Redondo Beach pub has a brew for every discerning palate.

One hundred bottles of beer on the wall.

One hundred bottles of beer.

Take one down, pass it around.

Ninety-nine bottles of beer on the wall . . . .

At “Naja’s Place,” that tune would go on almost four times longer than usual.

From a family-owned pub at the Redondo Beach harbor, Naja Zeinaty sells 375 different brands of the fermented beverage. She says that’s more than any other bar in the state--and no one from four national beer trade organizations would dispute her claim.

She has pineapple beer, cherry beer, smoked beer, beer made by monks in a process that dates back a century and a half. She has Kiwi from New Zealand, Tusker from Kenya, Cabro from Guatemala, Peroni from Italy, Green Rooster from Denmark and even Budweiser from the United States of America.

“Beer is like food, with all its flavors,” she says. “Beer is also like people--fat, short, skinny, all different colors.”

Born in Lebanon, Zeinaty lived in England before moving to Redondo Beach in the late 1970s. Back then she knew little about beer.

In 1980, she opened her bar with her husband, Ben, and three children. She served a few different brands and chose them by the colorful labels on the bottles.

Today things are different. She can identify each of the brews she sells by its taste. She knows exactly where in the bar’s numerous refrigerators each brand sits. The thousands of different brands manufactured across the world, she says, are like wine in their variety of tastes and textures.

Her favorites are Spaten lager, Edelweiss with a twist of lemon and Chimay, a dark wine-like concoction brewed by Trappist monks in Belgium’s Chimay Abbey.

What does she think about home-grown beer like Budweiser and Coors Light?

“Domestic beer is like iced tea,” Zeinaty says diplomatically. “It’s light and good for a hot day.”

A bar in Washington, the Brickskeller, claims that its 600 different brands of beer are more than any other drinking establishment in the nation or perhaps even the world.

Maurice Coja, one of the owners of the Brickskeller, said of Naja’s Place: “That’s a respectable number--not bad at all.”

But Zeinaty isn’t satisfied yet. Around the beginning of the New Year, she plans to expand, increasing the beers served on tap from 19 to 27 and the total selection to 500.

Five hundred bottles of beer on the wall.

Five hundred bottles of beer .

Take one down . . . .