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Schloss Eggenberg Samichlaus Bier Helles 3.33 251

Schloss Eggenberg Samichlaus Bier Helles

Percentile
77
overall
Brewed by Brauerei Schloss Eggenberg
Style: Doppelbock

Vorchdorf, Austria

bottled
common

on tap
unknown

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RatingsAverageScoreSeasonalABVStyle PctlServe in
2513.34/5.03.33/5.0Winter14%61Dimpled mug, Stein, Stem glass
Commercial Description:
Samichlaus is brewed once a year on December 6, and is aged for 10 months before bottling. It is one of the rarest specialties in the world. Samichlaus may be aged in the bottle for many years to come, as older vintages become more complex. Brilliant deep amber, complex dry toasted malt nose and huge intensely sweet palate. The 2007 bottling is the first bottling since 1986.
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 Butters (1653), Virginia, USA
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/57/103/511/20
Dec 21, 2008  
2007 bottle. Pours a brilliantly clear with fair white head. Sweet burning vanilla alcohol aroma. Nice warming sensation. Good for a novelty, but too expensive. Reminds me of a high alc. hurricane


 alobar (1051), Harleysville, Pennsylvania, USA
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/103/515/20
Dec 19, 2008  
Golden amber color with a thin white head, Aroma of honey and fruit with some alcohol. Taste is sweet with honey and some fruit. Bit of a hot edge.Thic ksipping beer.


 blutt59 (2182), Dallas, Texas, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/58/104/515/20
Dec 19, 2008  
bottle, light golden color, still head, aroma has a lot of honey, melon and apple notes, flavor is cooked apple, more melon and fruity floral finish


 Ober (1235), Bommelerwaard, Netherlands
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/102/57/103/515/20
Dec 8, 2008  
A clear amber colored beer, with a small beige head. It disappears quickly. The aroma of caramel, sweet malt and fruits. And alcohol. The taste is sweet, burny alcohol, spicey some pepper. There are notes of porto. The aftertaste is burney and a little bitter.


 scrizzz (1338), kirkland, Washington, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/58/104/516/20
Dec 4, 2008  
Honeycomb aroma with alcohol heat like a barleywine, light clear amber. Incredibly complex: pine, honey, orange syrup, sunshine and happiness. Thickest Helles I have ever met, more approachable and with more distinct flavors than the more popular cousin.


 TomDecapolis (3218), Skippack, Pennsylvania, USA
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/104/514/20
Dec 1, 2008  
2007 Bottle. Pours a mostly translucent golden with orange notes and a medium bubbly/creamy white head that left lacing. Aroma of sweet malts, tropical fruits, vanilla, melons, apple and light grainy notes. Overall sweet and syrupy aroma...but in a good way. Flavor of green apples, honey, sweet syrupy malt, light grainy notes, light alchol burn, tropical fruits, grapes...and yeah sweet. I enjoyed this one...but was a bit sweet and malty. Toffee/toasted malt burps.


 larsga (3000), Oslo, Norway
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/57/103/514/20
Dec 1, 2008  
Small offwhite head. Light amber body. Deep fruity straw, malt and alcohol aroma. Deep intense malty strawberry and alcohol taste with straw and caramel notes. Smooth, round mouthfeel. Some alcohol heat. Bitter straw and malts aftertaste with alcohol and strawberry notes. Very nice and rounded, dangerously easily drinkable. (0.33l bottle from gr0ve.)


 krysztofar (344), belleville, Illinois, USA
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/56/103/513/20
Nov 30, 2008  
11.2 thanks jim! vibrant bronze color. low carbonation. quickly vanishing head. Aroma is vanilla cream melons and strong berry fruit. strawberries? intensely sweet start. high alcohol is noticed but mostly in the body and texture. finish is actually quite clean. light hop bitterness. a little sticky, but not what i would call cloying. spicy finish is perfect.



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