Schloss Eggenberg Samichlaus Bier Helles

Bottle. Clear golden colour with a medium white head. Rich malty aroma and taste with notes of fruits and alcohol. Thick palate. Alcoholic finish.

<i>Bottled. </i> Thick clear amber, no head. Sweaty meaty malt aroma. Thick and syrupy with vast and deep malt character. Sweet and chewy, soft and pleasant, just loads of malt. Warming and intense with low hop rate and bitterness.

Bad ass brew. Got it on tap at the HopCat. Thick, amber pour. Sweet aroma of spice, yeast, caramel. Taste is sweet, christmasy, tasty. Lots of caramel, honey, brown sugar. Alcohol is apparent, and its a very slow sipper. Still, really cool.

Pours a medium to dark gold color with virtually no head and no visible lacing. Aroma of very light citrus hops, yeast, and a very faint hint of licorice. And when I swirled the beer, I swear I caught light aromas of tomato sauce. Flavor is slightly medicinal, with the flavor of hops lightly evident, sweetness, and a feeling of stickiness in the finish.

Bottle at Xmas Eve Eve Eve. Pours brassy color with small offwhite head. The aroma is alcohol and very sweet malt. The flavor is much the same, with a strong, almost overwhelming, honeyish sweetness.

Merry Christmas! And look, a present even before Santa got here - a one year aged Samichlaus Helles! A hale, Caribbean beach clear, amber gold body, a thin light snow of a head, and a scent of sugars - honey, brown sugar, caramel, corn syrup and apple juice. All of these sweets amplified tenfold in the taste, emboldened by a goodly volume of alcohol that makes it all go down with an ear-warming, impermeable to the outside vortex of cold type of smile. Not as good as the original, but the style is familiar. Merry Christmas everyone!

tronraner’s Xmas Eve Eve Eve Tasting. Sample from a bottle thanks to Suttree. Pale orange-golden color with a thin white head and syrupy high alcohol. Big alcohol aroma and toasty malts. Taste of light grainy malts, some fruit and caramel and a big malty sweet and syrupy finish with an alcohol warming.

pours a clear copper-orange with a small white head that goes away quickly, leaving some lacing. smell is fruity, malt, alcohol, and few hops. taste is thick, sweat fruit, caramel, malt, and warming.