Eichhof Klosterbräu (Eichhof)
Kluge	Tastes like a nice unfiltered beer in the beginning, but in the end you only taste that it lacks any substantial carbonation
Wesi	Sweet and pretty low on carbonation. Didn't like it at all on the first try, but started to get used to it. Every brewery is trying to sneak its share from the amazing success Ittinger had with its Klosterbra¨u. This attempt by Eichhof is not bad, but they still got way to go...
St.Galler Klosterbräu (Schützengarten)
Wesi	Yet another Klosterbräu. I'm amazed on how many holy convents with beer brewing monks seem to exist in Switzerland. This one is made by the "oldest Swiss brewery". Typically sweet aftertaste, abundant in aroma hops. Decently carbonated, but still leaving a kinda stale impression.
Falken Klosterbräu (Falken Schaffhausen)
Wesi	Sigh. It is Klosterbräu time in Switzerland, and everybody is playing game. This one is a highlight, though. Nice turbid color, fresh and lively, nicely carbonated with a rather prominent fruity aftertaste. Pretty good.
Kluge	A low-carbonated turbid beer. The charm of its malt taste meets the carbonation level.
Hopfe-Häx Naturtrüeb (Brewery missing)
Wesi	Beautiful turbid color. Flavor very fruity indeed, and not very beer-like. I would rather have guessed it to be the slimy liquid that comes with canned pear halves. I don't like sweet beers.
Falken Schwarz-Bier mit Emmer (Falken)
Wesi	First of all: Congrats! Switzerland is badly short of decent ambers and I surely welcome every attempt to launch a new one. The Falken Schwarz Beer is a bit too well carbonated and a bit too decently chilled - otherwise, it would remind me strongly of goode olde Britain. If you're British and homesick, this is the beer to try. By the way: Whadda heck is an Emmer?
Kluge	Sniff. Sniff. Hm. Something rotten in the air. This is a really strange one, tastes like a some lemonade with roasted dark malt dissolved in it. Otherwise, not much taste, or aftertaste, to speak of. The non-beer.
Appenzeller Weizen (Locher, Appenzell)
Kluge	Smells like leftover of last year's wheat, looks like rusty water. Tastes disappointingly like nothing particular at all, like iced tea without sugar maybe. Little carbonation, metallica.
Wesi	Disappointing. Starting like a wheat beer, but lacking the spirit, freshness and taste of a true Weizen. Kinda smells like the water of Lake Zurich in mid summer: Lukewarm, sweet, with a wiff of algae. Brrr.
Wildschwein Bier (Müller, Baden)
Wesi	Before trying this one, had someone told me that Müller makes a decent brew I would have laughed my a** off. So you can imagine how surprised I was when I took the first sip - Wildschwein is a well balanced, malty and rather full-bodied special lager, and is pretty good. What makes it even better is that some undisclosed part of the revenue they rake in with this brew goes into nature conservation projects in the canton Aargau. Liquid charity, now that's my taste :-)
Valaisanne Special (Valaisanne)
Wesi	One of the fruity specials. Kinda like a non-alc beer like Schlossgold, with a candy-gum-yummy aftertaste. The sweetness is met by a decent hoppy bitterness and, sigh, also a hint of metal. Drinkable.
Kluge	Smells like hops, tastes like hops, and has an aftrtaste that is quite hoppy, although it falls short of being metallic.
Albertus Hell Spezial (Egger)
Wesi	Huh? Low on carbonation, even lower on taste. Hint of metal in the aftertaste, but otherwise quite nothing. Sucks. I think I know what goode olde Albertus died of...
Kluge	Flat, non-tasting non-descript beer.
Fleur D'Arbeilles (Honey-Beer) (Egger)
Wesi	Yack! A triple-boak beer for sure, only by the smell of it. No taste, just plain honey sweetness. Like the tea they give you in youth camps and hospitals. Sukks big time - I'd rather have a coke.
Kluge	If you're fond of flat american beers and heavy, really heavy, artificial sweetness, this might be a beer for you.
Wädi Bräu Millenium Bock (Wädi Brau Huus)
Kluge	Ugh. If you ever wondered what a biotech startup - lets say in the field of decomposing germs - can do, you just hit the jackpot. Some revolting taste of highpowered hops, but without the bitterness. Hops without the hops. Just some taste - whatever it is.
