Santa Claus beer
Beer mat with the logo of the Santa Claus beer
Once a year - on St. Nicholas Day - the Samichlaus beer is brewed and stored for over 10 months before it is bottled. Samichlaus beer has 14% alcohol and 28.5 ° original wort . It is filled in 0.33 l designer bottles with an embossed print by Schloss Eggenberg .
"Samichlaus" is the Swiss name for Saint Nicholas . The beer was originally brewed by the Hürlimann brewery in Zurich . After it was taken over by Feldschlösschen in 1997, however, it was closed and the Samichlaus beer was no longer brewed. The trademark rights were sold to the Austrian brewery Schloss Eggenberg in Vorchdorf , which has been producing the beer again since 2000.