Beer is a food.
It's an old axiom that was reinforced to me when I learned my trade in the liquor industry. After all, beer doesn't age well like wine and has a definite shelf life.
I don't think this saying is more applicable than it is for German beer. For enjoying a brew from the home of beer can safely be described as like having a meal in a glass. Many an afternoon after wandering the streets of German towns while backpacking I trundled into a pub to kill the hungry/thirstys. And a German beer - it didn't matter which one - would always do the job.
So it is I'm doing the very same with an old favourite, Erdinger Wiesbier this very night. First introduced to this one by a former German girlfriend, I fell in love with the full-bodied experience (the beer, not the girl I'm afraid). There were so many flavours, many of which my under-developed palate could not distinguish. But a hint of banana I did detect.
Safe to say, the flavour hasn't changed after all these years and it remains a delicious choice for beer lovers. Splash out sometime and enjoy an imported German beer, zose crazy Germans really know what they're doing.
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