Wesi	Nice turbid color, decently hopped but still not too bitter. Strange hint of medicine in the aftertaste.
Ueli Fischer Stube (Ueli, Riehen)
Wesi	Turbid, with the right amount of carbonation and an excellent mixture of aroma and bitter hops. Not really a very distinct taste, but easily drinkable. Kinda like a lighter version of Ittinger.
Kluge	Fruity, but not offendingly artificial or overly sweet. Still nicely hopped, tasty, well carbonated. Slight hint of apple in the aftertaste. Good.
Boxer La Forte (Boxer)
Wesi	Fruity-hoppy, low on carbonation. Sweet and bitter, makes your tongue both stick to your teeth and feeling dry all the same. Gets a bonus for its 8p.c. alc, otherwise I'd rip it to pieces.
Kluge	Industrial strength hopping. Sucks.
Boxer Goldbügel (Boxer)
Wesi	Yack. Hoppy metallic dry bitter sucking-on-a-tincan type of beer. Sweet perfume-like smell. Bigtime weirdo.
Kluge	This is a strange kinda beer. Smells like one in the earliest stage of brewing and tastes even more like it. Something for beer pedophiles, maybe.
Boxer Hacienda Hanf (Boxer)
Kluge	Bad metallic lager, the hoppy hint seems to glue the metallic aftertaste to your tongue. Chew on it all night long.
Wesi	My my, the Boxer brewery does get a beating tonite. If there were a chewing gum with beer taste, this would be it. Sticky, chewy, sucks all night long.
Sonnenbräu Rheintaler Maisbier (Sonnenbräu Rebstein)
Wesi	Imagine an ordinary lager, with just a hint of apple juice added. Fruity lingering aftertaste of cider and apples. Not too bad, but somehow, well, gutless. Brewed with Reinthaler Ribelmais, which is a rare type of white corn of traditional rhine valley origin - that doesn't make the beer any better, though :-)
Billwiller First Class (Schützengarten)
Kluge	Quite nicely hopped, slight aromatic taste. Its metallic aftertaste could get really annoying if you drink more than one bottle. By the way, nice "things" floating in it.
Wesi	Hoppy, with a pretty metallic aftertaste. I wonder where all that stuff floating in it comes from - did they forget to filter it, or do they add it later for show ? Still, not a must-have, but quite ok.
Schützengarten Naturtrüeb (Schützengarten St Gallen)
Wesi	Fruity, hoppy, dungheap kinda smell, but taste is pretty nice. OK.
Kluge	Smells like an empty beer barrel in the sun for two weeks and tastes like a week less.
Calanda Edelbräu (Calanda)
Wesi	You know how to tell where the horse carriage stops are in a tourist city ? Yep: by the smell. This one is the Carriage Stop Beer (tm). Stinky, both hoppy and sweet. You could get used to it, but I don't think you'd want to...
Kluge	Very peculiar smell and aftertaste, the heck knows what it is. Gets annoying quite quickly.
Celtic Whiskey Brew (Löwenbräu Zürich)
Wesi	More Whiskey *aroma* than Whiskey. Just awfully sweet and nothing else. Sucks.
Berno	Fruity-sweet. Nice light-brown color. Drink it iced cold when it is hot outside. Otherwise: Hands off.
Vollmond Bier (Locher / El Internacional, Appenzell)
Wesi	Lots of marketing gags on the label - a promise the content doesn't keep. Offending metallic aftertaste. The whales, apparently getting 5 cents per bottle, might be the only ones liking this beer. Burp-and-fart beer. Sucks.
Häxli (Hürlimann, Zürich)
Wesi	Malty amber with noticeable roast. According to the label brewed only in full-moon nights. The proof that Hürlimann would be able to brew good beers - if only they'd try harder. Overall: A good one.
Wädi Brau Huus Hell (Wädi Brauhuus, Wädenswil)
Wesi	Boring taste. Nothing special, just flat and thin. Swiss beer on its way to America...
Wädi Brau Huus Dunkel (Wädi Brau Huus, Wädenswil)
Wesi	Very light amber beer. Just a slight hint of malt. Good and rather tasty.
