worldwide reputation as beer-slurping pub-goers, domestic beer sales have been declining for years - but brewers have a plan to change that.
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They are also praying for good weather, which would bring football fans outside to barbecue. That is usually accompanied by more beer consumption, the paper wrote.
Sales rose in 2006, when the Germans hosted football