Schloss Eggenberg Urbock 23°

Brewed by Brauerei Schloss Eggenberg
Style: Doppelbock
Vorchdorf, Austria

Very nice rich gold with almost no head. Sweetish aroma and got some vanilla flavour. Not as sweet as many bocks I’ve had lately which is a good thing. Decent finish and kicks a real punch.

330 ml bottle from the LCBO. pours golden with a short lived fizzy head that had huge bubbles. soft carbonation. aromas of complex sweet malts with some chewy graininess and noble hops with alcohol coming through at the end. flavours are initial a plesant mix of sweetness, malts and noble hops before the alcohol smacks you in the face. not a bad brew but theres alot i didnt care for. my other bottle will not be opened for a while and we will see if that helps smooth this one out a bit.

Bottle from LCBO, golden with zero head and zero visible head. Malt-grass aroma with lemon traces. What a mix mash of flavour, bitter, toffee, sour, sharp, not nice at all, drainpour

Clear golden with a thin white head. Aroma is malt, spices, cloves and ginger. Flavor us sweet malt, corn, spices, orange zest, vanilla and a hint of ice cider. Medium body with low carbonation.

At Three cellars tasting. A bit too sticky and sweet, maybe I don’t like Doppelbocks as much as I thought I did. This one left a bitter finish and it just felt all wrong.

Clear golden poor with a very thin almost non-existant head. Aromas of corn, corn syrup, cranberries, toffee and ginger. Missing a little complexity for a 9% brew... Lack of bitterness, sweeter presence. Creamy body with nice effervescence. Flavors of lime and beer, corn and acohol fumes. Far from the cognac of beers but definitely worth trying.

Surprisingly light and clear but that is just my ’bock’ preconception. Reserved hop presence allows silky toffee malts to predominate. Very warming alcoholic strength but (at cellar temp, not even chilled) the alcohol was well integrated into the malty body - it was never "burning hot". Overall reminds me variously of disparate beers - Mill Street 2005 Barley Wine, HOTD ADAM, and Tripels such as Chimay. All said, very good & unusual strong lager, quite drinkable and I really enjoy it. I refuse to believe it would expire on the half-year life span indicated. It would cellar much longer and is a very nice value IMO. ** oh and I’d like to add this is probably very much a beer for the Austrian’s taste, and as such is very true to itself and its lager-yeast providence. A thing that is what it is deserves individual respect rather than just a lot of searching comparisons. IMO.

331ml bottle from LCBO- Decants sparkling gold/with lime green accents and pours a fizzy white head. The nose is heavy on the grains, and is accompanied by lemon peel, some licorice, and some dank, wet hay. This beer shows flavours of sweet grain, lemon zest, vanilla pudding, sweet, zesty malts, with good spice. FInishes a bit too sweet for my taste (reminds me of pineau de charentes), with a pineapple fruit zing. It’s good, but only in small doses.