Wädi Brau Huus Ur-Pils (Wädi Brau Huus, Wädenswil)
Wesi	Acceptable, but not outstanding. Far better than "Wädi Brau Huus Hell", though. OK.
Ittinger Klosterbräu (Actienbrauerei Frauenfeld ==> now Heineken)
Wesi	Very light amber beer. Malty, but well balanced and perfectly blended with hops. Not bad, really. One of the Swiss beer highlights. Recently upgraded to the top rating since it kept being my favorite swiss beer for over one year now. Unfortunately, Ittinger Brewery has been acquired by Heineken, which means that one of the best Swiss beers comes to the end of its descent from tasty microbrew to boring mass market. Watch this space for the impeding downgrade.
Berno	Fruity. Great amber color. Well balanced bitterness. Hops from the monastery garden - you can smell da Lord.
Back & Brau Hell (Back & Brau, Zürich)
Wesi	Perfectly normal lager. Tasty, but with an insisting hint of chemistry. They have good, fresh bagels, though. Get your bagels at Back & Brau, but get your beer somewhere else.
Spiess Edelhell (Brauerei Eichhof, Luzern)
Wesi	As good as lager can be. Fresh like a draft, but lots more taste. Elegant, just cool and really tasty!
Cardinal Original Draft (Cardinal-Sibra, Fribourg)
Wesi	Refreshing, slightly limey taste. Funny green-yellowish color. Used to be my favorite. I still like it, but I come to think it tastes a bit too much like one of these boring Coors or Busch beers. Join the club, anyway. It's still better than most.
Berno	Like a thin Weizen. Good, refreshing taste. The beer you'd like to drink one after the other if you're really thirsty.
Cardinal Lager (Cardinal-Sibra, Fribourg)
Wesi	Mild, slightly bitter taste, decent aftertaste. Perfectly normal lager, but refreshing and easy to drink. A bit watery, both in color and in taste, but overall quite good.
Rosengarten Alpenbier (Rosengarten)
Kluge	Bö. Smells worse than it tastes. Strong smell of hops, but no nastiness in its taste. The aftertaste is flat and boring.
Wesi	Yack, my goodness! Where's the taste? Stinks like a horse stable, but tastes like "space, the final frontier" : VOID.
Calanda Ice (Calanda-Haldengut)
Wesi	OK if you're really thirsty. Awfully thin. According to the label, it is "made with pure mountain spring water". The last four words are true.
Berno	Easy to drink, but really thin. A beer for women.
Hürlimann Stern-Bräu (Hürlimann, Zürich)
Wesi	Quite bubbly, the beer that really fills you up. Kinda funny taste - starting like acid, boring in between and unobtrusive afterwards. Since half of the restaurants in Zurich are belonging to this brewery, you'll get it everywhere. That doesn't make it better, though
Hürlimann Lager (Hürlimann, Zürich)
Wesi	Like sucking on an iron pipe. Offending taste, bubbly and acid-like. Not good.
Berno	Metallic taste. Bubbly and filling, the typical "burp-and-fart" beer. A beer you can neither enjoy nor get drunk of. Sucks.
Maximus (Egger)
Wesi	Welcome to Hoppyland (tm). Kinda tastes like beer filled into a rubber boat and left exposed to the sun for one day. Flatty stinky sweaty sneaker kinda beer.
Kluge	Smells like beer with aroma hops, tastes like aroma hops dissolved in water. Bitter.
Quinto (Feldschlösschen)
Wesi	Lovely foamy cap, sweet smell. Taste, ugh, sweet, heavy in aroma hops and low in carbonation. Overall: Sweet, weak and boring.
Kluge	The Pointy Haired Boss Beer (tm): "We need a new beer. Aroma hops are cheap". Turbid, smooth, but far too fruity.
Dunkle Perle (Feldschlösschen, Rheinfelden)
Wesi	Not what you'd expect from an amber: neither overly malty nor bitter. Rather refreshing. Looks like coke and is about as easy to drink. Good.
Schlossgold (no alc) (Feldschlösschen, Rheinfelden)
Wesi	Ugh. Funny. Put some sweetener or blackberry siroup into some not too good lager - and there you go. Beers without alcohol are quite OK - presuming they still taste like beer. This one definitely doesn't.
