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Beloved Beer

Germans, Yankees, & Prohibition

by George F. Wieland

posted 9/30/2009

Germans have long enjoyed and venerated alcohol. When the Irish missionary Columbanus first encountered Germans in the early seventh century, he happened on a ritual sacrifice of beer.

 
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