Spaten is spade (not spit) in German. Therefore the trademark of that beer is a... you guessed it... spade!
I guess that`s one beer Kramer from Seinfeld won`t be drinking.
Hey speaking of Spaten, if you ever seen that movie Saving Private Ryan, the part when the German and the American get into the knife fight in the building and the German wrestles the knife away and slowly sticks it into the Americans heart, while doing it the German says something about Spaten. I always thought it was bizarre because maybe he was talking about the beer, maybe saying "After I kill you I`m having a beer?" Now you say it means spade, can it mean he was talking about the beer also? Or maybe he was saying he was going to bury him with a spade. Either way, that was the sickest scene in that movie.