Berno	Fruity-sweet. Interesting in the beginning, but starts to suck after the third sip. Fruit taste and beer taste dont mix.
Feldschlösschen Ice Beer (Feldschlösschen, Rheinfelden)
Wesi	Designer glass, designer bottle, designer beer. In taste close to Calanda Ice, what actually means that it is in taste close to water. A bit more beer than Calanda, though. If you buy one, make sure to read the label on the backside - you'll have a good laugh.
Calanda Lager (Calanda-Haldengut)
Berno	Boring beer. No pleasure while drinking it. Hurts your mouth and - last but not least - comes with a bitchy bitter aftertaste.
Wesi	Metallic taste, like out of can. Kinda tries to dissolve your tongue. Rather flat. Overall: boring.
Hopfenperle (Feldschlösschen, Rheinfelden)
Wesi	Really smooth. Noticeable, but not offending hops. Well balanced. I rather like this one. Americans beware - more taste in one glass than in 20 sixpacks of Bud.
Berno	Good first impression. Balanced bitter taste. A beer to enjoy, but not a beer to drink in a hurry. Zion NP - like aftertaste.
Löwenbräu Lager (Hürlimann, Zürich)
Wesi	Typically Swiss - nothing very special. On tap readily available all over Zurich. Maybe a bit too bubbly and filling, but overall quite OK.
Löwenbräu Red Lion (Hürlimann, Zürich)
Wesi	A bit like watered Löwenbräu Lager. Thin, but still noticeable hops. Tries to imitate Cardinal Draft, but not even gets close. A bit metallic aftertaste, hardly any foam. OK, but not outstanding.
Haldengut Lager Hell (Calanda-Haldengut, Winterthur)
Berno	Kinda like drinking blood. Throw-up beer. Needs a certain time to drink, since you'll have to convince your brain to give the order to swallow. It sucks. Really.
Wesi	Mh, funny. Drink it with your eyes closed - and you'll think that you're drinking an amber. Malty and slightly rusty taste. I can surely think of better ones...
Feldschlösschen Original (Feldschlösschen, Rheinfelden)
Berno	Not good, but cheap. Friday-night-one-night-stand beer. Bitter aftertaste.
Wesi	Thin. Perfectly normal, boring Swiss Lager. Drink it ice cold, it gets nasty when warm.
Falken Lager Hell (Falkenbräu, Schaffhausen)
Wesi	A good lager, easy to drink and refreshing. No boring lager taste - just a good beer.
Falken Cool (Falkenbräu, Schaffhausen)
Wesi	Refreshing beer, served with lime. Looking and tasting like Corona, but without the offending pee smell of the Mexican original. Why drink Corona if there's something better made in Switzerland ?
Naturtrueb Hell (Wädi Brau Huus for Globus)
Wesi	Refreshing taste, funny bottle. Easy to drink, no bitterness at all. Made with biologically grown hops and not filtered. Might be the reason for its nice, slightly turbid color. Good.
Haldenkrone Premium (Haldengut)
Wesi	As usual with Haldengut, a nasty iron-metallic aftertaste. Cheap, both in price and in taste. Acceptable to drink, but the aftertaste - oh s**t! They try to brew a decent beer since 1843 - and keep on trying...
Einsiedler Schafbock (Einsiedler Brauerei)
Wesi	Corn beer, a bit sweet and with a decent fruity aftertaste. No bitterness at all - hops, where are you ? But overall, not bad.
Berno	Good. Exactly like an american light beer.
Müller Bräu (Müller, Baden)
Wesi	Just another boring lager, nothing special. Cool snap-bang bottle, but that's about it. Leave it, you won't miss anything.
Tell Lager (?, for Coop)
Wesi	Perfectly normal lager. A taste you'll find all over the world - just buy the cheapest beer you can get your hands on. Boring.
Goldmandli Bügelspez (Brauerei Baar)
Wesi	Cool bottle, 0.5 liter content. Claims to be brewed like a Pils, but doesn't really taste like one. A bit metallic in its aftertaste. Not bad, but nothing specially rewarding either.
Cardinal Rheingold (Cardinal)
Wesi	Strong beer (6.2p.c. alc), with a taste of its own. Hard to say - some might find it bitter, bubbly and with a lukewarm metallic aftertaste, others liking beer of German taste might find it just fine.
