Cerveza Quilmes
Cervecería y Maltería Quilmes goes back to Otto Bemberg, an immigrant from Cologne, and his son Otto Sebastián, who had studied brewing in Munich. The company was set up in 1888, and the first beer was poured in the town of Quilmes, south of Buenos Aires, on 31 October 1890; the brand took the town's old indigenous name. Quilmes grew into Argentina's most widely drunk beer and brews with Argentine barley, maize and Patagonian hops, some of them bred on its own hop farm in Río Negro. It has been part of AB InBev since 2006.
Beers by Cerveza Quilmes
9 beers
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The recurring character behind the beers
Cerveza Quilmes brew within a single family — the differences sit in how, not what.
Across these 9 beers, 4 notes keep showing up:
Four notes carry across the range. That's a tight house style — most breweries in the catalogue share just one.
Compared with the wider catalogue of similar styles:
How we measure this
Two thresholds are at work here:
- The signature list shows notes that recur in at least 6% of this brewery's beers. A low bar — enough to flag a pattern, not high enough to call it an exclusive trait.
- The peer comparison below shows only notes where this brewery's coverage differs from similar breweries by at least 20 percentage points. A higher bar — enough to call a real difference, not a nudge.
A note can appear on the signature list without appearing in the peer comparison: it recurs here, but similar breweries do the same thing.
Quilmes Clásica
Their beers place in the Top 44% of the catalogue on average, across 8 ranked beers. One clear standout well ahead of the rest.
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About Cerveza Quilmes
Cervecería y Maltería Quilmes goes back to Otto Bemberg, an immigrant from Cologne, and his son Otto Sebastián, who had studied brewing in Munich. The company was set up in 1888, and the first beer was poured in the town of Quilmes, south of Buenos Aires, on 31 October 1890; the brand took the town's old indigenous name. Quilmes grew into Argentina's most widely drunk beer and brews with Argentine barley, maize and Patagonian hops, some of them bred on its own hop farm in Río Negro. It has been part of AB InBev since 2006.
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