Switzerland Beer Guide

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^{Very good breweries !}
^{Above average and satisfying.}
^to ^Average.
^{Not terrible.}
^{This is getting pretty bad.}
^to ^{Be cautious: you may REALLY not like it !}

Breweries (35)

Name

Address&contact

Registry-#
Size/Production

# of beers
tasted

Rating avg
appreciation

Comments
Please be aware that all ratings and comments reflect my opinion only ! So don't blame me if I dislike your favourite brewery. Fortunately we are free to like whatever we like...

Boss'Beer

Founded in 2016

route de l'Industrie 36
1615 Bossonnens

021 947 44 11

#828

1000 hl

list of beers

12.47

Brewer: Stephen Hart.
Founded 2016 by Marcel and Trix Wenger, this brewery is growing pretty fast (150 hl in 2016, 600 in 2017 and about 1000 in 2018). Has 5 employees and offers about 6 core beers of decent diversity.
I have not been really convinced by the quality, yet if the new brewer is the person I think, then I clearly have to retry them all.

Brädele Bräu

Founded in 2015

1734 Tentlingen

076 579 69 72

#663

list of beers

Promising. Waiting for some more.

Brasserie Artisanale des Molettes

Founded in 2016

1627 Vaulruz

#856

list of beers

N/A

Brasserie de la Falaise

Founded in 2018

1725 Posieux

#1289

N/A

Brasserie de la Grue

Founded in 2018

route des Crêts 9
1669 Haut-Intyamon

#1238

list of beers

N/A

Brasserie des Celtes

Founded in 2017

chemin des Celtes 8
1630 Bulle

#993

list of beers

13.11

Brasserie du Chat

Founded in 2019

Route du Château-d'Affry
1762 Givisiez

#1438

list of beers

N/A

Brasserie du Chêne

Founded in 2013

la Tzintre 2
1637 Charmey

#527

N/A

Brewer: Alain Bourgeais.
Formerly named Dou Velâdzo and located in 1624 La Verrerie

Brasserie du Dzô

Founded in 2016

Tintébin 12
1687 Vuisternens-dvt-Romont

079 506 88 00

#889

500 hl

list of beers

14.45

Brewer: Laurent Michel.

Brasserie du Pâquier

Founded in 2019

1661 le Pâquier

#1314

list of beers

N/A

Brasserie du Poyet

Founded in 2007

chemin des Prés 14
1475 Autavaux

079 606 12 33

#323

30 hl

list of beers

13.1

Brewer: Lionel and Damien von Niederhausern, Marc Flückiger and Christophe Nell.
Has quite improved during the last 5 years.

Brâthèrie di Yêrdza (Écureuils)

Founded in 2015

route d'Ursy 41
1678 Siviriez

079 937 71 27

#769

15 hl

list of beers

11.87

Brewer: David Oberson.

B'rs Bierwerk

Founded in 2016

Buillardhöhe 23
3212 Gurmels

#874

list of beers

N/A

Cow Water

Founded in 2011

Duensstrasse 8
3186 Düdingen

079 293 10 55

#425

80 hl

list of beers

13.8

Brewer: Beat Brügger and Patrick Augsburger.
I got a pretty interesting bottle. Hope for more soon.

Durhône

Founded in 2018

chemin des Artisans 15
1616 Attalens

#1146

list of beers

N/A

Brewer: Thomas Christophe Durhône

Extra-Muros

Founded in 2017

route de Billens 9
1680 Romont

#1093

list of beers

13.6

Fleisch & Brau

Founded in 2004

Hauptstrasse 70
1715 Alterswil

026 494 06 22

#185

800 hl

list of beers

12.76

Brewer: Iwan Egger.
A microbrewery initially installed in a butchery in Düdingen. Moved then to Alterswil. Very nicely made beers !
Is brewing the basis beer for the Stillman's since the end of 2012.