Berno	Not too bitter, but still quite heavy in hops. Kinda fruity, with a very slight metallic aftertaste. Filling. Without its bonus for 6.2p.c. alc, I'd certainly rate it lower.
Hürlimann Gold (Hürlimann)
Berno	The best of the Hürlimann Lagers, but still nothing special. Not bad, but a boring headache beer. Try it - ten minutes after the first sip, your brain starts to explode...
Wesi	Ugh. Just another of the boring lager kind. Piss pond. D'ya know where Port Arthur is ? Well, take a sip of the polluted sea there - and there you go.
Falken Weizen (Falkenbräu, Schaffhausen)
Wesi	Not very rich Weizen with a slightly metallic aftertaste. Still, the distinct, refreshing wheat taste is there. And, as you know, a Weizen has to be really weird for me not to like it...
Falken Prinz (Falkenbräu, Schaffhausen)
Wesi	A premium beer that doesn't taste like it. Rather boring, like some no-name lager. Can't really say what's wrong with it, but I certainly expect more from a premium. This one is just an ordinary beer.
Tödi Ice Beer (Brauerei Adler, Schwanden GL)
Wesi	Nothing really special, a bit metallic in its aftertaste. Funny smell that somehow reminds me of Corona. That's why I tried the second half of the bottle with some lime. Didn't help the taste, though, but made it smell and taste even more like the Mexican brew. Not better than Corona, but at least considerably cheaper.
Maisgold Spezial (Rosengarten, Einsiedeln SZ)
Wesi	Yet another corn beer. Fresh taste, fruity and smooth. Rather close to some beers I had in the States, but (slightly) better hopped than the average American brew. OK.
Cardinal Dunkelbier (Cardinal-Sibra, Fribourg)
Wesi	Amazingly fruity for an amber. Close your eyes, and you'll think you are sipping a non-alcohol lager. Too thin, too sparsely hopped and certainly too sweet for an amber of my taste.
Cardinal Speciale (Cardinal-Sibra, Fribourg)
Wesi	Smooth and balanced, but not very spicy. Nicely blended taste, although not really thrilling. Hmm. Overall, quite OK, but not really something "Speciale".
Einsiedler Lager Hell (Einsiedler Brauerei)
Wesi	Comes with a nice snap-bang bottle cap. The taste itself is that of a typical lager: Quite thin and nothing special. Not overhopped like many other cheap lagers, therefore quite drinkable - but still rather boring.
Wädi Bräu Hanfbier (Wädi Brauhuus)
Wesi	Taste and aftertaste a bit sweet, reminding me of an american red roast. Nice light amber color. This beer contains canabis (without THC, of course), and although I didn't notice any of it in its taste, it certainly has a distinct smell of its own. Overall, I think it's just an average beer. Clever marketing, sure, but I'd say it's not worth the hype.
Weihnachtsbier (Christmas Beer) (Back und Brau)
Wesi	I did not actually sample this one. I don't know of any beer that would be worth the twenty bucks they ask for one liter of their Christmas Brew. It may be good, it may be bad - but it's certainly not worth its price.
Ziegelhof Goldbräu (Brauerei Ziegelhof, Liestal)
Wesi	Nice hoppy taste, but unfortunately not much more. They *do* have nice hops, but it still leaves nuffin but a slightly metallic aftertaste. OK, but just so.
Eichhof Braugold Spezial (Eichhof, Luzern)
Wesi	Hmm. First impression: Light, but rather hoppy, both in taste and in aftertaste. A bit weak for a "Special", but still tastier than an ordinary lager.
Meisterbräu (Calanda )
Wesi	No smell, no real taste. A bit malty, a bit metallic, and overall quite dull.
Kluge	They *do* have malt, sure. But they ain't got nuffin else.
Hubertus Dunkel (Eichhof Luzern)
Kluge	Metallica. Taste not bad, but a very very heavy metallic aftertaste.
Wesi	Smells and tastes a bit fruity, but not too bad. Nice reddish color. Too warm, but still quite drinkable.
Fridolin Kundert Dunkel (Adler Schwanden)
Kluge	A live transscript of Kluge's comments: "Ugh. Shiiit. Shiit. [he coughes]. Shiiiiit. What's that ? [coughing again] Brr! It tastes like them pear pies which I already loathed as a child!"
