Brauerei Hofstetten Hofstettner Heller Bock Saphir

At Discount Wines & Liquors in Booon, NJ, I picked up a bottle of Brauerei Hofstetten Hofstettner Heller Bock Saphir. The beer pours a golden color that looks solid with some floatables and a light bubbly white head. The aroma consists of lemon, grass, wheat, and hay. The taste is light and refreshing with some lemon on the front end. A hint of pepper and hay comes out on the finish with some earthiness about it. The alcohol content is 7.4% ABV. This beer had a meringue mouth feel with a good overall spiciness about it, focusing heavily on the lemon. It was refreshing and definitely a beer I'd come back to in the future.

Brauerei Hofstetten Seit 1229 Barleywine Ale

I picked up a bottle of Brauerei Hofstetten Seit 1229 Barleywine Ale from Discount Wines and Liquors in Boonton, NJ. The beer pours a raisin color with a bubbly cream colored head. The aroma consists of raisin, oak, caramel, and malts. The taste is dry with oak and a sweet raisin and fig base. Caramel comes out as well before oak appears again and dries out the finish with some peppery spice to it as well. The alcohol content is 8.6% ABV. This was an interesting brew with quite a different flavor than I was expecting. The oak flavor really dried out the beer, but thankfully it had enough of a sweet base to balance it out.