Appenzell, Switzerland: The Swiss town of beer-drinking cows

By Catherine Marshall
Updated May 30 2016 - 6:13pm, first published May 28 2016 - 12:15am
A happy cow is brushed at Sepp Dahler's farm. Photo: Catherine Marshall
A happy cow is brushed at Sepp Dahler's farm. Photo: Catherine Marshall
Farmhouse. Photo: Catherine Marshall
Farmhouse. Photo: Catherine Marshall
Sepp Dahler. Photo: Catherine Marshall
Sepp Dahler. Photo: Catherine Marshall
Cheese straight from the farm. Photo: Catherine Marshall
Cheese straight from the farm. Photo: Catherine Marshall
Picture perfect farmland. Photo: Catherine Marshall
Picture perfect farmland. Photo: Catherine Marshall

The cows are drinking beer, the beer is being brewed from the spring water that surges through the Alpstein massif, the herb-brined cheeses are ripening in the cellars and the chickens are running wild and free on the side of a lurid green mountain in the Swiss canton of Appenzell.

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