Schloss Eggenberg MacQueens Nessie (7.3%)

Formerly brewed at Brauerei Schloss Eggenberg
Style: Smoked
Vorchdorf, Austria

Can’t see how this is classified as a smoked ale. Nothing smokey about this beer in any way. Semi-sweet nose with some metallic notes. Flavor has more of the sweet flavor, some light fruit notes and a touch of alcohol. If there was any hint of peated malt, it’s long gone.

pours golde, nice white head, medium malt aroma and some hop, no spices, no fruit, flav is moderate caramel and hop, mild fruit as weel. quite pleasant aftertaste, medium bodied,

33 cL bottle. Pours clear and golden orange with creamy white head. Medium dry malt aroma. Flavour is mild hoppy to a malt flavour with light whiskey notes and mild fruit. Mild malt driven flavour into the finish.

333 ml. bottle. Very sweet malt aroma. Light copper color with no head at all. Medium body with very mild, creamy carbonation. Flavor is lightly bitter, lightly sweet, slightly smoky. Reminiscent of Adelscot, but likely lighter. A little heat is detectable in the finish, which is lightly sweet. Ok, but not to die for.

Brown bottle, 330 ml, best before 07.2007, via Importations Privées Bièropholie, savoured on April 24 2008; eye: golden with a caramel hue, clear, slight effervescence, white head that falls rapidly, a bit of lacing; nose: grainy malt, liqueur-like caramel, bread; mouth: half-liqueur-like, grainy malt, alcohol, a bit of pepper, caramel, light hops, finale in grainy malt with a bit of alcohol, grainy texture, lightly bitter and sweet, not much carbonation; overall: correct FRANÇAIS Bouteille brune, 330 ml, meilleure avant 07.2007, via Importations Privées Bièropholie, savourée le 24 avril 2008; œil : dorée avec une teinte caramel, claire, très légère effervescence, mousse blanche qui tombe rapidement, un peu de dentelle; nez : malt granuleux, caramel liquoreux, pain; bouche : semi-liquoreux, malt granuleux, alcool, un peu de poivre, caramel, léger houblon, finale en malt granuleux avec une pointe d’alcool, texture granuleuse, légèrement amère et sucrée, corps moyen, peu carbonatée; en résumé : correct

Bottle-Deep copper with a small white head. Aromas are smokey malts and dark fruits with toffee and dark rye. This is a sweet smoked beer. Its got plenty of smokey caramel flavours with a rye and spice component. Finishes with the sweet aftertaste of clover and honey. I’d say a bit too sweet.

11.2 oz bottle. Poured a clear orange/straw with almost no head. Rich honey/pale malt aroma with a touch of hops and perhaps some smoke. Rich malt flavor supported with spicey noble hops, a bit of peat/smoke, and some alchohol warming. Very full creamy mouthfeel with moderate carbonation.Finishes with a sticky malt sweetness and a light lingering hop bitterness. Very very tasty!

33 cl. Small, but creamy and lasting head above the orange-copper, mostly clear body. Spicy toffee and earthy corn aroma. Initial taste is spicy toffee, turns to a grilled corn and finally to an earthy smoked, lightly soured orange honey. The light bittering hops provide just enough mint-flavored balance at the end, combined with the faint touch of alcohol that shows up about halfway through the glass. Medium body is creamy, has a small tingle and finishes dry. Some tightwire-walking with some delicate flavors here; this one seems like a hybrid lager-ale in some ways. Don’t know if that’s what they were going for, but it really seems like a nice cross between a Vienna lager and a Scotch Ale.