Sam Adams<\/a> was I again undone by naively thinking that all and only lagers were golden. The path to Beer Nerdery is beset with wonderful re-jugglings of preconceptions like that. I’m also fairly sure that I’m right in saying that this was likely the ‘Stiftsbr\u00e4u’ Dunkel — definitely matches colourwise, and it does have that slightly sweet note, according to people who actually knew what they were reviewing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I have to guess at just which G\u00f6sser beer this is; I had left some of the beers in there and what was once ice was later a few inches of water, and the label floated right off of this one and turned to moosh. Verbatim: G\u00f6sser. At home. Label gone completely. 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