Genève
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reviewed by yours truly: 88.5% (23)
Thank you for letting me know about any corrections or missing informations! (bov (at) bov.ch)
Genève |
[back to the main page] reviewed by yours truly: 88.5% (23) Thank you for letting me know about any corrections or missing informations! (bov (at) bov.ch) |
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The breweries displayed with a yellow background do not appear anymore on the list of the Federal Customs, yet seem to be still active. I will keep them for some time in the hope that they will regulate their situation.
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B.U.G. (Brasserie Urbaine Genevoise) Founded in 2015 | rue du Comte-Géraud 15 1213 Onex 
#666
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40 hl 4
| 10.8
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Brewer: Pierre Balmat. | Probably inactive. Bière du Lac |  Founded in 2014 chemin de Sur-Beauvent 2 | 1232 Confignon
#624
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250 hl 5
| 14.08
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Brewer: Michel Wagner. | Brews about 10 beers in belgian and english-styles. Has also a bar-restaurant opened daily from 4 to 8 pm. Bière du Pendule | Founded in 2017 Rampe de Chavant 24 | 1232 Confignon
#1103
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4
| 13.6
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| Bières du Niton |  Founded in 2015 rue Soubeyran 7 | 1203 Genève
#664
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250 hl 5
| 10.8
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Brewer: Fabio D'Onofrio. | Formerly named SDS. Brewing 5 core beers (named by colour) on a 3 hl installation and with 2 employees at each 50%.  Brasserie artisanale de Beaulieu | Founded in 2018 1203 Genève #1157
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N/A
| N/A
| Probably inactive.
| Brasserie de la Borne |  Founded in 2020 Rue des Sablières 1 | 1217 Meyrin
#1542
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3
| 14.13
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Brewer: David Rosello & Mathieu Sonney. | Offers 3 core beers. Brasserie du Mât |  Founded in 2017 avenue de Châtelaine 43 | 1203 Genève
#1079
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500 hl 4
| 13.6
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Brewing 3 core beers and some seasonals on 5 hl installation.
| Brasserie du Virage |  Founded in 2015 chemin de Maronsy 50 | 1228 Plan-les-Ouates
#677
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1’000 hl 45
| 14.05
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Brewer: Livio Simeone and Quentin Damien. | Brews 6 core beers and some seasonals in Anglo-American and Belgian styles on a 30 hl installation. Chien Bleu |  Founded in 2016 Sentiers des Saules 3 | 1205 Genève
#914
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23
| 15.72
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"Brewer: Julien Manetti. | Brewing on a 5 hl installation and planning 300 hl yearly. Brews 2 core beers, 5 seasonals and many one-shots and collabs. Mastering sour and barrel-aged beers in an impressive way. Don't miss this brewery!" Glouglou |  Founded in 2013 avenue du Devin-du-Village 8 | 1203 Genève
#530
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150 hl 4
| 14.4
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Brewer: Christian Andersen. | Brewing on a 4 hl installation. Gotan |  Founded in 2018 route d'Avully 12 | 1237 Avully
#1285
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2
| 12.4
| Brewing 5 core beers and some seasonals of Anglo-American styles. | Closed. I will remove it as soon as the closure is official by the Federal Customs. Hoppy Pug |  Founded in 2021 Chemin de Malvand 12A | 1292 Chambésy
#1629
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N/A
| N/A
| Brewing on a 80 liters installation.
| la Cave |  Founded in 2018 Chemin de la Gradelle 65 | 1224 Chêne-Bougeries
#1175
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26
| 14.88
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Brewer: Yann Zossot. | Brewing only one-shot brews in 75 cl bottles or kegs on a 5 hl installation. Made a short break between 2021 and 2022 to get bigger. la Pièce |  Founded in 2015 route de Prévessin 62 | 1217 Meyrin
#738
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260 hl 10
| 14.2
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"Brewers: Raphael Félix and Laurent Serex. | Offers very interesting and well-crafted beers, a range of 4 core beers and different one-shots." la Source |  Founded in 2017 route des Lolliets 41 | 1286 Soral
#990
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4
| 14.6
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Brewing 6 core beers named by their colour.
