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
51 Big Rock Brewery 3.2k 42.3 39.5% Beer
52 San Miguel Brewery 3.1k 33.3 69.8% Beer
53 Hite Brewery 2.9k 32.5 41.6% Beer
54 Pilsner Urquell 2.9k 33.8 44.5% Beer
55 Breckenridge Brewery 2.6k 48.1 73.4% Beer
56 Anheuser-Busch Brewery 2.4k Beer
57 Batemans Brewery 2.3k Beer
58 Skol 2.3k 40.2 52.1% Beer
59 Tuborg Brewery 2.3k 41.2 8.0% Beer
60 Bitburger 2.1k 41.8 27.2% Beer
61 Murphy's Irish Stout 1.7k 46.6 57.5% Beer
62 Birra Moretti 1.6k 43.3 26.2% Beer
63 Michelob ULTRA 1.4k 26.0 54.8% Beer
64 Oettinger 1.4k 39.0 53.7% Beer
65 Duvel 1.2k 41.2 30.4% Beer
66 Kronenbourg Brewery 1.1k 42.9 28.5% Beer
67 Kingfisher 1.1k 37.3 54.0% Beer
68 Clausthaler 1.1k 37.9 52.2% Beer
69 Tommyknocker Brewery 1k Beer
70 Shiner 1k 37.5 47.4% Beer
71 Tiger Beer 984 33.1 68.8% Beer
72 Estrella Damm 943 46.6 47.1% Beer
73 Oettinger Beer 877 38.0 0.0% Beer
74 Boddingtons Brewery 852 41.8 94.9% Beer
75 Everards Brewery 818 47.6 0.0% 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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