Schloss Eggenberg Samichlaus Bier

Brewed by Brauerei Schloss Eggenberg
Style: Doppelbock
Vorchdorf, Austria

An Amber colored beer, with an off-white head. It disappears quickly. The aroma of sweet caramel malt, with fruits. The taste of caramel with alcohol, fruits like cherries. The aftertaste is a little bitter, with alcohol and it is warm.

Bottling 06 from an 11.2 oz bottle. Pours a rusty amber with no head or carbonation. The nose is heavy alcohol with candied fruit and yeasty bread. Big flavor with sweet fruit, big malt and some hot alcohol. Real big beer. Will keep you warm on a cold winter night. Actually a little too much for me.

330mL bottle from the LCBO. Pours a very attractive dark copper with a small white surface film. Aroma is quite nice, olives, sweet Munich malts, alcohol, toffee, caramel, a tiny hint of Noble hops, and a whoooooole lotta sweetness. Flavour is like, BAM, sweetness to the max. Actually its boozy up front, then you get hit with this ridiculous amount of malty sweetness I cant even handle it. It actually hides the ABV somewhat well for how high it is. Wow. Its like, wow. Bam. Holy, living, f***. Very thick and full feeling, which it damn well better be at 14 percent. Holy crap. Big beer. Short sentence inducing. Sweet. Booze. Good? Yes. One bottle more than enough? Probably. The stupid LCBO know it all sticker on the back says its only 12point3 percent abv, and they are pretty anal about these things so they are probably right.

Poured amber with no head, a very pretty beer in the glass. The aroma is very remarkable, a rich malty, caramelly nose to it. The taste is highly on the cloying side, it is very difficult for me to finish. There is a very apparant caramel flavor, almost like a candy. There is also some pretty heavy alcohol flavor, the 14% is not disguised very well. I would put this in the afer meal sipper category.

Very warm beer.Truly rare,sweet,alcoholic with ahint of brandy. For a warm and comfortable afterdinner. A great beer!

Bottle, 2006. Moderate malt and hop aromas of cookie, roasted, nutty, caramel, and perfume with no noticable yeast smell. Background notes of rasin and date, butterscotch, vanilla and lots of alcohol. Head is small, creamy with only fair lacing but the body is definitely leggy. It diminishes almost completely and the color is clear copper. Flavor starts moderately sweet and lightly acidic, then finishes moderately sweet, lightly bitter and a touch sour. Palate is medium to full, syrupy and has an almost flat carbonation. It finishes heavily alcoholic. An extreme Doppelbock. You definitely need to take your time with it...and should let warm a bit too.

330ml Bottle from the SAQ as part of a trade for a server cabinet The aroma was cloyingly SWEET and smoky with a touch of honey and molasses Pours a nice coppery brown with no head or lacing to speak of This beer is very very sweet and syrupy the high ABV is well masked but this was just not a very enjoyable beer for me I could not even finish it

Caraca!!! Cerveja bem forte, de coloração avermelhada e espuma bege de média formação e curta duração. Aroma e sabor complexos, muito agradáveis, sugerindo malte tostado, chocolate e talvez amêndoa ou avelã. O álcool é perceptível (já esperava por isso, afinal são 14%). Cada gole é uma paulada... Desce queimando! Realmente, parece licor (lembro que ela é uma "Malt Liquor"). Final adocicado e seco. Tirando o excessivo teor alcoólico, a cerveja é muito boa. Seria fantástica se o fabricante tivesse conseguido a proeza de equilibrar melhor o álcool no conjunto, o que não deve ser nada fácil. De qualquer forma, vale experimentá-la pela singularidade.