| l'Agneau à Trois Pattes |  Founded in 2018 Route de Colovrex 36 | 1218 Grand-Saconnex
#1181
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7
| 14.34
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"Brewers: Arno Gisselbaek, Bastien Quiquerez and Till Kossler. | Offering good beers and focusing on local ingredients. Projecting to open a brewpub. Formerly located in Chambésy." L'Apaisée |  Founded in 2015 route des Jeunes 19 | 1227 Carouge
#692
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82
| 15.94
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Brewer: Xavier Righetti. | Brews on a 10 hl installation. Specialist of barrel-aged and sour beers. Superb and complex beers: clearly a top ten brewery in the country. les Barbus |  Founded in 2016 chemin des Bornands 1 | 1257 Genève
#927
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5
| 14.32
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| ModBeers |  Founded in 2013 avenue Vibert 18 | 1227 Carouge #499
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875 hl 4
| 10.7
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Brewers: Mauro Parachini and Madjid Dusan Pajic. Formerly named Maitre dé Bataille and Brasserie des Tours. Inactive between 2020 and 2021. Restarted in 2022 and collaborating with the Open Baladin concept.
| Murailles |  Founded in 2001 route de Corsinge 48 | 1252 Meinier
#151
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3’800 hl 14
| 13.6
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"Brewer: Nathalie Droz and Philippe Margand. | This brewery has 9 employees and produces about than 4'000 hectoliters yearly. Offers a core range of 7 beers + 2 seasonals, mainly of belgian inspiration brewed on a 20 hl installation. Despite its respectable size, it is a very local brewery and their products are hard to find outside the canton of Geneva. Brews some Velosophe beers under contract and also exporting to the USA (Washington)." Ouin Ouin |  Founded in 2019 1226 Thônex #1349
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N/A
| N/A
| A homebrewery. And very probably inactive.
| Père Jakob |  Founded in 2009 chemin des Effeuilles 84 | 1286 Soral
#343
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1’400 hl 12
| 13.67
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"Brewer: Emilie Gros, Stefan Jakob and Fabien Claret. | Brewing on a 5 hl installation and having 5 employes. Clearly interesting. Most brews are a new recipe and, strangely enough in this part of the country, the brewers are brewing bottom-fermented beers (except the wheat of course). Uneven quality but some of their beers can be really good. Its goal is to reach 2000 to 3000 hl in the next years." Post Tenebras |  Founded in 2016 chemin Tornay 26 | 1218 Le Grand-Saconnex
#958
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5
| 12.16
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Brewers: Olivier Delaloye and Simon Fraga. | Brews 7 core beers and some seasonals in Anglo-American styles. Probably inactive. Schori's Beer |  Founded in 2014 chemin du Daru 4 | 1228 Plan-les-Ouates
#598
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9 hl 4
| 10.9
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Brewer: René Schori. | Probably inactive. |
| Name | Address | Registry-# Size/Production | # of beers tasted | Rating avg appreciation | Comments Don't kill me, it's only my opinion... | ||||||
les Brasseurs Genève Founded in 1997 | Place Cornavin 20 1201 Genève
#73
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2’000 hl 4
| 6.7
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"Brewers: Maxime Mathieu and Etienne Perrollaz. | Inspired by the concept of les 3 Brasseurs in France (modern-style brewpubs serving mostly fast food), les Brasseurs started in Geneva (1997) before invading more cities of the french-speaking part of Switzerland: Lausanne (2000), Nyon (2001), Neuchâtel (2007) and Sion (2015). Offer top-fermented, mainly poor, out-of-style and sometimes pretty bad beers. A bad publicity for craft beers." Molard |  Founded in 2000 Place du Molard 9 | 1204 Genève
#161
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1’100 hl 3
| 6
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Brewer: José Sobreira and Pierre Rieux. | I have sampled their beers back in 2003 and they were quite horrible at that time. Who knows where they stay nowaydays… |
| Name | Address | Registry-# Size | # of beers tasted | Rating avg appreciation | Comments Don't kill me, it's only my opinion... | ||||||
Frères Papinot Founded in 1999 | chemin des Erables 8 1213 Petit-Lancy
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2’500 hl 5
| 12.8
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Client brewer. The (decent) beers are produced by Locher. A fact which Calvinus unfortunately tries to hide because it could hurt the local touch they want to give to their beers. Enjoys a constant growth.
