Schloss Eggenberg Samichlaus Bier

Brewed by Brauerei Schloss Eggenberg
Style: Doppelbock
Vorchdorf, Austria

2001 bottle...may be over cellared. pours a deep apaque brown color with virtually no head. nice aroma...very nutty with notes of subtle vanilla, raisins (good call jeff), and phenols that reminded me a bit of scotch. flavor is extremely sweet with flavors of blackberries and light vanilla...much like brandy with a touch of hops. motufeel is very heavy and syrupy with a long warming finish.

Holy smokes what an experience. Sweet and syrupy with some plum, prune, and raisin flavors. Leaves a cloyingly sweet aftertaste. Big plum and prune aromas with a hint of caramel. Major port wine characteristics in this serious sipper of a beer. Pours a clear brown with a red tint and looks weak compared to its massive body and flavor.

Bottled in 2001, i’m assuming it was brewed Dec 6 2000... Pours a dark brown with a small head with huge bubbles... Smells a bit nutty, a few spices(clove, allspice perhaps), mildly sweet, some dark fruits(raisen), chocolate, and definitely alcohol... initially there is no alcohol taste in the first sips while the beer is still relatively cold, but watch out... Taste is maple syrupy, with some notes of vanilla and a touch of sweet liqueur, oh, and a wallop of alcohol in the finish and middle of every sip, and a bit in the front as the beer warms.... Syrupy full bodied... I give it plus 1 on the overall for withstanding 8 years in a basement...

Amber, brownish red color. A bit too sweet or fruity. Sweet as can be. Maple syrup, honey. Sweet alcohol pervades. Big as hell.

Bottle. Pours an off-white head with a copper body. Smells of dark dried fruits, roasted grain, and alcohol. Tastes of raisin, prune, fig, caramel, wheat, rye, and spices. Finish is dried fruit and sticky.

Millésime 2006, sortie de mon cellier et dégusté à une température de 11 degré. Dégusté dans un verre de dominus vobiscum grande réserve. Bière de couleur caramel cuivré au reflet orangé avec de fine bulle et un très petit collet de mousse. Odeur de prune, pomme caramel, sirop de canneberge, sucre de canne, poivre et sirop d’érable. Un bon goût de gingembre, de houblon, de sirop d’érable, d’une touche de canelle, de caramel et de canneberge. Longue en bouche, huilleuse, alcool avec un fini crémeux et réchauffant. Une bonne gazéfication, un bel équilibre, épaise en bouche avec un style hors du commun. Un léger goût de tarte au poire apparaît vers les 14 degré. Il y a aussi un goût partculier de spiruline et d’essences vertes fortifier en cask de chêne. Je lui trouve aussi en rétro-olfaction un goût de framboise.

Bottle@Home. Doppelbock? Eisbock more likely to me. Aroma of apples with raisin. Dark amber color, off-white completely and fast disappearing head, no lace. Very sweet, bitter, apple, cinnamon, light herbal, malty. Sticky and warming. Ok, but nothing special and one dimensional.

Definitely a very big warming brew with the massive alcohol nicely enrobed in the elegant big malt profile - it’s not just sweet there’s flavor in there, and I will keep a few bottles for maturation. Bock-like in the subtle flavors, a whiff of wet hay. Coppery golden hue, a bit thick. Moderate silky carbonation. This will express itself in the aroma over the years and right now is a bit restrained in its potential, although extremely drinkable a it is.