Wesi	Licorice at its best. Hardly any carbonation. Tastes like them candies I used to chew as a child. Amber ? Naa, it's cough siroup.
Barbara De Luxe (Eichhof Luzern)
Kluge	Metallic, metal, like a can. Aftertaste like after 5 months in the keg.
Wesi	Aw, shit. The first time Eichhof really disappointed me. This one tastes like old, warm lager mixed with some iron splinters would taste. DeLuxe ? I'd say it sucks!
Zwickelbier (Hürlimann)
Wesi	Hmmm. No wonder they intend to close the Hürlimann brewery next year... Boring, not at all what I'd expect from a Zwickelbier.
Kluge	Boring. Tasting just like a million other beers do. Weak, not very hoppy. Where's the taste ?
Anker Original Dark (Cardinal)
Wesi	Fruity, with a prominent hint of licorice in its aftertaste. Acceptable, but just so.
Kluge	Dark and creamy, but with a strange aftertaste.
Panix Perle Special (Adler, Schwanden)
Kluge	Tastes like a beer party. Ya know, after 2 o'clock, everything and everybody just tastes and smells like beer...
Wesi	I'd say it's a plain lager and not a special. The boring metallic aftertaste of ordinary lagers is definitely there.
Weinfelder Spezial (Brauerei Weinfelden)
Kluge	My nose doesn't lie - it really tastes like it smells: like an ale. So here's the recipe: At the end of the evening, mix some leftover ale and some stale lager together. Guess you get the idea...
Wesi	Aah. Like in goode olde England. Too warm, too flat, too boring. Where's the carbonation ? Aw, shit!
Rugenbräu Alpenperle (Brauerei Interlaken)
Kluge	You'll taste right away that they're using corn. But otherwise, the taste is like the color: Almost not noticeable.
Wesi	American taste. Meaning that there isn't any. It ain't got no edges, it ain't got no corners. It's just a plain beer, smooth and a bit fruity. Nothing special, a beer you can drink all night without even noticing that you're drinking.
Einsiedler Dinkel (Rosengarten Einsiedeln)
Wesi	Nice bottle. A distinct aftertaste of whole wheat. Dip a slice of whole wheat toast into a decent ruby amber and then eat it, and you'll have a first-class impression of how this beer tastes. Still, I'd say it's not all that bad.
Kluge	Some people think of beer as nutrition, This one really tastes nutritious, like dark bread. Probably not all that bad if you need a special.
Eichhof Ice Beer (Eichhof Luzern)
Wesi	Refreshing. The proof that it is possible to brew an ice beer which still tastes like beer. Really good, but only drinkable if frozen cold.
Einsiedler Spezial (Rosengarten, Einsiedeln)
Kluge	Tastes as if it had been in the glass for hours. No taste, no bubbles, and awfully warm.
Wesi	Warm. Boring. Sucks.
Rugen Special (Brauerei Interlaken)
Wesi	Fruity. Really. And damn artificial, too. Tastes like a hops garden smells. Just lots of aroma hops, not much more. Somehow like a panache.
Kluge	The Wrigley's Beer (tm): Hoppy, fruity aftertaste - all day long.
Bäregold Spezial (Gurten, Bern)
Wesi	Fruity and hoppy. How to make a special out of a lager ? Just add aroma and bitter hops. It won't get any tastier, but it's taste will become truly "special"...
Kluge	That famous Gurten smell, you know. Hoppy to the hilt, for a Swiss beer, that is.
Rheinperle (Sonnenbräu)
Kluge	This is an attempt for a full-bodied beer. Unfortunately, the outcome tastes metallic and hoppy.
Wesi	Smells like dog pee, but doesn't taste all that bad. I expected a friesisch-herb pilsner. It *is* pilsner, all right, but it is still drinkable.
Sonnenbräu Ice Beer (Sonnenbräu)
Kluge	Aah. Should be called "The Ultra Lager". Really strong taste, without getting obnoxious. A little bit on the metallic side, but still, quite good.
Wesi	Good. Even more taste than the Eichhof Ice. Hmm, on second thought, it's got a bit too much hops for an Ice. Still, too small a bottle for too good a beer.
