All category winners and the main winners of the Brau- und Rauchshop Craft Beer Contest 2022. In addition, Silvia allows us to look behind the scenes and reveals who sticks the 5400 stickers on the drip stops.
Hobby vs. Pro
Is it unfair if pro and home brewers compete against each other at the same contest? And how can you tell the difference of a home-brewer and a professional brewery?
Year in Review 2021: The Year Craft Beer Became Boring
Was 2021 the year beer became boring? Or to put it another way, when was the last development in beer that was really exciting?
Why there was no winner in the DIPA category at the B&R Beer Contest
For the first time in the seven-year history of the Brau- & Rauchshop Beer Contest, there were no winners in one category. Why? The short answer is because no beer deserved it. The slightly more detailed answer below.
Brau & Rauch Beer Contest 2021
At the Brau und Rauch Beer Contest 2021, an independent jury evaluated 380 beers in a double-blind procedure and selected an overall winner in addition to the category winners.
Swiss breweries do not want a definition of craft beer
Do we all understand the same thing by the term craft beer? Probably not, which is why there are always attempts to define the term or the phenomenon. In our survey of Swiss breweries, we also asked what they consider craft beer to be and what they don’t consider it to be. Do the breweries agree? Here is our analysis.
Swiss brewery names – or does every city need its own brew factory and garage brewing?
We found many similar names of breweries in the world. Now we have taken a closer look at the situation in Switzerland. Here are our findings.
Digital transformation meets craft beer: Artificial intelligence creates beer recipe
Can a robot, in the sense of an artificial being with artificial intelligence, design a beer recipe? Lucerne University of Applied Sciences, Jaywalker Digital and MN Brew wanted to find out. And so did we.
Peter, Beet and Reilly – Tasting of Bachweg Brewing beers
We’ve already introduced you to Bachweg Brewery from Zug here. To complete the picture, we have tasted their beer and present you our five favorite beers of the brewery.
Portrait: Bachweg Brewing
Inspired by the beers of their homeland, the craft beer enthusiasts at Bachweg Brewery brewed their first batch in 2013. Since 2015, they’ve been doing it under the name Bachweg Brewing. Read what some of the names mean, who the six owners are, and why a barn is featured on the labels.
The year 2020: Solidarity good. COVID and NEIPA bad
Craft beer brewers and protagonists of the beer community tell how their 2020 was and what they expect, wish and fear from 2021.
Sour beer breweries are the better Swiss breweries – according to Untappd Top 50
Swiss breweries are not world class and at least 5 other findings from the Untappd Top 50 Swiss Breweries.