Schloss Fastenbier

The beer

Record

Eggenberg Schloss Fastenbier Non Alcoholic is the alcohol-reduced take on Fastenbier — the “Lent beer” bock tradition of Brauerei Schloss Eggenberg, the oldest family-owned brewery in Austria, brewing commercially at Vorchdorf in the Salzkammergut since 1681. BeerMenus’ US-market listing carries it as a non-alcoholic lager at 0.5% ABV, while BeerAdvocate’s older entry for Fastenbier shows 0.38% and classifies it as a low-alcohol beer; the record stores the exact figure as at-most 0.5% with both sources flagged, to be settled against the physical label when the bottle is opened. The brewery’s own current online lineup centers its NA range on Freibier (its European Beer Star gold-winning alcohol-free lager), and Fastenbier NA does not appear on the brewery’s Web pages accessed, so the beer sits in the export/specialty channel in the US. The bottle was purchased at Total Wine’s Chantilly VA store in November 2026 at $11.99 for a planned tasting. No bottle image appears on the directories accessed; none is used here. It has not been tasted, and it has no score; the tasting record will follow when the bottle is poured.