| Vélosophe |  Founded in 2016 chemin de Valérie 19 | 1292 Chambésy
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180 hl 2
| 10.8
| Client brewer. The beers are brewed in Germany by Hilsenbeck and in Switzerland by Murailles.
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| Name | Address / Untappd venue | Homepage / Email | Rating | Comments |
La Jonquille | Chemin du 23-Août 3 1205 Genève  
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| "36 taps. Only Swiss beers, most of them from the canton of Geneva." |
La Taproom | rue des Grottes 13 1201 Genève
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| "36 taps (yet ""only"" 18 for beers)" |
Tom Beers | rue de Montchoisy 12 1207 Genève
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| A bar and a shop. 24 taps and about 200 bottles |
| Name | Address | founded-closed | Contact | # of beers tasted | Rating | Comments Don't kill me, it's only my opinion... |
| Avenir (Brasserie de l') | 1200 Genève | 1826 - 1927
| N/A | N/A | Originally called brasserie de la Bâtie. | |
Belle de Genève | rue de Montbrillant 38 1211 Genève | 2003 - 2007 167 |
| 2 | 8.6 | "Not a brewery but a Client brewer. The beers are brewed elsewhere in the country (Turbinenbräu) and were at sometimes even brewed in France. This fact was originally maintained secret, probably because of the importance of the marketing aspect to brew local beer. The status of la Belle de Genève was quite unknown in 2004. They had to face some financial problems and closed the Brasserie Artisanale de Genève (which probably never really existed ...). They came back in march 2005 with the ambition to build a brewery in Genève. It looks again a bit different since 2007 as the phone number and email published on the contact list are no more valid and it seems you have to make your orders via the webmaster ... Very strange." Production: 240 hl |
BierKlub | rue de Carouge 72 1205 Genève | 2015 - 2022 748 |
| 1 | 14.4 | Brewer: Patrick Japs. Probably inactive. |
Bingen | chemin de la Grande-Cour 8 1284 Chancy | 2014 - 2015 636 |
| N/A | N/A | Brewers: Johann Schulthess and Stéphane Hagmann. |
| Birrificio Il Forno | route de Chancy 71 1213 Petit-Lancy | 2001 - 2011 135 | 3 | 5.8
| "God, help me ! I think I have found the worst brewery in Switzerland. It should not be allowed to present such beers ! They can only have improved since I sampled their beers (2003), so if you feel bold and lucky, try your chance." | |
| Bomonti | 1200 Genève | 1830 - 1927
| N/A | N/A | Originally called Schwarz. | |
Brasserie du Bon Houblon | 1225 Chêne-Bourg | 2019 - 2024 1351 | N/A | N/A | A homebrewery. | |
| Brasserie de Pâques | 1200 Genève | 1856 - 1904
| N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Brasserie de Plainpalais | 1205 Genève | 2016 - 2024 931 | N/A | N/A | Seems to be inactive. | |
Brasserie des Cinq Communes | avenue Massenet 8 1228 Plan-les-Ouates | 2017 - 2023 1021 |
| 2 | 11.8 | Brewer: Cédric Rinolfi. Offering beers in belgian styles. Production: 20 hl |
Brasserie des Coudres | route des Coudres 29 1298 Céligny | 2014 - 2019 596 |
| 5 | 14.8
| Brewer: Fabien Baudet and Florian Golay. Good beers with an interesting character. Production: 30 hl |
| Brasserie des Cousins | route du Mandement 534 1283 Dardagny | 2016 - 2018 843 |  | N/A | N/A | Brewers: Dan Röthlisberger and Xavier Münger. |
Brasserie du Plombier | route de Drize 26 1227 Carouge | 2019 - 2022 1325 |