Säntis Kristall Hell (? (Locher Appenzell))
Kluge	rated it with two "boaks"]
Wesi	Hoppy, both in aroma and in bitter hops. A bit warm, but not too bad. I'd say it is ok if properly chilled.
Wiltsch (Rugenbräu, Interlaken)
Wesi	Hardly any taste, but the aftertaste of an ordinary lager, with a bit of non-alcohol lager taste mixed in. Weak.
Kluge	Rather flat in taste. Probably you could drink it all night, presumed you don't get bored by it. No wonder the figure on the label pours beer onto the floor.
Valaisanne Blonde (Brewery missing)
Wesi	Stinks. And tastes like it smells. Dishwasher soap, window cleaner, whatever: Pick one and you got the taste. Sucks.
Kluge	Smell and taste immediately reminded me of where this beer comes from. Smells like the Balelec, the biggest student party in the french speaking part of Switzerland. Taste isn't really there, but strong aftertaste - just like throwing up at 2 o'clock in the morning.
Sonnenbräu Light (Sonnenbräu)
Kluge	Finally somebody who realized that a light beer doesn't mean flatter taste. It's probably just because of the american light beers that light beers have so bad a name. Not really that much taste, but at least you can tell that they used hops.
Wesi	Well. Not all that much taste, but decently hopped. Tiny bit artificial, but overall, quite OK.
Weizentrumpf (Sternen Brauerei, Frauenfeld)
Kluge	Not bad. Extremely wheaty. Smells almost more like a barn than like a beer.
Wesi	Aah. Really decent. Fresh, with that unique wheat flavor which I like so much. It even tastes slightly limey, without any lime added. I think I just found my favorite swiss Weizen. Good. Damn good.
Calanda Weizen (Calanda-Haldengut)
Kluge	Swiss beer, are they sure ? Tastes like a re-labeled american one: wholly flat in taste.
Wesi	Compared to Weizentrumpf, which I sampled just before this one, it tastes like the joke of wheat beers. It is fresh and wheaty, but weak and thin.
Calanda Dunkel (Calanda-Haldengut)
Kluge	A truly creative beer. Taste and smell of licorice, together with a metallic aftertaste. Whoa shiit, whadda combination...
Wesi	One of the wateriest ambers I ever had. Malty, all right. But awfully thin. Tastes like a burned-out car wreck smells. Brrr.
Warteck Pic (Warteck Basel)
Kluge	Strong in taste, but unfortunately they made their taste with hops and only hops. Too bad. Tastes like some window cleaner. Shudder.
Wesi	Too generously hopped. A bit fruity and rather metallic. No good.
Sonnenbräu Special (Sonnenbräu)
Kluge	Tastes like a keg. Chewing on one, that is. Most obnoxious, metallic aftertaste.
Wesi	A special ? My ass! Boring, flat, metallic - in short, just shitty.
Hanf Lady Weizen (Wädi Brau Huus)
Berno	Nice chemical-orange color. Sweet taste, like half beer and half fruit juice. Don't like it.
Wesi	Sweet and awfully fruity. The wheat taste is there, all right, but it comes together with a hint of orange and apple juice which I don't like at all. Hmm. Amazing idea to substitute hemp flowers for the hops, but the result is not really rewarding...
Boxer Old Lager (Brasserie Du Boxer, Romanel)
Wesi	Mh. A bit thin, but amazingly tasty, not at all like an ordinary lager. Fresh, just the right amount of hops in the aftertaste. Rather like a tasty ice beer than like a lager. Make sure to drink it iced cold - as every beer, it gets nasty when warm. Overall: quite good.
Baarer Maisbier (Brauerei Baar)
Wesi	Sweet, metallic, cheap. Hardly any aftertaste, the little there is is suckingly sticky and sweet. Any hops in there?
Karbacher Maisperle (Brauerei Karbach, Schönenwerd)
Kluge	Has a very distinct taste, just like... Hmm. From somewhere, you'll get a hint of corn. But I can't really tell wether they used popcorn or fresh corn. Or even corn flakes, for that matter.
Wesi	Nice snap-bang bottle cap. Taste... Hmm. Kinda funny mixture of aroma hops and corn, making it fruity and a bit flat in the beginning; an impression that gets augmented by its cheap, lager-like aftertaste. Not my favorite.
