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
76 Holsten Brewery 802 39.2 28.9% Beer
77 Lindemans Brewery 778 46.9 50.2% Beer
78 Flying Dog Brewery 750 40.4 37.2% Beer
79 Dos Equis 727 38.5 62.8% Beer
80 Hahn Brewery 721 31.1 12.2% Beer
81 Dogfish Head Brewery 680 36.2 59.4% Beer
82 Westvleteren Brewery 650 47.2 26.2% Beer
83 Greene King Brewery 624 46.0 46.3% Beer
84 Somersby cider 616 26.1 50.8% Beer
85 Molson Coors Brewing Company 607 28.3 34.3% Beer
86 Orval Brewery 593 45.7 32.4% Beer
87 Lagunitas Brewing Company 550 40.8 55.6% Beer
88 Thornbridge Brewery 531 47.5 33.0% Beer
89 Quilmes 518 20.9 17.3% Beer
90 Frankenmuth Brewery 500 46.2 62.4% Beer
91 Flensburger 496 34.3 55.9% Beer
92 Cobra Beer 491 38.4 22.1% Beer
93 Jupiler 444 43.0 34.9% Beer
94 Timothy Taylor Brewery 420 49.2 54.9% Beer
95 Warsteiner 409 41.0 32.0% Beer
96 Tripel Karmeliet 314 36.2 51.0% Beer
97 Orval 309 38.7 48.2% Beer
98 Radeberger Brewery 297 41.6 32.4% Beer
99 Sixpoint Brewery 293 37.2 23.9% Beer
100 Molson Brewery 288 39.5 63.0% 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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