Freiburger Biermanufaktur

Founded in 2009

Impasse de la Sous-Station 3
1700 Fribourg

079 233 31 32

#340

1000 hl

list of beers

13.37

"Brewer: Uwe Siegrist, Stephan Marchand and Yannick Brodard.
This microbrewery offers pretty well-made beers. Worth a try.
Its beer ""la Patriote"" was produced by Felsenau until 2013."

This brewery believes in the myth of the Reinheitsgebot.

Fri-Mousse (Brasserie Artisanale de Fribourg)

Founded in 1993

3186 Düdingen

026 322 80 88

#97

1080 hl

list of beers

14.06

"Brewer: Alain Morand.
Officially registered in 1999 yet brewing (and selling) beers since 1993, the former Brasserie Artisanale de Fribourg founded by Alain Morand and Miklos Dornacher is one of the very first pioneer of craft beers in the country. It took them almost 20 years to find a ""real"" name (Fri-Mousse) for their brewery. If I had to choose one word to define this brewery, it would be ""constancy"". Constancy in quality but also - unfortunately - constancy in their offering.
They are producing nowadays about 1000 hl yearly and their first plant in the old city of Fribourg is too small for that since many years. If this site still remains ""officially"" their production facility, it is in fact only used for small- or test-batches and for visits as well. The exact location of their plant in Düdingen is a well-kept secret. Don't ask me why..."

FÜBI

Founded in 2019

1714 Heitenried

#1375

N/A

Inferno-Bräu

Founded in 2014

3210 Kerzers

#576

list of beers

N/A

la Faougueuse

Founded in 2013

route de Faoug 4
1583 Courtepin

079 706 42 49

#516

list of beers

11.4

Brewer: Stephane Scheurer.
Unstylish and not always flawless.

la Mécanique des Fluides

Founded in 2018

route de l'Ancienne Papeterie 130
1723 Marly

077 490 16 00

#1124

list of beers

14.69

la Voie de Garage

Founded in 2018

1663 Epagny

#1240

N/A

le Fou du Roi

Founded in 2016

rue du Tsantê 18
1663 Pringy

079 315 30 14

#842

list of beers

12.87

les Cigales

Founded in 2019

1700 Fribourg

#1420

N/A

Les Gobelins

Founded in 2016

route de Prin-Né 22
1691 Villarimboud

#816

200 hl

list of beers

13.7

Brewer: David Joye.

les Potes Brasseurs

Founded in 2019

1730 Ecuvillens

#1324

N/A

Lion Couchant

Founded in 2017

1728 Rossens

#1018

list of beers

N/A

Meduzin

Founded in 2015

Doktorweg 3
3210 Kerzers

#794

N/A

Prévert

Founded in 2006

route de Payerne 7
1470 Estavayer-le-Lac

026 663 14 13

#309

13 hl

list of beers

15.45

Brewer: Claude Rosset.
The revelation of the Biergarten 2010 in Granges-près-Marnand: very good beers!

RDY Brew

Founded in 2018

3185 Schmitten

#1268

N/A

Rieder-Bier

Founded in 2007

Agriswilstrasse 31
3216 Ried b. Kerzers

079 626 15 28

#267

40 hl

list of beers

14.2

Brewer: Andreas Berger

Sangal

Founded in 2015

route Saint Eloi 15
1470 Estavayer-le-Lac

079 919 57 47

#699

25 hl

list of beers

N/A

Brewer: Sann Galeuchet.

Simply Bier

Founded in 2017

Schützenmatt 3
3280 Murten

#1031

list of beers

N/A

Brewpubs (1)

Name

Address

Registry-#
Size/Production

# of beers
tasted

Rating avg
appreciation

Comments
Don't kill me, it's only my opinion...

la Croix Blanche

Founded in 1999

route de Fribourg 71
1725 Posieux

026 411 99 00

#102

600 hl

list of beers

9.03

Brewer: François Galley.
The place is very nice (wood, warm,...). Unfortunately the beers (except the Blonde if you are very lucky) are really not ...

