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2025-08-02 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

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Posted by badanov 2025-08-02 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [151 views ] Top

#1 Muslims now make up about 6.6% of Germany's total population. Beer sales have dropped 6.3%

Could there be a correlation?

Posted by NN2N1 2025-08-02 06:17|| 2025-08-02 06:17|| Front Page Top

#2 ^

Posted by Procopius2k 2025-08-02 08:43|| 2025-08-02 08:43|| Front Page Top

#3 Next OctoberFest will feature tea served by an endomorph dressed in a veiled duvet cover.

Posted by Super Hose 2025-08-02 10:36|| 2025-08-02 10:36|| Front Page Top

#4 Could there be a correlation?

On the same side of that coin, if women don't feel safe going out, they don't go out. Lot of guys go out to see and flirt with women, so no women those guys stay home. They all staying home playing video games, they are not drinking, if at all, like they would out playing bar games.

Also, the wider availability of alternative recreational feelz.

Growing popularity of healthy lifestyle? Please.

Posted by swksvolFF 2025-08-02 12:12|| 2025-08-02 12:12|| Front Page Top

#5 Mohammed got it all wrong. Beer is one of God's gifts to humanity. Beer is good. Just because a few people can't handle it doesn't mean it should be denied to everyone.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2025-08-02 13:59|| 2025-08-02 13:59|| Front Page Top

#6 Beer is (and will remain) classified as "staple food" in Bavaria. Thou shalt not worry.

The oldest brewery still in existence in the world is the Bavarian State Brewery Weihenstephan. It was founded as a Benedictine monastery brewery in 1040 and is located on Weihenstephan Hill in Freising, about 40 km from Munich. Surrounded by the still young Weihenstephan Science Center of the Technical University of Munich, this creates an interplay between tradition and modernity.

We have Duke William IV of Bavaria and his brother Louis X to thank for the fact that beer brewed in Germany has been subject to the Bavarian Purity Law since 1516. Beers brewed in accordance with the Purity Law may therefore contain no ingredients other than water, malt, hop and yeast.

The Bavarian brewing tradition based on the Purity Law was even declared an intangible cultural heritage of the Free State of Bavaria in 2015.

Again: Don't worry.

Posted by European Conservative 2025-08-02 15:45|| 2025-08-02 15:45|| Front Page Top

#7 Excellent factoid! Thanks EC !

Posted by Besoeker 2025-08-02 18:10|| 2025-08-02 18:10|| Front Page Top

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