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German Chancellor Angela Merkel drinks beer in a beer tent during a fair in Abensberg, southern Germany, on Sept. 3, 2012. Merkel and her government have insisted that the key to resolving the eurozone's debt crisis is for struggling countries to cut their budget deficits and pursue structural reforms such as liberalizing labor markets.
Taking a short break from worries over the future of the European single currency, German Chancellor Angela Merkel sank a beer at the traditional Gillamoos folk festival in Abensberg on Monday.
Germany's Constitutional Court will hold the fate of the euro in its hands when it rules next week on whether a crucial euro zone financial rescue fund can go ahead, Reuters reports.
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Merkel isn't the only political leader to enjoy the occasional beer. White House employees recently divulged the secret recipes for President Obama's honey porter, honey brown and honey blond ales, allowing cameras into the kitchens to see the process for making the homebrewed beers. Watch a behind-the-scenes video.
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Angela Merkel waves after her arrival in a beer tent at the Gillamoos folk festival in Abensberg on Sept. 3, 2012.
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What do you think the chances are for Mitt Romney to down a beer? How about next to nothing. Chancellor Merkel deserves the Nobel Peace prize for downing that beer. Germany gets a Chancellor with a PhD in physics and we get two shyster lawyers from Harvard.
thats not a large beer in Germany...dur..
Since she is German bet she has been to a Oktoberfest or two in her life. On the other hand never take only one Mormon fishing. He'll drink all the beer you brought. You have to bring two fishing that way they watch each other and leave your beer alone. The same goes for Evangelicals.
I drink about 20 of them when I go out and do karaoke on the weekend.
That is NOT a large glass of beer,it is a NORMAL(look at the other glasses on the tables) glass at a beerfest.
A large beer is be a Stiefel (a large boot,about 3 times the regular beerfest glasses.)..