Schloss Eggenberg Samichlaus Bier

Brewed by Brauerei Schloss Eggenberg
Style: Doppelbock
Vorchdorf, Austria

2006 Vintage. 33cL bottle. Clear, light amber. Aroma of rich malt, alcohol. Alcohol rings on the glass. Flavor is sweet, malty, and syrupy. This one is a sipper! This is the Cognac of Beers!

First rating
(33 cl bottle from Systembolaget) 2007 bottle.
Pours looking and sounding like a soda pop. the "head" also looks like a freshly poured coke, dissapears as fast and in the same way. Clear brown color, no head at all just 2 seconds after poured. Sweet malty and alcohol scent. Some spicy peppar tones as well, most likely higher alcohols. Full malty and alcohol taste, warming alcohol feeling. Would most likely age very well since it almost have some raissin tones even in the very "fresh" one. Full mouthfeel, medium bitterness. Spicy alcohol finish and sweet aftertaste.
5/2/7/4/11=2.9

Rerate
33 cl bottle thanks to ekstedt! On February 2, 2009. BB 10.2012. Bottled in 2007
Clear dark amber to copper color, small white head. Alcohol, also grassy herbal, scent. Very sweet and alochol taste, vinous with some raissins and solvents. Medium mouthfeel, medium bitterness.
4/2/4/3/8=2.1

Clear amber color. Minimal to no head. Alcohol is prominent, but not overwhelming. Has some soft brandy soaked fruit flavors along with a strong helping of candy sugar and malt. The beer is syrupy and full in body, also lacking carbonation. The smell of alcohol is strong. Aromas of burnt candied sugar and bourbon. Winter warmer for sure, overall a pretty solid beer.

The aroma is sweet and inviting. The appearance looks like a brown ale. Amber-coloured. The palate is a bit too dominated with the overbearing 14% ABV. Overall, good, but wouldn’t want to drink it all the time. "The world’s most extraordinary beverage" is surely an overstatement, though effective, since it got me to buy it (once).

How does this beer only have a 3.51 average rating? Simply incredible. Had this as a dessert beer at a German restaurant. Palate is very syrupy, tastes of cherries, raisins, honey. This one is massive, a sipping beer for sure. Need to find a 4-pack of this to keep around!

Practically headless and uncarbonated in appearance with a clear reddish brown color which looks more like whiskey than beer. Aroma is darkly fruited and sweet with a hint of grapiness. Taste is deeply alcoholic and cloyingly sweet with rich fruits, particularly at finish (which is also where the booziness shines through on exhalation). Despite its apparent lack of carbonation, it is actually perfectly carbonated with small gentle bubbles which produce a subtle, viscous mouthfeel. Very delicious, but perhaps just the tiniest bit too sweet. $5/12oz

This is a very pleasing beer. I really cannot find fault with it. A beer for those in the know. I wish I could find it here. I recommend it for all serious drinkers.

0.33 l bottle from 2004. Kept this three months at home, to drink it with my friend after I finish my military service in early September. Well, not before yesterday we had a good opportunity to make a barbecue on Mosor mountain and try few beers, of course, with this at the end. Had an idea to keep it for the rating #200, but I was already too impatient to wait again.
The beer poured red body with small and short living brownish head. Aroma is sourish in a bit winy and brandy way, but on the other hand fruity with some dark berries, along with hints of orange. Alcohol is introduced also here, just a little bit. Flavor is surely more alcoholic, complex sweet, following those fruits from aroma. Quite full bodied, pleasant but strong charactered, making this an after dinner, slow drinking brew. Low carbonated with oily texture and sweet, very pleasant finish, which is not alcoholic at all but unfortunately quite short. Very strange, interesting, but really nice, like reminding on brandy more than "ordinary" beer. Great winter warmer indeed, so I’m really happy I didn’t drink it until somewhat cooler days...