Zipfer Stefani Bock

Zipfer is the defining Austrian megaswill. I can remember my first encounter with the stuff in 2002. Back then I was 'beer' ignorant and brewed kit and kilo beers because it made for cheap drinking! It was on a Contiki tour and I was staying in the Austrian Tirol and I nearly got in a fight with a dick head from Melbourne called Logan because I had cut his grass. The girl was certainly not worth fighting over!

Anyway, fast forward 7 years and now I am a creature of sophistication and beer class... well one can hope.

Anyhow my wife picked up a bottle of Zipfer Stefani Bock (7.1% abv) from a Spar on Christmas day. It tasted remarkably similar to a strong Polish lager. Not true to style and basically just a supercharged tramp juice. I still drank it though. It was a Christmas present after all and it's the thought that counts!

Surprisingly it is apparently brewed in accordance to Reinheitsgebot, well it says so here!