Popularity ranking · South Africa

The 100 most popular Beers in South Africa

This curated ranking covers the 100 largest beers in South Africa, ordered by estimated audience size from Rascasse's anonymized search-behavior signals. Out of 221 beers tracked in South Africa, the 100 ranked here account for the largest measured audience reach. Wellington Brewery, Heineken and Ceres Brewery lead the list with a combined estimated audience of 1.2M people. Across all 100 entries the average audience size is 30k, and the largest, Wellington Brewery, reaches around 623k people in South Africa. Audience size is the estimated number of unique people in South Africa who actively engage with each beer, derived from search demand signals. Rankings reflect search-behavior signals collected across South Africa and are refreshed weekly.

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How to read this list

Rank

Position in the Top 100, sorted by audience size from largest to smallest. Updated weekly.

Audience size

Estimated number of unique people in South Africa who actively engage with this audience, derived from anonymized search-behavior signals.

Country share

Share of the global audience that is active in South Africa. A higher value means the audience is more locally concentrated here.

Avg age

Average age in years across the people who engage with this audience in South Africa, derived from anonymized search-behavior signals. A dash means demographic data is not yet available.

Female share

Share of women among the people who engage with this audience in South Africa. 50% is gender-balanced; values above mean female-skewed, below mean male-skewed.

Ranking

Rank Audience Audience size Avg age Female share Subtype
26 BrewDog 13k 40.3 51.0% Beer
27 Desperados 13k 26.6 100.0% Beer
28 Asahi Breweries 11k 40.0 53.3% Beer
29 Archipelago Brewery 9.7k Beer
30 Liefmans Brewery 9.6k 37.0 100.0% Beer
31 Sapporo Brewery 8.9k 42.0 77.8% Beer
32 Porter (beer) 8.5k 26.3 46.2% Beer
33 Erdinger 8.3k 40.9 35.6% Beer
34 Harpoon Brewery 7.6k 42.4 53.7% Beer
35 Penn Brewery 7k 45.2 48.7% Beer
36 John Smith's Brewery 6.9k 38.6 15.3% Beer
37 Royal Oak Brewery 6.9k Beer
38 Corona (beer) 6k 36.1 48.8% Beer
39 Cristal 5.7k 36.2 51.0% Beer
40 Caledonian Brewery 5.6k Beer
41 Meantime Brewery 5.3k 37.9 21.9% Beer
42 Asia Pacific Breweries 4.7k 38.8 79.8% Beer
43 Tsingtao Brewery 4.6k 28.4 39.6% Beer
44 Fuller's Brewery 4.4k 45.3 52.7% Beer
45 Pilsner Urquell Brewery 4k 48.0 7.8% Beer
46 Faxe Brewery 3.9k 25.2 31.0% Beer
47 Saint Louis Brewery 3.6k 41.6 45.4% Beer
48 Bud Light 3.4k 36.3 74.3% Beer
49 Dark Star Brewery 3.4k Beer
50 Paulaner Brewery 3.3k 39.0 48.6% Beer

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Frequently asked questions

How is this list of the most popular beers compiled?

Rascasse aggregates anonymized search-behavior signals across South Africa and ranks each beer by its estimated audience size. Only entries with at least 5 measured entities are listed.

How often is the list updated?

The ranking is refreshed weekly from the latest search-behavior data and re-published as a static page.

What is the largest beer in South Africa?

Wellington Brewery currently leads with an estimated audience of 623k people in South Africa.

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