Schloss Eggenberg Samichlaus Bier Helles

Brewed by Brauerei Schloss Eggenberg
Style: Doppelbock
Vorchdorf, Austria

Clear golden orange, moderate to small head with some lacing and retention. Aroma is dominated by grain and is quite hot. Some vague fruity notes, but it’s not very promising. Very sweet sugary grain flavor with a lot of alcohol. Sloppy.

2007 Vintage. 11.2 oz bottle served in a brandy snifter. Poured a clear pale gold. Thin white head that dissipated quickly. Boozy aroma with a little fruit. Very full bodied almost syrup. Lots of malt sweetness with some caramel. There is a little bit of hop bitter. Warming but not hot considering the ABV. A nice beer to sip on a cold evening. For malt lovers only!

12oz btl from fourwinds int, pensacola..beautiful pour with very thin head. abv hidden nicey...very complex....good brew

Well then, this isn’t to bad, though it’s a bit big for the britches. Pours a very clear golden yellow with not much of a head. The nose is sweet! Alcoholic with strong floral overtones. Hops? Huh, is this a first machination of an IIPA? Not quite. Though very alcoholic and rather malty. But exceedingly subtle after the alcohol. Full and creamy and slick in the mouth, lovely really. Incredibly sweet! Alcoholic booze nitemare! But still very fun. Some floral hops. Some fruity hops? Rich sweet light malt. Which is hard to do. This is kind of like a whiskey/ beer liquor. Lingering alcohol heat in a slightly toasty dopplebock finish. Tons of heat, but here it works. I’ll have to see what this is like after some time. Good thing I bought three others.

Pours a clear pale yellow body with a skimpy white head that quickly falls to a film. Aroma is bready and malty, with faint florals and some phenolics. Medium body, somewhat syrupy, with low carbonation. Taste is malty and earthy with a hint of floral hops. Whiskey like warming alcohol. A good winter sipper but this one could use some age.

12 oz bottle purchased at Oak Tree. Pours a clear bubbly orange with a small totally diminshing white head. Boozy aroma with notes of bready malts, green apples and honey sweetness. Medium chewy body with a very dry finish and slight alcohol warming. Dry flavor of booze, bread and slightly fruity. Not bad but some time might allow this beer to really show some more potential.

2007 bottle. Head is initially small, fizzy, off-white, fully diminishing. Body is clear dark yellow. Aroma is moderately malty (caramel, bread), with notes of peach, alcohol, candy sugar. Flavor is heavily sweet, lightly acidic, lightly bitter. Finish is lightly to moderately sweet, lightly acidic, lightly to moderately bitter. Medium body, watery/syrupy texture, lively carbonation, moderately to heavily alcoholic. Not tooooo far removed from the regular Sami, just a bit milder. Enjoyable to a degree but boozy and kinda simple.

Great extra from SoLan. A blonde dopplebock. Pours very light, frothy tiny head that disappears right away. Overripe fruit (white grape, peach) and strong corn fusels (a bit euro-strong lager-like). Taste is alcohol hot, sweet, some hearty grain and bread. Slick and somewhat thick. Fatiguingly sweet...but still a fascinating drink. Nice in a 140 cl snifter (kind of like those little EKU glasses).