| 8 | 10.05
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Brasseurs des Grottes | rue de la Servette 6 1201 Genève | 2002 - 2011 143 |
| 3 | 7.6
| "Unmatured beers. Only the Ambrée is drinkable. I have tried them in 2003, so an update would be interesting." |
Canobeer | 1203 Genève | 2015 - 2022 696 |
| N/A | N/A | Brewer: Kamel Guendouz. Closed shortly (2020/2021) Production: 35 hl |
Cascade | rue du Néant 8 1207 Genève | 2014 - 2016 640 |
| N/A | N/A | Brewer: Laurent Charles Berney. |
Cave Reynard | chemin des Moraines 7 1233 Bernex | 2016 - 2018 814 |
| N/A | N/A | Brewer: Eskylla Reynard. |
| Champendahl | 1227 Carouge | 1874 - 1916
| N/A | N/A | Originally named Fabrique de Bière de Carouge | |
| Corsier | 1246 Corsier | 1863 - 1918
| N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Geneva Craft Brewery | rue John Grasset 10 1205 Genève | 2018 - 2022 1256 | 3 | 12.13
| Brewer: Paul Halfpenny. Probably inactive. | |
| Grande Brasserie de Munich | 1200 Genève | 1880 - 1895
| N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Grange-Canal | 1224 Chene-Bourgeries | 1875 - 1918
| N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Gut | 1200 Genève | 1875 - 1890
| N/A | N/A | Originally called Flühler. | |
| Gutmann | 1225 Chene-Bourg | 1875 - 1880
| N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Hofweber | 1227 Carouge | 1880 - 1885
| N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| la Brasserie à Z | 1203 Genève | 2015 - 2022 736 | N/A | N/A | Brewer: Christian Zapf. Probably inactive. | |
| La Pibauderie | 1239 Collex | 2023 - 2024 1789 | N/A | N/A | - | |
les Brasseurs Artisans de Genève | 1228 Plan-les-Ouates | 2014 - 2016 604 | | N/A | N/A | An association for the promotion of craft beers in the canton of Geneva. |
Minuscule | chemin de la Californie 23 1222 Vésenaz | 2016 - 2023
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| 1 | 10 | Client brewer. The beers were first brewed by Jorat and then by Cap'taine Mousse. |
Moustache | 1227 Carouge | 2017 - 2022 1002 |
| N/A | N/A | Brewer: Christophe Buser. Probably inactive. |
| Mundinger | 1290 Versoix | 1875 - 1900
| N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Nordah | 1212 Grand-Lancy | 2016 - 2018 939 | N/A | N/A | - | |
| Ouvrière de Genève | 1201 Genève | 2018 - 2020 1232 | N/A | N/A | - | |
| Servier | 1249 Collex-Bossy | 1875 - 1878
| N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| SG / l'Arrêt de Bus | route de Juvigny 21 1254 Jussy | 2018 - 2020 1172 | N/A | N/A | - | |
| St.-Jean | 1200 Genève | 1873 - 1927
| N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Steinsailer | 1227 Carouge | 1880 - 1885
| N/A | N/A | N/A | |
Totally Beer | chemin des Vignes 18 1213 Petit Lancy | 2015 - 2022 767 |
| 13 | 13.23
| Brewer: Fabricio Ataide. Brews 5 core beers of belgian styles. Closed in October 2022. Production: 100 hl |
| White Rabbit | 1247 Anières | 2018 - 2022 1128 | N/A | N/A | Probably inactive. | |
| Wintsch-Kleber | 1214 Vernier | ? - 1900
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
<50 hl/yr: picobrewey (part-time or hobby)
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The nec plus ultra ! Don't miss those breweries.
Very good breweries !
Above average and satisfying.
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Average.
Not terrible.
This is getting pretty bad.
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Be cautious: you may REALLY not like it !