Beer bars

Name

Address / Untappd venue

Homepage / Email

Rating

Comments

Banshees' Lodge

rue d'Or 5
1700 Fribourg

026 322 53 94

10 beers on tap and about 20 bottles. Irish bar like. Mostly Irish and Scottisch beers with other classical from Belgium. No Swiss beers (or rarely)

les Trentenaires

rue de Lausanne 87
1701 Fribourg

026 322 44 11

15 taps and about 150 bottles.
Lot of beers from Baladin, Swiss micros (Fri-Mousse, Freiburger Biermanufaktur, BFM, Trois Dames and Dr. Gab's) and some international classics. A beautiful and modern place.

Closed Breweries (33)

Name

Address

founded-closed

Contact

# of beers
tasted

Rating

Comments
Don't kill me, it's only my opinion...

Alex Pilloud

1618 Châtel-St-Denis

1900 - ?

N/A

BDG - Brasserie du Gibloux

route de Romanoche 19
1696 Vuisternens-en-Ogoz

2016 - 2018

922

N/A

Brewer: Ruben Cretegny.

Production: 30 hl

Beauregard

1700 Fribourg

1882 - 1970

N/A

Berger

1700 Fribourg

1875 - 1890

N/A

Bierwerkstatt

Mühleweg 53
3280 Murten

2000 - 2012

108

N/A

Brewer: Martin Gilgen & Daniel Geissbühler.
The brewery Henzi Bräu in Bellach (SO) was registered under the same number (108) from 1999 to 2001.

Production: 8 hl

Brasserie Artisanale du Bourg

Le Bourg 137
1618 Châtel-St-Denis

2011 - 2013

436

N/A

Brewers: Etienne and Vincent Michel.
Already temporary(?) inactive.

Production: 17 hl

Brasserie du Chauve

route de l'Ancienne Papeterie 190
1723 Marly

2010 - 2018

389

13.3

Brewer: Jann Poffet.
Interesting and decently well-made. Try it. Formerly located in Fribourg where a showroom (la petite brasserie du Chauve, chemin des Roches 1) now is active.
Closed in January 2019.

Production: 750 hl

Brasserie de Fribourg

1700 Fribourg

1876 - 1890

N/A

Brasserie du Midi

1630 Bulle

1885 - 1910

N/A

Brasserie des Gros

route d'Arlens 1
1675 Blessens

2014 - 2019

613

079 449 05 61

12.07

Brewers: Patrick and Jean-Marc Gros.
Not bad … but not very good either.

Cardinal

Passage du Cardinal
1701 Fribourg

1788 - 2011

7.62

Founded in 1788 by François Piller this brewery changed its name many times in its first 100 years. It chose its last name after the pope made the bishop of Fribourg a ... Cardinal in 1890.
In 1970 5 breweries joined forces to form the Sibra Holding (Cardinal, Beauregard, Comète, Salmenbräu and Wädenswil). It was 1996 when the Feldschloesschen-Huerlimann-Holding Group - which in the meantime purchased the majority of the capital from the Sibra Holding - announced the the closure of Cardinal. But Feldschloesschen had to face with serious resistance from the beer-lovers of the french-speaking part of the country. The sales dropped down and they had to come back on their decision.
Finally, the decision fell on August 2010: the plant will be closed on June 2011. The reason is the outsourcing by Carlsberg (owner of Feldschlösschen since 2000) of 20% of the production from the Feldschlösschen Group. The plant in Fribourg being used at 40%, it seems logical that Feldschlösschen chose to regroup the production in Rheinfelden.
The brand Cardinal is still brewed nowadays (in Rheinfelden or in Sion, no idea): the Blonde, Spéciale, Blanche, Draft and Lime Cut.

