Germany: dark beers recommendations

In message , bruce snipped-for-privacy@my-deja.com writes

You cant really go wrong with any Alt beers you find but this is more of a 'me too' post, particularly Koeln. I'll be slipping across the border from Belgium sometime between the Grand Place beer affair in Brussels and the following weekends

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Thanks, Rob.

One word of warning. On recent holiday I purchased some random dark beers from supermarkets assuming they would be to normal German purity standards. Alas no. A few beers are now having buckets of sugar added, resulting in a fowl, sickly gloop. They are quite strong in alcohol though and I would doubt dark beers attracts the yoof market, so not sure why these beers exist. Perhaps they always have, but I've never stumbled upon them previously.

You can tell from list of ingredients what to avoid.

David

This sounds like the awful "Sweetheart Stout" that I once tried a can of in Edinburgh.

Never actually saw anyone else buying any of that, either...

Henry

Thanks very much for that. I'll check it out.