Schloss Eggenberg Samichlaus Bier Helles

Brewed by Brauerei Schloss Eggenberg
Style: Doppelbock
Vorchdorf, Austria

bottle. pours clear dark golden with fizzy oh wait no head at all. aroma is straight up mead with some apples. flavor is very sweet, boozy, lots of honey, apples, cherry skins, with a pale malt base. warming alcohol down the throat but not a burn. sticky body. these samichlaus brews will put hair where your body lacks it. resembles a mead over any doppelbock i’ve had but whatever this is strong and tasty. split this amongst friends.

Pours just like any other helles - pale golden color, thin white head, and you can see through it quite well. Nose is a little tepid. Some honey & sweetbread aromas. Palate packs a whopper malt character with honey-like sweetness, alcohol punch to your face, and a syrupy thick mouthfeel. It’s not almost syrupy, it is syrupy. This could be served on buttermilk pancakes if desired. Finish is warming with plenty of alcohol presence.

A bit more than I can handle once I got past the intriguing aroma. Too sweet almost honey like. Alcohol is quite overwhelming.

bottle. golden pour with a large amount of carbonation to thin bubbled head. yeast, cherry, sweet malts aroma. huge alcohol warming. malts are huge, maple, sugar, fruit. Much too powerful. syrup texture. dry sandpaper finish.

Pours a rich golden body with a big foamy head.. which unfortunately doesn’t want to hang around for long. Very sweet aroma (of course), pale malts with apples and cherries, cut by a whiff of alcohol. Same sweet flavor with a touch of citric bitterness and a soothing alcohol hit. It finishes sweet and sticky with a low alcohol burn. Now This is a Doppelbock!

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Bottle at Belmont Station. Nice that you can buy at the store and drink on the Bistro side. Huge alcohol beer that I nursed between other samples. Orange amber. Light head. Sweet syrupy caramel nose. Flavour is syrupy sweet with a huge alcohol presence. Like a high octane liquid caramel toffee.

Sampled from a 12 oz brown bottle this beer poured a vibrant golden amber color with a large soapy white head that faded quickly. The aroma was biting yet sweet, fruity and yeasty with noted citrus and alcohol on the nose. The flavor was tangy, yeasty, sugary and boozy with hints of cheap bourbon and a long sweet and tangy finish. The mouthfeel was very thick. The alcohol was so dominant that it really overwhelmed this one.

Poured into a pilsner glass. Nice golden yellow body with a head that disappeared rapidly. Initial flavor of malts and alcohol. Finish was sweet. Interesting beer, but a little too sweet for me. The alcohol level was a little to much for the body of the beer.