From beer to eternity - the start of our quest...

Firstly, we divided up the competing nations into three categories, based on how difficult we thought it would be to get hold of beer from that country:-

1) Easy

Australia, Brazil, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, South Africa, Spain, United States (12 of 32 = 38%)

2) Questionable / difficult

Argentina, Chile, Greece, Honduras, Korea Republic, New Zealand, Nigeria, Portugal, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia (11 of 32 = 34%)

3) Umm... gonna be tough / pretty impossible

Algeria, Cameroon, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Korea DPR, Switzerland, Paraguay, Uruguay (9 of 32 = 28%)