European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 8, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The dark Beers that Are the Centrepiece of Munich s 16-Day festival Are All Stout with a minimum mall Content of 16 percent and alcohol Content ranging up to 9 percent. Dark Beer flows during 16 Days of annual Munich festival  Bowden. Munich Bureau ". Just when one oho thinks the folks in the bavarian capital have sallied Down trading in the Cra irises of a Schmo Lor the respite of ". Lent Tho Calendar s Page flips to March,.arid non econies  literally dark t dec Lime " although generally called Tho Strong Beer Fesl by. Americans the 16-Day period that t segari March 3 and Lea hues the dark. Double Barie sied Bock has none of inc usual  a Munich lost. Thorp Are no rides giant her Lens or parades and the wily stiff show is the one Otten  those who have Over Esler Natch their ability to handle the Frothy fuel o the monks Strong Beer also known As Doppel Bock dates to a period when a group of haitian monks Irani the order i St. Francis of Paula moved Inlo an old monastery on. Royal land on the outskirts of old Munich. During Tho 40 Days of Lent railing was rigorously observed but to. Keep themselves from wasting away legend has in the a ranks in Iho Early,1600s began brewing a particularly Strong version of Boch Bear that had its origins in no intern Germany about 300 years earlier Tho Beer of the Paulaner monks was thick Strong and supposedly tilled with calories and protein to help sustain Idem through the period of fasting. It became known locally As Dopple Jock but the monks referred to Ilas Savator alter their Saviour. Eventually the monks were granted a brewing License. Still later they received a License to sell their Stout product to the thirsty Public. Today Tho brewery is in secular hands and Pau Foner is one of Iho major Beer producers in Bavaria and Allol. West Germany. Bui the Strong Beer festival is geared to that particular Type still known As Salv Alof. And while most other Brewers offer their own version the focal. Point in Munich rests on the no Cherberg Hill that. Overlooks Tho Isar River. Thousands of merry makers Jam the confines of the ancient Salvator Ketler to test their Mettle with liners of specially brewed Tequid. For those who can t get into the normally crowded confines of. The Silvalo Kellor Doh l despair wore Man 120 types of Beer Are made in Germany that Bear the Distin live razor Label in Munich Lor example the. Augustine brewery offers Max Mator Hacker Pschorr has animator. Staten Iho optimal or. Lowenbraun the i Tutu Palor. And the City s Hof bauhaus mafioso do locator. All of them Are Stout with a minimum mall Content Al 16 percent and alcohol Content ranging up to 9 percent. The lest continues through March 19. For information Contact the cily Louric 6r ice in the main train station tel.089-2391256. A10urgroup from Germany Sci costly visited our country and could a l Knoeri and whal All she Roopla was about Over America the food was i easy Las vegas noisy Iho grand Canyon overrated and Disneyland Ovici Poco in t in amazing that people can come to our country irom All Over the. World and miss seeing the no 1 ally action Usi we pc what they should Tje capturing on win Luying Nichols and standing in Lino to lice you it Ihrk i hey d question How a diver Sinyol language Lood Bac Kyound politics ideology dross economic level religion morally and opinion could survive in a single country and How when you add to that diversity the Freedom to speak acl protest and Challenge there would be anyone left standing Hie you d hink they d wonder How the Lourah largest area in the world could suddenly turn Inlo  when a child gels caught in a Well or three whales gel trapped in ice off the coast of Alaska. There is a uniqueness in this country s people that is Best described by the Story of a visitor to hell who saw thousands of people sitting around each holding 3 fool chopsticks and trying without . Oat the food  of them they were starving to death when the visitor entered heaven he saw thousands of Happy Well led people. They. Loo. Had 3-foot chopsticks but they had figured out thai in order to Gal at the Lood they had to hold the chopsticks and leed one another. Ivis led the  a while Back and noted their curiosity was High on How americans filled All the gaps left by our government. Tho word to Unte Elsm. Did not translate 1 tried compassion " i 1od them in was. The common  transcended differences and brought us All together As one  loud Sis arid the soviets should have known about iwo friends of mine one from the North the of her a southerner. One is a Democrat who is a High Prowe career woman the Olfier a Republican stay at Home Mother. One marched m Washington Lor the right of Choice the other marched in Washington la reverse tha Roc is Wado decision. Wharf i Learned that one of these ". Friends was to have a  because of cancer i called inc other Friend who had had the same stagers she cared hot immediately to encourage her to enlighten to listen to cry Wilh her the two women still have not met each other. They Aro both Well and May lace off As adversaries somewhere Down Iho line. But during a week in january 1989. They were simply iwo women hanging onto each other Lor strength. Thana our uniqueness knowing when to differ and knowing when to stand together. C 1961 ainu Page 16 the stars and St Lopes wednesday March 8,1989