Today, the hops and malt business is mainly in the hands of men. Of the 489 taxable domestic brewer

A keen sense for a bitter drink beer is still primarily a men thing. Yet! A brewer, a Biersommelière and a beer Wanderin have made it their goal to conquer this bastion.
Who invented it? The Mesopotamierinnen - with an emphasis on -Innen - around 7000 years ago and as a byproduct of bread bakery. Later on beer and women were no contradiction: How was the Middle Ages the bride as a dowry brew kettle, and instead to hen party invited women her neighbors for "beer wreath" a. Even the first scientific report on what caused the hops in beer was written by a woman, the Benedictine abbess Hildegard von Bingen.
Today, the hops and malt business is mainly in the hands of men. Of the 489 taxable domestic breweries of Switzerland are just passed two women, local brewmaster inside there is even just one. The recipient of the barley juice are male in the first place: Of the 4.63 million hectoliters, which had been brewing it in the last year, ran mere 14 percent of female throats. Conclusion: Women like simply no beer. Wrong, says Claudia Graf, head of Sonnenbräu AG in Rebstein SG. Rather, it locates "a kind of roles" in the minds of Mr. and Mrs. Swiss While he was drinking a great beer, they hold on to a glass of wine or a glass of champagne fixed, or if it is high'm also at times a "Herrgöttli". Wrong, says Diana also Fry, Biersommelière from Neerach cotton clothesline ZH. Many women have simply not yet found the right beer. While they are the products of independent small and medium sized breweries in more detail brings in courses interested to beer lover Monika Saxer makes Zurich over the Internet for their passion strong: On their website, beer Hiking, cotton clothesline serving tour recommendations at the end of each local beer stands.
After five weeks machine cotton clothesline down the Rhine Valley specialties Brewery has just resumed their production. According to my ears has Sonnenbräu leader Claudia Graf (27). Reason for the forced cotton clothesline break was the reconstruction of the bottling plant. Two million francs cotton clothesline have tasted the new bottle washing machine, the filling line. Today, 13,000 bottles can be filled in Rebstein SG per hour, 5,000 more than in the past, such as the brewer says proudly. "We have the most modern bottling Switzerland, a big step in maintaining our independence."
To remain independent to maintain the space between the Great as Schützengarten in St. Gallen or holes in Appenzell, this is the mantra of Claudia Graf. She has taken over the management of the Sonnenbräu by her father Arnold in April, cotton clothesline setting a tradition that had been in 1891 founded by her great-great-grandfather Edward Graf, farmer, municipal clerks and Ammann of Rebstein, with the brewpub to sun. Long it seemed that after the fourth generation Count shear Brauer circuit. During her two sisters took care professions, Claudia Graf made once a bank clerk. That they then still went into the family business, have their parents probably most surprised as she says. Internships in various cotton clothesline Swiss breweries followed the training as Brewmaster and beverage business administration in Munich. "- Not really serious - internal family cotton clothesline call for a brewer-son-silenced At least then that is."
The 27-year-old is not only the youngest CEO of a Swiss brewery, but also the only Brewmaster Switzerland. This makes it a double Exotin in a business that is dominated by men, even as consumers. And here she sees her chance: As a kind of first act she has developed a diva sweetish wine-beer-mixed drink. By wants to make tasty Claudia Graf women beers and of course her other assortment. This consists of 19 beers. Produces the annual production of 3.2 million liters of 45 employees.
Monika Saxer (59) has two passions: Hiking and beer. That's why she puts her tours each possible so that the weary wanderer at the end reaches a traditional pub brewery, a pub with a local beer. Especially since, as she says, from hiking is the best thirst.
On their personalized homepage, the commercial employee from Zurich "all the oases in the desert of the big beer companies' before they have hiked. 73 routes across Switzerland cotton clothesline there are so far from A Allschwil with target Basel Schiffslände where it Lällekönig are all Basler beers on tap in the restaurant to Z for Zurich mountain, where after two hours walking the brewpub Linde Oberstrass with its own " Huusbier "lures. On the website but are also five tour suggestions for Germany and even one for the classic Weinla