Brauhaus Gusswerk

Microbrewery in Hof bei Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria 🇦🇹

Established in 2007

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Römerstraße 3 Elsenwang, Hof bei Salzburg, 5322, Austria
Description
The Brauhaus Gusswerk is an innovative symbiosis of a beer bar and a brewery, a place for enjoyment, communication and cosiness. The initiator of this unique project is Salzburg's Reinhold Barta, passionate brewer. After more than ten years of organic brewing experience he realized his organic brewery in Salzburg's “Gusswerk” in 2007. Reinhold Barta's goal is to make sustainable and biodynamic beer in Austria socially acceptable. When he saw the plans of the "Gusswerk", he immediately knew: "This is where my brewery belongs." The beer should be drawn from the strength of its origin, of course with purely organic ingredients and old, natural manufacturing processes that reflect the circle of nature.

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7.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5

Best before 06/25, drinking this beer yesterday with my wife, bottle coming from Frastanz, Rampenverkauf, 08/25 light and refreshing beer, really smooth and bready, light and a bit fruity, German bitterness, interesting.

Tried from Bottle from Frastanzer Rampenverkauf (Brauerei Frastanz) on 26 Nov 2025 at 14:33

gave a cheers!

7.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5

I have bought this beer at Frastanz, in august 2024. Best before 11/24, sharing this bottle with Juan-Carlos, yesterday, at Epalinges. A classical keller/helles, really smooth, yeasty, malty, a bit fruity and watery with a classical bitterness.

Tried from Bottle on 15 Nov 2025 at 12:20

gave a cheers!

7.3
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Im Glas erstrahlt sattes und weitestgehend klares Kupferrot. Die rötlich-braunstichige, feinporige Schaumkrone wirkt wässerig-flaumig und hält mäßig gut. In der Nase versammeln sich sehr präsente Malznoten von Getreide, Teig, Biscuit, Nuss und Karamell. Im Hintergrund schwingen leicht würzige und kräuterige Noten mit. Der Antrunk kommt sehr fein rezent, süßlich, karamellig, röstig, likörig und zart würzig bis leicht herb. Im Mund präsentiert sich ein sehr voller, kräftiger Körper mit sehr feiner Rezenz, öliger bis cremiger Textur, leichter Alkoholwärme und leichter Süße. Auf Zunge und Gaumen breitet sich eine vielfältige Malzigkeit mit Noten von dunklem Karamell, leichter Röstigkeit, Likör und Rumfrüchten aus. Dazu gesellt sich eine sehr angenehme Würze, eine leichte Kräuterigkeit, sowie eine zarte Herbe, die für die nötige Ausgewogenheit und Harmonie sorgen. Trotz der 9 % Alkohol wirkt dieses Bier in keiner Phase scharf oder gar spritig, sondern zeigt sich kräftig, likörig und bringt eine sehr angenehme Wärme mit. Ein perfektes Leckerli für die kühlere Jahreszeit! Im Nachtrunk klingen die kräftigen Malzaromen sehr sehr langsam aus und man kann die Augen schließen, um diesen langen Abgang zu genießen.

Tried from Bottle on 31 Oct 2025 at 23:43


7
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7

Bottle 33 cl. Pours a thick, black with a smallish, rough light brown head. Leaves curtain in the glass. Sweet roast aroma with chocolate, vanilla and molasses. Rich, sweet body with more of the above, perhaps a bit more roasty now. But smooth and very drinkable with a warming finish. 091025

Tried from Bottle on 09 Oct 2025 at 14:50


7
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7

33cl bottle from Denns BioMarkt in K2 Shopping Kittsee. Head is big, tan, good retention. Colour is amber to coppery, semi-opaque. Aroma is orange, citrus, roasted onion effect, bit caramel, spicy touch. Taste is medium malty base, grapefruit, caramel, tropical fruits, pine resin, medium carbonation, quite simple yet nice for the style, enjoyed.

Tried from Bottle on 30 Aug 2025 at 18:03


7
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7

33cl bottle from Denns BioMarkt in K2 Shopping Kittsee. Head is medium, tanned, good retention. Colour is black, opaque. Aroma is roasted tones with some caramel and dark berries. Taste is medium malty base, roasted tones, dark berries, dried plums, dark bread, nice balanced harmonic bitterness, medium carbonation, not bad, enjoyed.

Tried from Bottle on 30 Aug 2025 at 18:01


7.3
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5

Very good, dense yellow head, stable, over finely carbonated clear amber beer. Exotic fruit, passion fruit, citrus(peel), lychee, rosewater, caramel, fine green leaves. Herbs as parsley, cilandro, on top of caramelly fruitesters; with grape, grapefruit, lychee, bitter melon. Also some earthy notes, peppery. Hopoil galore, and a quite bitter edge overlying sugars. Very (hopoil)slick, oily, viscous. Medium bodied, creamy by the impossibly stable head - some iron? The AAA moniker is somewhat cheap, but the quality certainly is A+. Purchased at the brewpub

Tried from Bottle on 14 Aug 2025 at 18:13


6.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

0,1l Taster from bottle at Braukunstmarkt, Hallein. Copper hazy color, small white head. smells spices, caramel, earthy, tobacco. Nice smell. Medium body soft carbonation. tastes earthy, herbal, spices, tobacco, herbal. finishes lightly bitter with notes of earthy, light berry notes and tobacco. Pretty nice one overall

8, 6.5, 7, 6, 7

Tried from Bottle on 09 Aug 2025 at 14:46


6.8
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

0,1l Taster from bottle at Braukunstmarkt, Hallein. Amber clear color, small white head. smells caramel, spices, earthy, tobacco. Medium body, light carbonation. tastes caramel, earthy, spices, chlorophyll. finishes lightly bitter with notes of caramel, earthy and spices. Pretty nice one

7, 6.5, 7, 6, 7

Tried from Bottle on 08 Aug 2025 at 14:48


6.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

"Urban-Keller" nowhere on the label Very good, dense, yellowish head, very regular over hazy foxy amber beer, some lace. Sweet malts, somewhat weyish, faintly leaves, laurel. Again leafy, but with some dry bitterness, balanced by both sourish CO² and some (sweeter) malts. Fresh herbs, very young hazelnuts. Light body, quite spritzy. Nice, but I miss something as Maillard or caramelisation from the stones. Purchased at the brewpub in Elsenwang.

Tried from Bottle on 07 Aug 2025 at 18:54