Schloss Eggenberg Samichlaus Bier

The once strongest beer in the world? Who knew. Aroma is brown sugar, malt, raisons. Flavor is Sweet malt, dark fruity hints, alcohol. Pretty complex palate, carbonation hits you on back end, interesting beer. Slightly syrupy, but not overdone.

No 422
Rated: 30.05.2008
Bottle brown, 330 ml, 32 P
Appearance: Pours brown to red, a bit hazy in texture, carbonation of the body is weak, head is fizzy and rapidly disappearing after half a minute completely while initially is small, white, looks very oily.
Aroma: Cherry liquor, strong sweetness and heavyness in aroma, alcohol is not that harshly felt as I could expect from the strongest beer in the Lager world, in fact alcohol is felt very gently, I think it’s not only a reason of brewing technique but it’s also thanks to the low carbonation. All in all aroma is mild.
Flavour: Front is kind of heavy alcoholic nose and sweetness on the tongue than quite quickly you can feel the heavy body, fat maltyness, almost syrupy like, there is quite considerable ammount of hops but it’s still completely dominated by syrupy sweetness. In spite of that there is flowery and fruity (mainly cherry with a hint of plum and bramble) retronasal aroma. Finish duration is long. A load of additional sweetness. Extremelly warming beer. Later on some bready touch, very good for cold winter evenings.
Palate: Body is full, texture is syrupy, carbonation is practically not felt on palate, finish feel is heavy alcoholic.

Vintage 2006. Bottle pours a very dark amber with a quickly dissipating thin tan head.Aroma is sweet, malty, hint of apple. Taste is sweet with hints of light fruits, vanilla, scotch, and oak finishes malty and bitter. Good alcohol burn

From the Beverage Barn in East Meadow, NY. Aged in my basement since last August. Beautiful aroma of dark fruits, alcohol, oak. Very attractive rusty red to brown color and a clear, modest white head. Nice sweetness in its flavor, sweet malts, candy sugar, slight alcohol (especially for 14% ABV). The finish is sweet, and has a pleasant alcohol burn. Thick, oily mouthfeel. Nicely crafted beer. Definitely a winter beer. Not really like a dopplebock, it is more like a barley wine, without any hoppiness.

This beer is just too much for me. The alcohol burn gets me just too much. Dont get me wrong, this is a well done beer, just too much for me. Very dark amber color with a malty as hell aroma. Dark fruit, caramel and syrupy. The alcohol hits you at first, in the middle and the end. Pretty damn strong. A slow sipper for sure.

Brewed in 2007. Pours dark amber with a fully receding tan head. Aroma of thick chewy malt, caramelized wort, cherries, and plum. Thick bodied, heavy and syrupy with soft, stingy carbonation. Very strong and very intense.

Rusty, copper color. Smell of pepper, clove, cinnamon, malt, prunes, raisins, alcohol and brown sugar. Tastes the same and has a very dry, burning taste at the end. Mouth feels warm as does the rest of my body. Very nice.

This is a good strong (really strong) beer. Dark color, super tasty, a slow drinking beverage. So many flavors come from this its fun to enjoy. Only really good in colder times of year. A beer named after Satna Claus cant be bad :-)