Schloss Eggenberg Urbock 23°

Brewed by Brauerei Schloss Eggenberg
Style: Doppelbock
Vorchdorf, Austria

11.2 ounce bottle. Served in a mug, the beer pours a clear dark golden color with a half-inch white head that goes away quickly. Not much lacing at all. Aroma is sweet and malty, it smells like caramel and bready malt, toffee, apples and honey. The taste is pretty much the same as the aroma, except that there is some booze noticable, and there’s also a slight bitter herbal taste in the finish. Mouthfeel/body is medium, it’s a bit sticky and creamy with moderate carbonation. The drinkability is decent enough, it’s not hard to drink. Overall I think this is a decent brew, but there are other dopplebocks I like more than this one. But it is worth a try.

330ml bottle, golden color, with an off-white head, sweet toasted, honeyed grainy malt cereal, light corny nose, with a liquorish accent, and some faint fruity pear, apple, notes, with some alcoholic effluvia in the aroma follows through on a medium-bodied palate, with a sweet toasted malty, honeyed cereal, fruity warmth character with a liqueurish cognac accent, with some faint candied lemon peel, green apple, pear fruitiness, leading towards a warming, fruity, liquorish honeyish, dry finish.

Golden amber honey color. 2 finger head which fades quickly to a thin layer of foam. Nice retention. Minimal lacing. (Overripe) apples, pears and peaches. Sweet honeyed biscuits. Light maltiness. Honey and overripe (white-meat) fruits. Sweet malts. Very slight spicey bite. Slight taste of alcohol, though not as much as expected. Feels nice, but thin. Too watery. Needs more body. Possibly a bit more carbonation would help also. Very sweet and somewhat thin, combined with 9.6% ABV, make this one for certain occasions only.

33cL bottle, Venice, Italy. Lovely aroma of rich vanilla, golden syrup, hay and biscuit. Deep blond body, thick white head. Big rich body, huge length, nice carbonation. Much of the nose on the body, rich yet well balanced and flavourful. Bloody nice!

Aroma of brandied apples and caramel. Appearance is much lighter than it’s German counterparts, almost a reddish brown and rather transparent, creamy well carbonated body and head. Flavor is hard to pinpoint... certainly has some liquor qualities, perhaps brandy or even bourbon, with some sour apple and caramel flavor. Palate was bubbly. Perhaps too misunderstood to reap a fair rating. I would like to see this one age.

0,33 l bottle from Julius Meinl gourmet shop in Vienna. Pours a slightly coppery, pale golden color with diminshing head. Aroma of cooked corn with different kinds of candies. Poor flavor of distinct cooked corn feel with sugary malts, some berries and faint diesel oil in the aftertaste. It warms me up, but leaves an ugly corny feel in the back of my tounge. Body of a typical watery lagerbeer with avarage carbonation, and harsh alcohol. It has nothin to do with cognac and noble hops. Totally disappointment for me at this moment - who knows, maybe i’d had to wait until the end of the expiration in 2011??? To tell in two words it’s simply unbalanced and one-dimensional. Or maybe i’ve some trouble with my palate????

Pours copper with a white head. Smells of sweet malt, earthy, dark fruit. Tastes sweet and sugary with some dark fruity hints and a rosey finish.

Golden brown color with white head and decent lacing. Aroma of caramel and malt with similar flavors of both. Fairly well balanced. Shows its strength, sit close to the floor.