{"id":5746,"date":"2021-02-03T16:38:53","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T15:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bierversuche.ch\/blog\/?p=5746"},"modified":"2021-02-05T08:27:40","modified_gmt":"2021-02-05T07:27:40","slug":"sour-beer-breweries-are-the-better-swiss-breweries-according-to-untappd-top-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bierversuche.ch\/blog\/en\/2021\/02\/sour-beer-breweries-are-the-better-swiss-breweries-according-to-untappd-top-50\/","title":{"rendered":"Sour beer breweries are the better Swiss breweries – according to Untappd Top 50"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

According to the Untappd Top 50 list of Swiss breweries<\/a>, none of them are world-class, German-speaking Switzerland is underrepresented in the list, and again, sour beers help with good ratings. Here is our analysis of the Untappd list of the best 50 Swiss breweries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We have already discussed which Swiss beers are the best according to Untappd and whether Switzerland has a world-class beer (see here<\/a>). Are Untappd ratings relevant? Not for everyone, but not for anyone either.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Untappd, you can also view the top-rated breweries. Untappd’s list of the top 50 breweries<\/a> is „based on our weighted average formula, which effectively rates all breweries against each other and weights the beers with higher rating numbers. A brewery must have at least 1,000 ratings and at least 5 beers in its portfolio to qualify for this list.“<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Disclaimer: everything here is based on the top 50 – if the entire list could be evaluated, the results potentially look different.)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps the sad news first. None of the Swiss breweries achieve a world-class rating: to get into the top-50 worldwide, you need a 4.27 and the Swiss number 1 Nine Brothers has a 3.97. At the same time, this means that no Swiss brewery has a rating above 4 and on Untappd a 4 and more is roughly equivalent to considered „good“.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What do we notice when we look at the list?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sour beer producers have it easier<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Analogous to the best beers, sour beers lead to good ratings – the top 3 breweries are known primarily or only for their sour beers, and more than half in the top 10 produce sour beers at least sometimes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lager beer producers hardly in the top 50<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Unsurprisingly, Feldschl\u00f6sschen or Calanda are not on this list. But why not Locher or Sch\u00fctzengarten? After all, they have an infinite number of fans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lager can’t be considered an exclusion criterion here, because the Rathaus Brauerei Luzern ranks 18th (yes, they’ve also brewed an IPA and stout at some point, but still). However, it is certainly the case that breweries that brew mostly lagers and wheats have little chance of making the list. This could be related to the fact that drinkers of standard beers are less likely to be on Untapped than beernerds, and beernerds tend to turn their noses up at lagers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

German-speaking Switzerland is underrepresented<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The list of best Swiss beers is dominated by breweries from French-speaking Switzerland. On the best breweries list there are 29 from the German-speaking region (58%), 18 from French-speaking Switzerland (36%) and 3 (6%) from Italian-speaking Switzerland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This finding is put into perspective somewhat, as seven breweries in the top 10 come from French-speaking Switzerland. And according to our own evaluation, 73% of all CH breweries are in German-speaking Switzerland, 24% from French-speaking Switzerland and 3% from Italian-speaking Switzerland. German-speaking Switzerland is therefore underrepresented – or in other words: 36 breweries should come from German-speaking Switzerland in order to correspond to the proportion of the basic population of all breweries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Je mehr Ratings pro Bier je weiter unten auf der Liste<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

We already voiced this hypothesis in our last post on the best Swiss beers. To evaluate this, we formed groups and compared the average of ratings per group. And indeed, the more ratings per beer a brewery has, the lower the rating. But the average rating then rises, falls again, rises, falls and then shoots through the roof.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What do we learn from this?<\/p>\n\n\n\n