What Does the World Drink? Wine, Beer, Cider, Spirits, Sake and National Drinks in Wikidata, Wikipedia, the EU Register of Geographical Indications and OpenStreetMap

Drinks are tied to places more tightly than most things we consume, often by law. I assemble an open world map of where drinks come from, combining four sources: Wikidata, for 27,322 named drinks (types, styles, brands and products) with a country and 6,044 producers; the European Union register of geographical indications (eAmbrosia), for 1,985 protected names of wines, spirits, beers and ciders; OpenStreetMap, for 32,425 wineries, breweries and distilleries; and two English Wikipedia lists, for the national drink of 201 countries and the national liquor of 90. Every drink is assigned a family (wine; beer; cider and perry; ten kinds of spirit; sake and rice drinks; traditional drinks) from the Wikidata class tree or from words in its protected name, and placed in a country and, where possible, a region. The national drink lists are less alcoholic than one might expect: 45% of countries list a drink without alcohol first, tea in 19 and coffee in 16. Protected wine names are concentrated in Italy (522) and France (442). The open record as a whole is a record of who keeps records: 65% of all 67,755 records are European and 0.7% African, and 78% of Wikidata's 20,381 named beers come from three countries. The atlas maps what the open record says about the origins of drinks, not what people drink. Interactive version: https://maps.tristanhotham.com/drinks-map/. Data and code: https://github.com/Tristan-Hotham/drinks-map. Blog post: https://blog.tristanhotham.com/2026/10/29/drinks-map/.