Schloss Eggenberg Urbock 23°

Brewed by Brauerei Schloss Eggenberg
Style: Doppelbock
Vorchdorf, Austria

Golden amber color, no head. Strong malty alcohol taste. Finished with alcohol. It’s a sipper.

Pours deep gold, almost orange; holding it to sunlight, I get a prismatic rainbow on the floor. Large bubbles form a sparse white head that is gone in 60 seconds, and all carbonation disappears not long after that. Overwhelming MALT nose- buttercream icing, caramel and vanilla. Also just the barest, faintest whiff of grass and golden riasins. A quick driveby of lager-y malt flavor collides with a brick wall of honey-herb cough drop, reinforced with burnt sugar bitterness. Mouthfeel is, well, thick. Woody aftertaste with a touch of mint degrades into a flavor somewhere between generic-brand cigarette butt and lawnmower exhaust. Not very complex, and overly bitter for the style; flavor approaches that of cheap nasty scotch

Clear golden with a fast disappearing white head. The aroma is some citric fruits, hay, some underlying maltiness. The flavor is very alcoholic, malts, citrus. A bit too much alcohol burn.

Beer pours (in Chimay glass) a medium orange-golden liquid with a small amount of slightly off-white colored head that dissipates quickly to near nothing, but leaves a thin film. Aroma is an orange-lemon citrus with maybe a faint grain, straw, grass, vegetal character. Flavor is a sweet and strong alcohol citrus with a noticable grain, straw, grass, vegetal. Definitely a noticable alcohol burn. Overall, unpleasant to drink. Sampled at 60 degrees Fahrenheit.

Good glassy copper color with not much head at all. Aroma is nutty and smells of malt and wheat. Flavor has a good crisp feel, probably from the bitterness and the alcohol. Fine beer, but nothing to sensational.

Hazy rusty amber with a thin to non existant white head. The nose is awesome sweetness malts, suggary with a hint of like fruitcake. Kind of reminds me of scotch. The taste starts off malty sweet with a tad of rusty metal. Alcohol vapours at the back of the tounge. Overall, quite interesting, but the rustyness of the taste kind of bothers me.

Very nice fruity aroma with lots of malt. Some musty tones at times when whiffed at a distance -- earth, mold, cheese. Nice embossed bottle, clean, simple label. Well-balanced, peach ice cream flavor, some vanilla cakiness, ABV is masked but definitely detectable. Not tinny or sherryish. Full-bodied, front-sweet finish moving on to a long lasting, edgy finale. Quite good.

Bottled. Dark golden colour, small white head, disappears fast, glass sticking. Sweet nose, at first I smell a strange aroma of fresh cut potatoes, after this, more conventional aromas of fruity, apricot and peach preserved in spirit, malt aroma(bread, potatoes bread), alcohol. Taste is sweet (honey), with a lot of alcohol sweetness. Full body, with an excessive alcohol-feel, rather heavy but easy to drink if compared with similar strong lager beers. It's a beer punch!