Whats your easiest missing country

Got a bottle in stock Shawn, I’ll save it for our next share.

My easiest is Zambia. About which the most recent news headline is “Zambian Breweries dragged to court over fungi in Mosi Lager”…Still want it though!

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I got my one and only Colombia tick from the National Brewery Centre shop in Burton, of all places. They had a ‘beers of the world’ sale and I was able to pick up some Malta, Myanmar and Hong Kong as well.

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Unchanged for the past 2 years for me. Israel, Lebanon and Dominican Republic. To be honest I’m not desperate for country ticks any more so it’s not something I’ve chased.
That said, Israel seems to have some interesting beers based on what I’ve seen from users on here who have posted in the Euro Swap threads of the years.

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True Rater!

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Romania for me, but have 5 beers from there at home, so shouldn’t stay that way for too long.

Germany, France.& Italy.

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Chile! Can you believe that? Based in US and no Chilean beer?

There used to be one Chilean brewery you could get (see my only tick), but alas no more.

Stats have changed:

Most difficult rated:
#11 Tristan da Cunha
#12 British Virgin Island
#15 Tajikistan

Easiest unrated:
#61 Zambia
#55 eSwatini
#54 Cook Islands

Countries rated: 194

// Ciao

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#197 Switzerland
#198 Wales
#201 Russia

Countries Rated: 29

I think I will have to start rating Lager to get more countries.

If the beer countries I am missing were “easy” to get in Norway, I would have had them already. But I have twice stayed a couple kilometers from the border of the Turkish Republic of Cyprus, but never crossed the border, as I don’t recognize the Turkish occupation zone (which this “country” actually is). So no beers from there.

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Wales and Russia should be very doable without a single lager. And Switzerland likely to, albeit with some more effort. Though I see there’s no Tiny Rebel at Systemet anymore.

There’s been quite a few Russian beers released at Systembolaget recently and Polly’s have Swedish distro. Should be quite easy to tick both locally tbh.

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I really enjoy the Most Difficult Countries to Drink page - I’ve only been properly rating on here for the past 2 years so have lists of old rating to add when I’ve the time (Covid is helping, only good thing it’s doing!) Overall once upto date, my easiest missing country would be Ukraine.

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National Brewery Centre shop is an amazing place to pick up random bottles, remember passing up on a bottle from Ghana because it had no best before date. What was I thinking!!

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Mine are Dominican Republic and Colombia next. Managed to do Philipines last year.

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2+ years later and Chile is still my easiest missing country :chile: If anyone has any EU-based tips for finding any (besides the one in Germany suggested to me; they didn’t actually have any at the time and they don’t sell beer anymore through their webshop), that would be amazing!

July 2020 I posted this:

Most difficult rated:
Congo
Falklands
Chad

Easiest unrated:
Bahamas
US Virgins
Bolivia

Countries rated: 140

I’ve managed to pick up 3 more countries, all in between the aforementioned easiest and most difficult.

<*))))))><

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No idea if they also have distribution on the mainland but this lot crop up here on Plague Island:

https://www.ratebeer.com/brewers/handwerk-brewers/12968/

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Most Difficult Done:

  1. St Vincent & The Grenadines (Cott’s Convention)
  2. Madagascar (Colleague went on holiday there)
  3. Rwanda (EU Swap from @Erzengel)

Easiest Not Done:

  1. Slovakia
  2. Argentina (as per @jjsint I’ve seen Quilmes but not bothered buying it… but probably will now, ha)
  3. Israel (is Israel higher thanks to people doing trades?)

One change on the latter since my last updates thanks to two Turkish beers from Home Bargains. I was just happy that one wasn’t called Efes, even if they did brew it.

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