European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 27, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Brj amols a. Markham new York ii Vav As a i. Ack Day Lor   ii Niiori   incl in 11 10 High Wiull Raj Hart Rioin Finol Toj Cir old Fruch if Vorn in Colo Fjor thu  in in Laul Cluster discussing Tho re Winn  court in i  j. .1 13 in Dree panel fad Coder a five Voglr i Iio Rel aeon West Germany and its european Community partners by ruling that y is known. Now the customer must decide said Karl Behring who like his comrades wore a Blue sweater Black lie and Xiluo Smock to have the Best Beer in Cologne and maybe in the world. I have been a Kotsch Drinker All my life and will always be  us Kotier Are tamed Lor their repartee and wit and Behrens made a Small rhetorical leap to Dvo Home his Point Kolsch. He said belongs 1o Cologne Itka the Cathedral and Iho Rhino. Whoever disowns his Beer will lose his Homeland " this Pithy thought conveyed some sense of the passion Ltd ii lies behind Tho quarrel Between Germany and the dec Over boor. For lha Beers tha Are produced by 1 .200 breweries in the Federal Republic Ore the objects of intense local patriotism whether it be the bavarian tossing Down his Backmier in a heavy Slein or a Russo Milor sipping his Alt in a thin Glass. In opining its Canso Bolero lord Mac Kinzio Stuart the English chief i fido in Luxembourg lawyers Lor the Federal Republic went to far As to argue thai Beer Lor germans was far More than alcohol consumed for pleasure i was Tho lawyer Cmil ended a Basic source of almost a third of the null Iona ingested by Iho citizenry the dec Raitio Goiman is reckoned to put away 146 a this it brer ,1  in Bavaria which has a third Oltha Nalion 3 Tir Wenos Iho figure is said to reach 250 liners for a void Man woman and Chad in View of those extraordinary consumption Levels Iho Gorman lawyers maintained that pc milling foreign Beers and their dubious additives into me Federal Republic could endanger the Well being of ils inhabitants Lorenz Niegel. A Deputy of the bavarian Christian social Union a physician and a defender of the Region s beleaguered agricultural interests sounded this argument in almost sacramental terms our Beer is our fluid Broad Bui no one knows what elects this new chemical Beer can have on Iho body Over a Long period of time " but lord Mackenzie declined to accept this argument. Saying that the rules of the Community did nol permit a Zombor stale to Cement consumption habits in order to protect an advantage Lor Domestic Industry Tho a Nash judge ruled Hal West Germany was permitted to demand appropriate Labelling on imported Loreign Beers by nothing that would convey a Neva be View of them. Additionally said lord Mackenzie. West Germany could ban additives that posed genuine dangers to people s health binding by the results of International  the Case against the  was fou Fuhl by a  exporter. Ii was supported by Tho european commission in Brussels which noted that Wesl Gorman exc Ertes violated their own purity regulations by putting additives in Beer Lor Export the Federal Republic a the world s second biggest Beer exporter after the Netherlands. Like an army tailing Back to a better defensive line the pow Raul German Beer lobby is taking Steps to preserve its Noa monopoly Whilo omitting family no sous sounding warnings that no Good German will be tempted by Iho newfangled Amon can French or japanese brands Klaus Emmer Marin. An of Lucial of Iho German brewery federation no cd Hal Iho  Dill applied to 4,000 Domestic Breve which would remain pure " Tho Gorman Brewers am no really afraid of inc Competition since to Honvo very  Beer drinkers who will not Arfow themselves to be changed. Insisted Emmermann whal Iho Brewers Are worried about is the reputation of  nonetheless Tho Brewers federation has found in prudent to launch a $640.000 advertising Campaign in most of West Germany s newspapers to remind Boer drinkers Hal German Beer will continue to and Horn to the  the edict is thought to be one of the oldest hygienic regulations in Europe still having the Lorte of Law. On supermarket shelves. Gorman Beers will have a considerable Edge Over the foreign Johnny come lately by bearing a prominent Seal saying they conform to Duke Wilhelm s command. And Tho 1.800 supermarkets of inc Ruji