Schloss Eggenberg Samichlaus Bier

Brewed by Brauerei Schloss Eggenberg
Style: Doppelbock
Vorchdorf, Austria

Rich strong and creamy. The beer is reminiscent of a brandy or cognac with strong flavors of chocolate, cream, and dark grapes.

2003 bottle shared by aceofhearts. Thanks for this one!
Pours a light clear copper and looks very iced tea like in the glass. Smell is very faintly boozy and big rich sweet caramel and a nutty character to it , which along with the sweetness, reminds me of pecan prailines. Taste is rich, potent and sweet caramel with a nice warming feel to it and no distracting boozy flavors. Rich, sweet, but not cloying and really nice for sipping! 4-5 years has done this beer really well. Thanks again, Chad.

bottle @ home . Please take my advise and try this one with the heaviest goooeyest chocolate cake you can find and you’ll love the stuff. Beer and cake sounds odd but in this instant it really works!!! because, samichlaus with its heavy alcohol, does need something to balance it out, and due to its gorgeous treacle, caramel, coffe, vanilla and oak flavours lends itself to chocolate perfectly!

so a friend brought over two bottles of this last year and we tried one and it was not so hot. we started into a few others and he told me to keep the other bottle which i have cellared now for a year.

bottled 2005 the worlds most extraordinary beer poured a caramel amber in color with a thin layer of white head that faded quickly. carbonation started off strong but died just as fast as the head. aroma has dark fermented fruit, alcohol, sweet syrup, and dark malt. taste is plenty sweet with dark fruit and molasses. seems it has mellowed a bit from aging and is not as cloying in the sweetness department. bits of oak and vanilla come through after the taste buds get over the shock. there is a strange creaminess that has come about and it is actually much more drinkable.

For me, this was more a novelty beer. It’s worth trying because it is unique, but that doesn’t make it very drinkable. I was fortunate enough to find a magnum of this beer and made a party out of it. It is important that this beer is as cold as possible, once it warms up it because incredibly hard to drink.

At Three cellars tasting. Kidnap the Samichlaus, throw him in a box. Lock him up for 90 years and see if he talks… Sorry, bad Nightmare before Christmas joke there, but that movie left a better impression on me than the "Strongest beer in the world!" Very sticky and the alcohol is prevalent, way too sweet. Almost like taking a shot of something… bad.

Pours amber with a thin white head. dark fruit and booze aroma. Flavor is red and greemn apples, molasses, sugary candy, brown sugar, alcohol. Very syrupy mouthfeel. Lots of booze noticed. Interesting.

If it were not served chilled, I could confuse Samichlaus Bier with a port. The color is a beautifully deep amber with a quickly disappearing but nice head. The aroma is very sweet with notes of whiskey, molasses and cherry. This is a fantastic after dinner drink.