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The Ballybrack Obriens has LOADS of new beers in stock.

Some crazy looking German beers that say "Hirschbrau" on them from "Privatbrauerei Hoss" in Sonthofen, Germany; one is a doppelbock and I don't even know what the other two are. I bought one that appears to say "Holzar-Bier" and has a picture of a crazy German lumberjack in a snow-covered forest chopping down trees. It appears to be a dunkel but doesn't taste like any dunkel I've had before; very complex I'm going to try and translate what the bottle says.

They've got some Belgian beers in now, Brooklyn brown ale, a ton of stuff I can't remember. They have about 10 beers with "new" under them at the moment.


Adam

"Holzar-bier" via literal translation means "wood types"
The bottom of the label says "nach urväterart" which appears to mean "after ancestors' art"...

The back says: "an amber beer tradition that our ancestors had drank very much."


Is this possibly an attempt to make a traditional old Marzen? I have no idea at this point; this thing is a huge mystery. The brewery's website is almost all images only available via mouse-over which makes it very difficult to translate. -Translated slowly and painfully; it says little. It appears to be a historical German beer but no additional information is given.

Beeradvocate calls it a dunkel which makes me automatically think it's probably not a dunkel. Lol!

The US importer calls it a "special amber" and the label continues to repeatedly talk about it being a traditional beer that your ancestors would've drank so I'm sticking with my take that it could be a close relative of an actual traditional "marzen"/"oktoberfest" (although the picture of a guy chopping down trees in winter probably means I'm wrong).

It's pretty good whatever you call it. Crazy German Lumberjack with an awesome moustache -your beer isn't too bad!

Adam

The Germans are calling the Holzar a Doppel Bock on the hobbeybrauer.de, if that's any help.

"EoinMag":3o92n434 wrote: The Germans are calling the Holzar a Doppel Bock on the hobbeybrauer.de, if that's any help.[/quote:3o92n434]

Not help at all. The same brewery makes a doppel bock and this most certainly isn't one by any normal definition; even the brewery doesn't mention the word bock or doppelbock. (It's 5.1% or 5.2% so not even in regular bock territory.)


Adam

"Biertourist":20hhs53u wrote:

"EoinMag":20hhs53u wrote: The Germans are calling the Holzar a Doppel Bock on the hobbeybrauer.de, if that's any help.[/quote:20hhs53u]

Not help at all. The same brewery makes a doppel bock and this most certainly isn't one by any normal definition; even the brewery doesn't mention the word bock or doppelbock. (It's 5.1% or 5.2% so not even in regular bock territory.)


Adam[/quote:20hhs53u]

Actually reading back on it again the doppelhirsch is the bock. The Holzar is just a hirschbraeu and appears to have no style external to the breweries own.....

I bought one of that ''Holzar crazy lumberjack'' on Killiney's Shopping Center's Europars. Curious lager, indeed. By the way, they have a nice selection there too. Three Brew Dogs, loads of Germans, some Fullers, Newcastle Brown Ale. And it only 5 min walking from where I am living <!-- s8) --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_cool.gif" alt="" title="Cool" /><!-- s8) -->