Day 7: Germania Premium Strong

Finally.

Poured thick and golden, not much head or carbonation, little to no hop aroma, hints of vanilla and something woody. 7.9% ABV.

Rich tasting, with toffee and vanilla notes. Lingering aftertaste that amplified those flavours. I want to say the woodiness was an oak taste. That might be true or it might be that because this beer reminds me of an Innis & Gunn without the smokiness, I'm looking for the same oak notes.

Good stuff. I've mentioned before that I like Innis & Gunn. I suspect that if I could get this Germania brew in a bottle or on tap somewhere I might like it even better.

I took the top half of this down fairly quickly, then decided to savour it in the hot tub. The time it took me to get out there allowed the beer to warm a bit, and that was a good thing. I decided to go all the way with a warming experiment and actually submerged most of the glass in the warm water to heat things up a few degrees. Wow. Should have done that right off the start. If I had another can of this, I wouldn't even refrigerate it. The flavours both intensified and blended, and the finish smoothed even further.

Excellent beer. Abundantly flavourful though there was nothing exotic about said flavour. 8 steins!