AtlasSwitzerland43 on record

Switzerland

Western Europe

Swiss brewing spent most of the twentieth century inside a cartel that fixed prices and carved up territories, which froze the industry in place until it was dismantled in the early 1990s. Everything interesting here is younger than that.

Beers on record

PlateSwitzerland7 towns

Fig. 2. Circle area is beers on record for that town. Labels appear as room allows, so zooming in reveals towns rather than enlarging them. Only towns whose coordinates could be sourced are drawn, so an unmarked town means a missing coordinate rather than a town without beer. Tiles from OpenFreeMap and OpenMapTiles, data from OpenStreetMap.

Towns as a table7

Towns in Switzerland with beers on record
Town	Beers
Rheinfelden	23
Frauenfeld	4
Appenzell	2
Arbon	2
Fribourg	1
Winterthur	1
Sankt-Gallen	1

The colour of these beersSRM 5–5 · median 5

Styles here

On the recordcounted from 43 beers

Strength

The median is 5.0% ABV. Half of them fall between 4.8% and 5.2%. Measured on 33 of the 43; the rest carry no strength.

Strongest Feldschlösschen Stark7.0%
Weakest Feldschlösschen Alkoholfrei Lager0.5%

The record here

Breweries12
Towns10
Styles8

Oldest brewery with a sourced year: Brauerei Locher AG, 1810.

Oldest beer with a sourced year: Cardinal, 1768.

These are facts about this record, not about the world. They are counted from the beers on file, and the atlas is only as deep as its sources: 74% of everything it holds is American or Dutch, because that is what the bulk import reached, not because that is where beer is. So the styles most often recorded in Switzerland are not necessarily the ones most often brewed there, and a country with few beers here has a thin record rather than a thin brewing scene.

43 beers

Appenzeller Quöllfrisch

Appenzell, Switzerland

Feldschlösschen Original

Rheinfelden, Switzerland

Cardinal

Fribourg, Switzerland · 1768

Pale Lager

1291

4.8%

Rheinfelden, Switzerland