Spaten is a Munich based brewery which makes many different kinds of beers including Franziskaner, which I'm also a big fan of, so I decided to try their flagship lager. Cool bottle, especially since I like green beer bottles, very German sounding name and a slightly higher ABV than is common for this type of beer. In fact, upon inspecting the bottle I found this:
It's technically considered a malt liquor!!
Oh man, could this be any more awesome? 5.2% is a little higher than the average 4% or so for this type of beer. When I tasted it I immediately thought it tasted like a "fancy malt liquor." Those were my exact thoughts. It tastes somewhat strong, but it's not overpowering like Hurricane or anything like that. It's very smooth, but at the same time you know it at least somewhat means business. It also has a very malty flavor, which makes sense as I read somewhere that this was supposed to be Germany's answer to Czech beer. Overall I think Spaten is very good and I would definitely try it again, and I'm sure I'll be trying more varieties of it also such as the Oktoberfest.
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