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beer restrictions ponder stibbons - 22/04/2004 06:17:36 AM

Do you like drinking beer? Do you think german beer is good? Are you a football (or soccer, if you are American) fan? Are you therefore looking forward to World Championships 2006 in Germany? Well, you might face a little drawback then. Especially if you don't like American Budweiser beer. Because that will be the only stuff available in the stadiums and the vicinity.
It sounds like a bad joke, but it is true. In the land that is generally associated with beer (although we are only third concerning consumption per head) local breweries are not allowed to sell beer in or around the stadiums, because the FIFA has an exclusive contract with US brewery Anheuser-Busch, whose best known brand is Budweiser.
I don't want to judge American beer in general or Budweiser in particular here because I never drank any, but I know people who did and they all say it can't compete with the European stuff. Plus I regard importing beer from overseas into a country with sufficient facilities to provide local beverages of the same (if not better) quality as nonsense.


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Budweiser? - 22/04/2004 06:22:13 AM 28 Views
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Beer does not taste good from a paper cup... *NM* - 22/04/2004 06:53:27 AM 6 Views
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another location plan... - 22/04/2004 08:02:53 AM 6 Views
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no offence meant ... - 22/04/2004 08:13:42 AM 5 Views
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and go home saying we've done europe, it was so sweet *NM* - 22/04/2004 08:29:28 AM 4 Views
Yup, that's the ones *NM* - 22/04/2004 08:32:14 AM 2 Views
Nectar fromm the gods, man *LOL* - 22/04/2004 07:21:41 AM 6 Views
To expand... - 22/04/2004 07:24:28 AM 5 Views
It's one of my pet hates - 22/04/2004 07:14:43 AM 8 Views
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You have got to be Beeping joking - 22/04/2004 06:26:18 AM 17 Views
thanks, I won't *NM* - 22/04/2004 06:35:47 AM 2 Views
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Bud!?! - 22/04/2004 07:08:48 AM 12 Views
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german beer is alright - 22/04/2004 10:00:52 AM 7 Views
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That is not good. - 22/04/2004 02:00:29 PM 6 Views
*is waiting...* - 22/04/2004 03:43:10 PM 5 Views
Sorry to heat that. - 22/04/2004 10:34:54 PM 3 Views
it may be light... - 23/04/2004 02:08:56 AM 2 Views