to soldiers in the

Boer War in 1901, it finally made it to the UK in 1971.

KRONENBOURG

1664: The top

French brand dates back to

1952, when it was produced in time to commemorate Queen Elizabeth, below, coming to the throne and named after the date Jerome Hatt started his brewery in Strasbourg.

COORS: German-born stowaway Adolph Coors founded the brand in 1873 in the US, but died in 1929 when he mysteriously fell out of a hotel window. His grandson and heir Adolph Coors III was kidnapped and murdered in 1960.

BUDWEISER: Another German immigrant, who fought in the American Civil War, Adolphus Busch created the brand in 1876 but preferred wine to beer.

BRAHMA: The Brazilian beer was first brewed in 1888. There have been complaints it shares its name with a Hindu god, but the makers say it comes from Brit Joseph Bramah who designed the draft beer pump in 1797.

CORONA EXTRA: The popularity of the Mexican beer, launched in 1925, did not plunge with coronavirus. In fact, UK sales soared 40% in 2020. Experts think the pandemic put the name in drinkers’ minds.

BECK’S: Named after brewer Heinrich Beck and launched in 1873, in Bremen, its “key” logo is from the city’s coat of arms.

SKOL: Originally made in Scotland in 1958, it was called Skol to sound Scandinavian, after the word for “cheers”, but is most popular in Brazil.