Contrary to popular cliche, beer in Germany doesn’t come out of the kitchen faucet. In fact, it’s going into fewer glasses these days. Germans are drinking less of the sudsy stuff and brewers are getting alarmed. <br />
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For foreigners, the old stereotype about a German social event has a bunch of rather portly Germans in lederhosen sitting in a beer garden listening to oompah music, each with a stein full of frothy beer in front of him.<br />
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Well, few people drink out of the steins anymore — except for tourists, and the occasional politician, at Oktoberfest — and more frequently these days where Germans are relaxing, you’re almost as likely to see a glass of wine or a cocktail sitting in front of them instead of a beer.<br />
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