Schloss Eggenberg Samichlaus Bier

Brewed by Brauerei Schloss Eggenberg
Style: Doppelbock
Vorchdorf, Austria

Very warm beer.Truly rare,sweet,alcoholic with ahint of brandy. For a warm and comfortable afterdinner. A great beer!

Bottle, 2006. Moderate malt and hop aromas of cookie, roasted, nutty, caramel, and perfume with no noticable yeast smell. Background notes of rasin and date, butterscotch, vanilla and lots of alcohol. Head is small, creamy with only fair lacing but the body is definitely leggy. It diminishes almost completely and the color is clear copper. Flavor starts moderately sweet and lightly acidic, then finishes moderately sweet, lightly bitter and a touch sour. Palate is medium to full, syrupy and has an almost flat carbonation. It finishes heavily alcoholic. An extreme Doppelbock. You definitely need to take your time with it...and should let warm a bit too.

330ml Bottle from the SAQ as part of a trade for a server cabinet The aroma was cloyingly SWEET and smoky with a touch of honey and molasses Pours a nice coppery brown with no head or lacing to speak of This beer is very very sweet and syrupy the high ABV is well masked but this was just not a very enjoyable beer for me I could not even finish it

Caraca!!! Cerveja bem forte, de coloração avermelhada e espuma bege de média formação e curta duração. Aroma e sabor complexos, muito agradáveis, sugerindo malte tostado, chocolate e talvez amêndoa ou avelã. O álcool é perceptível (já esperava por isso, afinal são 14%). Cada gole é uma paulada... Desce queimando! Realmente, parece licor (lembro que ela é uma "Malt Liquor"). Final adocicado e seco. Tirando o excessivo teor alcoólico, a cerveja é muito boa. Seria fantástica se o fabricante tivesse conseguido a proeza de equilibrar melhor o álcool no conjunto, o que não deve ser nada fácil. De qualquer forma, vale experimentá-la pela singularidade.

Pours a transparent copper color with a small white head. Aroma is quite sweet, with plum, raisin, fig, and malt prominent, along with some vinuous undertones and hints of alcohol. Flavor is very sweet, almost to a negative extent, but not quite. Great syrupy flavors of dark fruit and sugar. Palate is thick at first but the finish is a bit watery. The sweetness hides the 14% ABV, but it’s still definitely present on the tongue. Really nice beer.

330ml Bottle (Bottled 2007): Strange aroma of malts, dark ripe fruits, grapes, slight alcohol, light caramel, slight sherry, and slight wood. Poured copper/light brown/slight amber in color with a small, fizzy, tan head that disappeared quickly. Clear. Sparkling. Flavor is light to medium sweet. Tastes of malts, raisins, dark ripe fruits, alcohol, brown sugar, and caramel. Light to medium body. Tingly, thinish texture. Average carbonation. Sweet, malty, 14%ABV is very well hidden.

Very warm, smooth, sweet malty beer. Hint of dark fruit and a bit of dryness at the end. Easy to enjoy, extraordinary for the alcohol content. Many dobblebock I prefer more, but as an oddity, this might be worth trying again sometime.

What a warm beer! In my unfortunately imaginated country of Québec, still a province though now an exteriorly recognized nation, you can find this amazing beer in many SAQ stores, at 5 $ a bottle. I’ve had 05, 06 and 07 brews in the past months and they seemed to have only slight differences; I don’t know how many years of aging might make a difference. Ginger bread, cinnamon, dried fruit, not much taste of alchool if any at all, a thicker texture than most beers and, again, that incredible smooth, almost soothing warmth. Hop bitterness is a little shattered by the sweet malt. Good but destructive on an evening. Boozy-boozy-bop, Zidibop (that’s how you feel after an unshared one!)