Schloss Eggenberg Samichlaus Bier

2004 compliments of Jen. Pours deep brown amber with some foam. Aroma is vanilla and caramel with definite yeast. Wow, sweet, sweet malt and serious sugar-caramel, almost like a cola. Mouthfeel is effervescent and refreshing. Almost no detectable hops, but still lots of caramelized flavours to the end. Very unique.

had a 2004 and 2005 version. very nice sweet big time but a great sipper, had the first one as a warmer after snowboarding, was perfect

2005 bottle. Dark amber-brown pour with nice carbonation. Raisons and alcohol in the aroma with notes of other dark fruits. Sweet candy is the initial taste. There are raisons and prunes in there as well. Alcohol is present but it is very well integrated. Thick mouth feel. Sticky. Very enjoyable sipper. This should be very nice in a few years.

Wow. I just found my old notes on this beer and I thought that I had entered my rating earlier. We had this when my wife, Quillaraymi, returned from Atlanta with a bunch of beers. This is a deeply colored beer with a strong alchohol aroma. In the mouth you get the strong sense of alchohol and the warming effects, but there are a ton of flabors in there. Caramels, flowers, vanailla extract. It seems more like a cognac than a beer. Very complex, and DEFINATELY a sipping beer.

Pours deep gold with hints of amber - and thin off-white head. The aroma has quite a bit of alcohol - but also a strong presence of malts, molasses, and vanilla with hints of banana and somewhat reminiscent of a manzanilla sherry. The flavor is warm on the tongue from alcohol (burns like a strong wine or a weak spirit) - but not in a bad way (if you like whiskey, you certainly won’t mind it). The flavor has lots of fruit for a lager - pear, figs, caramel candied apples - and some sweet malt along with hints of marsala wine and calvados (apple brandy). The alcohol also warms the back of the throat as it goes down (again, not unlike a spirit). The finish is sweet and has a lingering fruit and alcohol after-taste - the alcohol sticks to the back of the tongue. Despite the clear evidence of its strength in both aroma and flavor, this beer is wicked good and complex.

Bottle. Creamy white fair mostly deminishing head. Moderate malty and very alcoholic aroma. Wat too alcoholic flavor. Really a bad experience. Oily palate. I hate this beer!

Pours amber-red with an almost nonexistent head. You can smell it as soon as it leaves the bottle: toffee-sweet and 14% alcoholic. Closer olfactory inspection reveals a honeyish tinge to the sweetness reminiscent of an amped-up Maibock. The flavor begins with that honey sweetness, but soon gives way to caramel, toffee, brown sugar, and a heapin helpin of alcohol. This would be the perfect winter beer if circumstance required that I live outside. Give a bottle to a hobo and keep two for yourself.

330 ml bottle. Deep amber reddish colour and crystal clear. Almost no head. Looks syrupy. Sweet sugar syrup and slightly nutty, but also a bit oxidized acidic malts. Gentle, but distinct bitterness and a little late a strong sticky sweetness. Leaves a lightly bittersweet sensation. Filling.