Production: 450'000 hl

Cieux

Champ des Pierres 9
1782 Cormagens

2007 - 2016

270

14.55

Brewer: Dominique Javet
Dominique is looking for perfection and the least I can say is that he can brew wonderful beers. His production is unfortunately very tiny.

Collaud

1630 Bulle

1880 - 1905

N/A

Devevey

1470 Estavayer-le-Lac

1875 - 1900

N/A

Originally called Busch.

Gerstenbrand

1470 Estavayer-le-Lac

1875 - 1890

N/A

Originally called Treyer.

Grangier et Bondalez

1470 Estavayer-le-Lac

1875 - 1880

N/A

Haldemann

route de la Gare 4
1786 Sugiez

1998 - 2018

112

026 673 00 37

14.06

Brewer: Freddy Haldemann
Very creative and interesting beers from this very small brewery. Freddy came back on track with great creative beers full of character after having followed shortly the devilish way of compromise between 2006 and 2009. Brewed a special beer for The Stillman's which is then aged in whisky barrels and bottled by them.

Production: 800 hl

la Houblonnière

Route des Colombettes
1628 Vuadens

1992 - 2001

13.8

Brewer: Jean-Pierre Bertinotti
The first microbrewery in the french speaking part of the country. Was owned by Jean-Pierre Bertinotti. Very distinctive, it had at that time the most interesting beers of the country. Unfortunately closed now.

la Luneire

1691 Villarimboud

2014 - 2016

584

N/A

Brewer: Pascal Panchaud and David Fontaine.

Production: 8 hl

l'Epée

1700 Fribourg

1875 - 1905

N/A

Lessoc

1669 Lessoc

1999 - 2001

N/A

Marcassine

route de la Léchère 41
1614 Granges

2004 - 2018

190

021 947 30 03

N/A

Brewer: Yves Birbaum.

Production: 3 hl

Memphis Bar Bulle

rue Victor-Tissot 2
1630 Bulle

2008 - 2011

313

7.2

"Another brewpub offering beers of very bad homebrew quality; not the first and unfortunately not the last in the french speaking part of the country. Deeply damaging the reputation of craft beers.
Added to that, the brewpub is a tragically bad place to be: drunk people pushing and provoking; dirty floors and tables ... A place to avoid!"

Nobs Bräu

ch. de la prairie 10
1720 Corminboeuf

1997 - 2016

118

N/A

Brewer: Paul-Albert Nobs.
Actually inactive (November 2008)

Petitpierre

3280 Murten

1826 - ?

N/A

Pignon

chemin Moille au Cristou 16
1619 les Paccots

2015 - 2016

707

13.6

Brewer: Pierre Noirat.
Above average beers which are worth to try.

Production: 2 hl

Poletti

1700 Fribourg

1875 - 1880

N/A

Romont

1680 Romont

1875 - 1905

N/A

First named Zimmermann.

Schaller

1630 Bulle

1873 - 1895

N/A

Schopfer Frères

1700 Fribourg

1880 - 1890

N/A

Scottish Pub

route du Jura 47
1701 Fribourg

1999 - 2006

104

12.13

Nice modern pub (if you like karaoke, it's the right place !). 3 beers (blonde, blanche and rousse). The brewer is very kind and ready to show the installations. Worth a try.

Spinnler

3280 Murten

1875 - 1897

N/A

The Stillman's

Bodenzelgstrasse 89b
3212 Gurmels

2011 - 2018

13.95

Client brewer. Whisky importer and independent whisky bottler which offer beers aged in whisky barrels. The basis beer was first brewed by Haldemann then by Fleisch und Brau (for me with a sensible lost of quality), ageing and bottling are done by the Stillman's.

Production: 40 hl

Name	Address	Registry-# Size	# of beers tasted	Rating avg appreciation	Comments Don't kill me, it's only my opinion...
ProMurten Founded in 2011	Freiburgstrasse 112 3280 Murten		1	14.8	Client brewer: the beer (http://www.bodemuenzi.ch) is produced by Trois Dames

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