Schloss Eggenberg Urbock Dunkel Eisbock

my 1st rating with my new PDA (nokia 810). 330ml bottle. pours a dark, reddish-brown. creamy eggshell colored head. Aroma of fresh pressed cider, figs, rich malt, dried fruit, & cherries. flavor is big malt and lots of heat. Tastes of dried fruit, cherries, chewy wort. Big alcohol and a perfect bitterness. Heavy bodied, chewy texture. Rich, full, and nicely balanced. This is an excellent dunkel and a textbook eisbock.

Had this one two years ago from limited edition 2 l bottle.
Sweet alcoholic malt and roasted coffee aroma with notes of caramel, nuts and chocolate. Bitterish and pleasant warming alcoholic finish.

Pours a clean deep brown colour, almost no head but with some brownish bubbles. It has some artificial sugary smell, with caramel, plums, cinnamon and dark fruits. Body is lighter than I expected. Taste of apple, dark fruits, plums, sherry wine or brandy. Good one, have to give it another try.

Bottle. Malty nose, loads of light roast earthy caramel with red berry, grain, and a hint of smoke, though a not strong one. Am expecting big stickiness out of this one. Amber-brown body with no head as of this pour. Full body but not syrupy, taste is dark and malty with a bit more grain than expected, woody with perhaps a bit of oat, and without the usual Eisbock grape-twinge. This has a hard, masculine chomp to it; dries out and allows the caramel to become more prominent, though on the whole, not very complex. I much prefer its cousins and brothers, though this may have suffered to fatigued palate and long shipping distances. Aftertaste is dry and tobacco-inflected. Deceivingly alcoholic, and smooth and warming, with much the effect a fine cigar might be expected to have – filling and deeply satisfying. I can’t decide if this is stale or the hoppiness is deliciously dark – and that indecision is keeping this from a 4.0+.

11.2oz bottle-pours a disappearing light tan head and mahogany color. Aroma is very sweet medium malt-caramel, dark fruit-cherry/plum/prune/raisin, slight woody spice. Taste is very sweet medium malt-caramel, dark fruit-cherry/plum/prune/raisin, slight woody spice, some alcohol. Syrupy-medium body, winter sipping.