OK, I admit it, I goofed up. How the heck did I think I was done with the Austria, Czech and Swiss beer project? I just found 4 more beers l haven't drank yet! A good problem to have!
You have to look long and hard for Swiss beers around here. Today I’m drinking one of them, Rugenbräu and their Naturtrübes Zwickel Bier. Basically this means a relatively fresh, unfiltered, and unpasteurized beer. Their instructions on the bottle are to invert it first, so if cloudy is what you want, then cloudy is what you get!
Zwickel gets some of its’ newish and un-aged flavor by that unfiltered yeast in suspension - part of the style, like many wheat beers for example. Tastes OK, I tend to like the lagered Pilsners and Helles beers better - while good, this tastes a bit like recently brewed beer which hasn’t mellowed out from the lagering process. Which is usually what Zwickels are. If you dig it, you’ll dig it!
4.8% ABV, Rugenbräu has been knocking it out since 1866. The bottle says “One Way Glass”. I guess that means it is to be recycled… I’d like to think it means UV-blocking! Nein! Prost….!