Schloss Eggenberg Samichlaus Bier Helles

Brewed by Brauerei Schloss Eggenberg
Style: Doppelbock
Vorchdorf, Austria

Bottle. Moderate malt notes of cereal and caramel, light hops and yeast notes of perfume, leather and soap, with hints of sherry, alcohol and mixed dried fruit. Head is fizzy, white with no lacing and is fully diminishing. Color is sparkling clear amber/orange. Flavor starts moderately to heavily sweet and lightly acidic, then finishes moderately sweet and lightly acidic and bitter. Palate is medium to full, between creamy and syrupy, has a carbonation that is soft verging on lively and has a moderately alcoholic finish. This is one deceptively powerful beer. Very tasty, it reminded me of 120 min in a lot of ways. Definitely a sipping beer, and I’m not sure about it’s style classification by RB.

stefange below sums up my thoughts.....I just could not take it, however my wife (the winedrinker) loved it. She said it was like a port wine with a honey flavor......I said something else......the rating is all mine

An almost copper pour with very light head and lace. Aroma is caramel and sweet fruit. Flavor is rich sweet malt with a nice a hint of abv. Medium bodied and smooth. pretty damn nice

Bottle: Deep red clear colour, with a thin yellow head. Aroma is malty, caramelly , and som alcy nose in the end. Flavor is weery malty and caramelly, nice malty/caramelly mouth feeling, not so much alcy mouth feeling that Ive expeckted with this high alc level! Medium to full boddy. Medium caramelly/vanilla finish. A plesent beer that will be better with ageing(?)1 year?

2007 Bottling bought from the Party Source in Newport, KY. I am very surprised by the lower ratings, as I thoroughly enjoyed this monster of a beer. It more than held its own with my Arturo Fuentes Cuban Corona cigar. This beer had an aroma of a Red Charms Lolipop and quite an impressive thick appearance that created legs on the side of my glass. A huge beer, no head to speak of, big, fruity, sweet with flavors of life savors and definitely finishes hot. As is warmed, the complexities became more pronounced and it became smoother. An incredible creation, can only imagine how this beer would age. Intense, very intense.

2007 Bottle. Pours a clear medium amber with a 1 finger, creamy, off white head that fades to a think skim pretty quickly, it leaves no lacing but the beer itself looks a bit like (and coats the glass like) and amber whiskey, which is interesting. Aroma is apple, rum, caramel, grainy malt, a decent amount of toast, water chestnut, lager yeast, aroma is very boozy. Flavor is sweet grain, caramel, toasted grain, overripe apple, nutty and buttery toffee, honey, almond, some spicy and spicy, planty hops. Finish is dark fruit, burnt sugar, fruit cake and spicy hops. Palate is thick, slick and sticky on the lips with mild carbonation. Overall this stuff is o.k. (certainly not worth the $6 price tag here, though, other than the fact that it is really high abv, and would probably make a wonderful dessert/winter warmer beer) the regular Samichlaus is much, much better.

Bottle. Pours an amber body with a thin lacing. Alcoholic fruit with vinous notes and malty fruity body more specific apple peach y notes. Big etoh warming but not overbearing. Good brew for the high abv.

0.33 l bottle at Timo A’s tasting. Copper color with small head. Sweet sherry aroma with nuts and apple. Sweet thick flavor with toffee, apple, raisins and nuts. Deep warming character with some alcohol sharpness also. Nice dessert.