Spaten Premium

I was in a store standing in front of beer and staring at it, as I often do. Waiting for one of them to speak to me. Waiting for that little voice to call out, “Drink me, Jerry! Driiiiink meeee!”

Instead, this distinguished looking fellow named Bari kind of reached around me and grabbed several beers, and said, “Do you like a good German beer?”

“Yes, I do,” I said.

“Try the Spaten. It’s wonderful.”

We chatted about beer, and about Germany, and about German beers, and I revealed I was in fact going to be in Germany this month, and he told me a few beer stories about his time being stationed there. I ended up handing him my GroovyMojo Media card and he handed me his … he’s a Senior Intelligence Analyst who works for an organization I’m not sure I should reveal. So, I won’t.

Homeland security and all, you know. Loose lips sink ships. Etc.

And so now here, a week or so later, I sit at home sipping on this beer, and I have to shout out a thanks to Bari for pointing this one out to me.

It’s a nice break from the dark chocolaty malty beers I usually suck down like a thirsty sailor. It’s smooth with a light body, strong but subtly so, the taste predominately a well-balanced hoppiness gliding over the zing of some energetic crystal-tasting malt. This is a endurance beer, one you can drink a lot of.

Do I like German beer? Yes! They make a wonderful beer, putting a lot of time and love into it.

And even though I’m only going to be in Germany for four hours, you can bet I’m going to be soaking up as much of their wonderful draft brew as I can…

…and then spending a lot of time in the airplane restroom all the way to the Land of Nokia.

Spaten is hereby deemed a groovy brew, and give it a modest but well deserved 3.2 on the Holy Grail Scale.