Beers and Flags Around The World – Megan Travels the World

I don’t recall when or where I started this, but I started taking a photo of the local beer in front of somewhere scenic and beautiful in every country I visit (with the one rule that people are never allowed in these photos). Well…I try to at least. Not all countries have a local beer (as Muslim countries don’t make beer) and some countries don’t make their own and only import. Over the years, I’ve had some friends tell me they look forward to my “beer shot” when I travel so I finally decided to put them all together in one place as best I can.

I actually think it was after my first trip to Thailand in 2002 when we all started taking photos of Singha beer over the ocean that started this tradition. Since then, I also thought I should get a little culture and I try to get a photo of the country flag. So here goes from the Beers and Flags I’ll collected so far…

ANTARCTICA (2009)

Beer in Antarctica (well it’s Argentina’s beer as Antarctica doesn’t have a anywhere to make beer!)

ARGENTINA (2006, 2009)

Argentina’s Beer and Flag

AUSTRAILIA

Australia Beer at Ayers Rock

Australia’s Flag

AUSTRIA (1998, 2008)

Austria’s Beer

BHUTAN (2014)

Bhutan’s Local Beer by Tiger’s Nest

Bhutan’s National Flag. One of the few countries that it was hard to find as it doesn’t fly everywhere.

Colombia (2014-2015)

Colombia Flag and Club Colombia Beer

DENMARK (2008)

Denmark’s Beer and Flag

ESTONIA (2008)

Estonia’s Beer and Flag

FIJI (2017)

FINLAND (2008)

Finland’s Beer and Flag

GERMANY (1998, 2017)

Germany’s Flag

Berlin’s Beer by the Berlin Wall

ICELAND (2017)

Iceland’s Viking Beer over Gullfoss Waterfall

INDONESIA (2013, 2014)

Indonesia Flag and Bintang Beer

JAMAICA (2008)

Jamaica’s Beer and Flag

LAOS (2014)

Laos Flag

Beer Lao on the Mekong River

LATVIA (2008)

Latvia’s Beer and Flag

MALAYSIA (2008, 2014, 2017)

– In 2014, I couldn’t find a beer anywhere to buy. When I asked locals, they told me they don’t have a national beer as it’s a Muslim country. All I could find were imported beers at bars or hotels. So I settled on no beer shot on this short trip.

Malaysia Flag in 2014

When I returned to Malaysia, and went far out to the eastern part in Boreno, I saw a new beer called Anchor and never heard of it. When I asked, I was told that was a local beer to Malaysia. Ends up it’s part of the Heinekin family and it is made in Malaysia…so I now have my local beer shot and took this on the magical island of Sipadan on my last day scuba diving.