About 10 years ago, when I was first breaking away from megaswill and searching for real beer, Warsteiner seemed to me like a really tasty Pilsener with lots of character.
For the last several years, I've been drinking other Pilseners, like Czechvar and Pilsener Urquell. Recently I bought a six pack of the Paulaner premum lager. Then, remembering how good Warsteiner tasted, I brought home some for the first time in a long while. But it tastes curiously bland, and looks paler than the other lagers.
Is it just my imagination, or has Warsteiner begun down the same road that Anheuser-Busch started traveling many years ago, morphing good Pilsener into dishwater?