Bill?
05-11-2005, 10:14 PM
Pope Benedict XVI gives thumbs up to beer
POSTED: Wednesday, May 11, 2005 4:17:11 PM
UPDATED: Wednesday, May 11, 2005 5:01:24 PM
VATICAN -- You might think the new pope would prefer water or wine, but Pope Benedict XVI has given the thumbs up to … beer.
Thanks to the pope, a German brewery is enjoying new success thanks to his “endorsement.”
A Stuttgart brewery had been struggling to sell its wheat beer, until pictures showed then -Cardinal Ratzinger enjoying the brew every once in a while.
So when the new pope was elected, white smoke not only emerged from the Sistine Chapel, but from the brewery’s chimney as well.
This past weekend, the brewery sent a beer truck to Rome delivering 185 gallons of beer to the pope.
http://www.wkyc.com/news/news_fullstory.asp?id=34727 (http://www.wkyc.com/news/news_fullstory.asp?id=34727)
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POSTED: Wednesday, May 11, 2005 4:17:11 PM
UPDATED: Wednesday, May 11, 2005 5:01:24 PM
VATICAN -- You might think the new pope would prefer water or wine, but Pope Benedict XVI has given the thumbs up to … beer.
Thanks to the pope, a German brewery is enjoying new success thanks to his “endorsement.”
A Stuttgart brewery had been struggling to sell its wheat beer, until pictures showed then -Cardinal Ratzinger enjoying the brew every once in a while.
So when the new pope was elected, white smoke not only emerged from the Sistine Chapel, but from the brewery’s chimney as well.
This past weekend, the brewery sent a beer truck to Rome delivering 185 gallons of beer to the pope.
http://www.wkyc.com/news/news_fullstory.asp?id=34727 (http://www.wkyc.com/news/news_fullstory.asp?id=34727)
http://www.wkyc.com/assetpool/images/05511162415_POPE-BEER2.transfe_lgr.jpg