Schloss Eggenberg Samichlaus Bier

Brewed by Brauerei Schloss Eggenberg
Style: Doppelbock
Vorchdorf, Austria

Tasted like drinking a bottle of maple syrup. Alcohol very obvious. This was extremely heavy. Ordinarily that’s fine with me, but this one didn’t set well with me. Tasted like the secret ingredient might be cough syrup. Would not buy again.

This pours amber/orange with no head. Smells a bit stout, but the taste is very much like a dessert port. Strong alcohol and syrupy sweet. Not something to have with a steak, but I’d have it with dessert, if I could finance it.

a clear red copper with a light tan head. smells of dark fruit carmel and a light soy sauce. full syrupy body. tastes heavily of alcohol and piney malt. really makes no attempt to hide the 14%. there is also honey and raisin, but really the alcohol and pine overpower. heavy and definitely a dessert beer.

Alcohol mutha’. Deceptively clear, w/ a right on nose... of alcohol, maybe malt...maybe. Heavily sweet. Fuckin’ awesome, but here’s the kicker: $20 a 4 pack

A Mes rate: 33cl bottle. What a load of rubbish. Stupidly strong and lacking any finesse whatsoever. Im sure American folks love it... ;)

2004 vintage. Pours a clear reddish orange wth no head at all. Big malty smell s with some dark fruit, alcohol, and some cheesecake. Alcohol really comes through here. Monster of a beer, right off of the bat. Big, big alcohol taste. Very fruity with some smooth caramel and syrupy malts. Some vanilla appears in the finish. The aftertaste has some sweetness to it, but just really dominated by the high alcohol. Big beer.

2005 vintage. Bottle into small tumbler; purchased at Sam’s in Chicago. Much fizzier pour than I expected. Head dissipates almost instantly, leaving no lacing, no racing, no nothing except tons of visible carbonation rushing to the top through the clear copper brown beer and dying there without fanfare. Immediately upon uncapping the bottle, aromas wafted up to my nose. Beer smells malty, with awesome brown sugar syrup drenching plums and apricots. Smells less deep than the Hurlimann version, with less chocolate and maybe sweeter (probably due to its relatively young age), but otherwise the same. First sip shows a thick beer with fruity malt character that’s instantly delicious and full, with an alcohol burn in the finish so obvious and well tutored that it had to be intentional. Almost like the porty beer that aged Hurliman is, but without the delectable chocolate that pervades that beer. It’s like a fruitier, non-hoppy barleywine. The alcohol in the finish is somewhat acrid and bitter, but mostly just drying. As a final thought, this is the only strong beer I’ve had (and I’ve had stronger ones) that decidedly assured me that it was not a session beer.

2003 bottle poured into a snifter. Orangey brown with zero head. Very sweet caramel aroma with big alcohol. The alcohol really does a number on your nose hair. There is also a cartain fruity, pineapple maybe, scent. The flavor is very sweet. I don’t know that I’d call is cloying, but sweet nonetheless. There also some toast there. The finish is pure alcohol. What a burn. Leves the lips kind of sticky.