Solothurner “Oufi” Rotbier.

Solothurner “Oufi” Rotbier

Brewed by Öufi Brauerei
Style: Rotbier
Solothurn, Switzerland

A family run brewery from the small picturesque town of Solothurn in the north-west of Switzerland by the banks of the Aare and on the foot of the Weissenstein Jura mountains.

Öufi brewery, named after the “Solothurner city number 11”, was founded on the 11th of November, in 2000 by Alex Künzle, who had had enough of his job as a mineral water sales manager and decided to concentrate on his passion, brewing beer, setting up the Öufi brewery.

The number 11 is everywhere in Solothurn. There are 11 fountains, chapels, churches and a clock with a face showing only 11 hours. No wonder the local brewery also bears the evocative name “Öufi”. But why 11? Well Solothurn’s history is closely tied to the ‘holy’ number 11. and all of the towns residents, both young and old, regard the number 11 as magical or even sacred.

The Öufi brewers are a real beer family. Alex Künzle’s sons, Florian and Moritz, are also, like their father, involved in the brewing process while mother Barbara takes care of all the administration with daughter Sophie; and graphic designer Louise, the youngest of the Künzle children, designs the labels for the Öufi beers.

The family must be doing something right as they offload about 40 beers a year, from Helles, Pilsners, Rotbiers, Weizen, to a large variety of season beers, using local water from Solothurn and the best natural ingredients at hand.

At their brewery they offer guided tours, beer tastings and even a two day course in brewing. if that is too much for you, you can always relax in their own onsite pub and restaurant!

Review: 33cl bottle of Solothurner “Ouf”Rotbier: 5% vol.

On the bottle it says this is a “bio” beer, whatever that means? I think organically friendly?

On pour getting a very nice and big frothy head, lot of carbonation making the beer lively. Very golden coloured amber looking beer.

Once it all settles down, it all looks very appetizing. Nice colour and good looking.

Smell is one of pure lager on the nose

Also getting a bit of wheat

Not a bad aroma, lagery, but is OK

Found the taste to be pretty bland, not getting a whole lot on the old tastebuds at all.

Tastes of toffee detected at times.and I am getting the hops, and I guess you can feel that it is an organic beer, but overall this is a pretty poor effort at a lager me thinks.