Simba Beer
India's fastest-growing craft beer brand, founded in 2016 in Raipur, the capital of Chhattisgarh — an unlikely home for a craft brewery in the heart of central India. Named after the Swahili word for lion, Simba became nationally distributed within five years of founding. Their Wit Beer introduced central Indian drinkers to wheat beer character, and their Stout became one of India's most talked-about dark beers. Simba proves Indian craft beer isn't just a Bangalore and Mumbai story.
Beers by Simba Beer
4 beers
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The recurring character behind the beers
Simba Beer brew across 3 style families.
Across these 4 beers, 4 notes keep showing up:
With 4 beers, only recurring notes are shown — one unusual beer moves this a lot.
Compared with 411 other breweries brewing Light Lager, Strong Lager and Witbier:
They stay close to the peer baseline on their recurring notes.
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.
Simba Wit
Their beers place in the Top 31% of the catalogue on average, across 4 ranked beers. Consistent rather than spiky — no single standout carrying the rest.
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About Simba Beer
India's fastest-growing craft beer brand, founded in 2016 in Raipur, the capital of Chhattisgarh — an unlikely home for a craft brewery in the heart of central India. Named after the Swahili word for lion, Simba became nationally distributed within five years of founding. Their Wit Beer introduced central Indian drinkers to wheat beer character, and their Stout became one of India's most talked-about dark beers. Simba proves Indian craft beer isn't just a Bangalore and Mumbai story.
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