Schloss Eggenberg Samichlaus schwarzes

 Schloss Eggenberg Samichlaus schwarzes.

14% ABV Doppelbock,  Schloss Eggenberg Brewery, Oberosterreich, Austria.

I’ve been sitting on this beer for two years. Bought it in late 2021, when it was already five years old. Time to drink and write. 

Utterly ebon, thoroughly opaque, rich, large head that quits quickly. 

In the nose: coffee and cocoa, dates and figs, immeasurable malt. Char and smoke mingle with the chocolate. 

In the mouth: luscious, thick and viscous, and altogether sweet, but not too. Caramel and toffee. Big and rich, super powerful. Whoa, I should not be up all night, drinking this. But, I am and I am grooving. 

This one held up very well after seven years. 

The newest edition to the Samichlaus line up is a Schwarzbier. Also brewed on December 6th, and aged for 10 months, Schwarzbier means “black beer” in German. It has flavors of spicy rye, dark oak and subtle smoke that balances quite nicely with more bittering and aroma hops than in prior versions of Samichlasus. Bittersweet and complexity is what this new amazing recipe is all about.