Karbacher Reisperle (Brauerei Karbach, Schönenwerd)
Kluge	Not much of anything, very strange aftertaste. Play Dick Tracy for yourself...
Wesi	Same as their Maisperle, but the rice adds a carton-like note to the aftertaste. Imagine sucking on a tissue paper soaked with lager. Boring.
Sonnenbräu Zwickelgold (Sonnenbräu Rebstein)
Dani	Watery. Aehm. Slightly bitter, prickly finish, a bit furred on the tongue.
Wesi	Not bad. Nicely carbonated, tasty, but with an amazingly flat finish. Easy to drink, but kinda boring.
Löwengarten Millenium (Brewery missing)
Kluge	Perfectly normal lager. Hoppy, with a hint of metal.
Wesi	Hoppy, almost stinky smell, but then the typical, nondescript lager taste. Nuffin special, just boring.
Cardinal Millenium (Cardinal)
Wesi	Yack. Ain't no beer. Just cheap champagne, I'd say. Metallic, weak, watery, kinda like an american light beer out of can. Sucks.
Kluge	The smell of its ingredients (beer, wine, champagne) just reminded me to the end of an evening with all that: puke.
Albani Dunkel (Brewery missing)
Kluge	Interesting smell, like glue or solvent, but fortunately only very faint. Unfortunately, the adjective "faint" also applies to the taste. Highly carbonated.
Wesi	Hm. Funny smell of fresh paint. Taste, well, nothing that takes your socks off, just lotta carbontation.
Albani Hell (Brewery missing)
Kluge	Faint smell of glue or one of its components. Starts quite refreshingly with lots of carbonation and a mild, hoppy taste. But that's all you'll ever get. A teaser.
Wesi	Weird smell paired with the typically sweet over-aroma-hopped Haldengut taste. Sucks.
Calanda Zwickelbräu (Calanda (Heineken), Chur)
Wesi	Yeh. I admit. I'm a bit prejudiced as far as Calanda is concerned. But, hmm. first of all, this brew's got a funny smell. Couldn't quite place it until I took the first sip, but then my tastebuds triggered immediately: Yuck, cheap champagne! Sorry, this ain't beer.
Eichhof Klosterbräu Amber (Eichhof, Luzern)
Wesi	Hmm. Kinda weird, faintly reminding me of some obscure british top-fermented amber I once had in Oxford. I'm not really fond of flowery sweet-n-sour beer.
Müller Urweizen (Müller, Baden)
Wesi	Fresh and crisp, if a bit very lagerish in its finish. Don't expect a Weizen (it's not), but rather a pretty decent unfiltered lager.
Haldengut Zwickelbier (Calanda-Haldengut, Winterthur)
Wesi	Just my luck. I couldn't stand Haldengut brews for years, and now that they finally manage to brew something worth to be called a beer, they plan on closing the brewery... This Zwickelbeer is rather fruity, both in smell and in taste, but quite pleasantly so (not the offending strawberry-jelly type of fruityness, more the fresh and tangy taste of cider). The lingering aftertaste is also quite cider-like, but with a decent note of hops. Good.
Wädenswiler Ur-Weizen (Wädi Brau-Huus, Wädenswil)
Wesi	Distinct weizen taste, but rather tangy. Not very heavy on the yeast side - or rather: the yeast is there, but almost extinguished by the sour and acidy start. Finish (aftertaste) is ok.
Einsiedler Spezial Dunkel (Rosengarten, Einsiedeln)
Wesi	As there ain't that many decent dark beers available in Switzerland, each is certainly worth a try. This one is quite drinkable, but - for my taste - a bit shy and weak. Still, not bad.
Appenzeller Holzfass Bier (Locher)
Wesi	Surprisingly complex taste, fresh and lively up front, but with an amazingly lingering caramel note in the aftertaste. And, yes, there's definitely a touch of cask conditioning in there, too. Makes the overall drinking experience, and especially the aftertaste, come pretty close to a mild whiskey. I'm not particularly fond of whiskey, nor am I of beers with a caramelly aftertaste. But, alas, it's a bold innovation and definitely a new taste on the (otherwise overwhelmingly lagerish) swiss beer market. Thus, the final rating turned out slightly higher than my personal estimation of this brew.

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