Talk:Beck's

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How many calories, carbohydrate count and outright sugar content is contained in Beck's Beer?

It has to be noted, that the clichès played on by the St. Pauli Girl brand are utterly wrong. While the girl is shown as being Bavarian, St. Pauli is actually a part of Hamburg, in the North of Germany. While we are in general very tolerant in Hamburg, there are a few things that are totally unacceptable. Being depicted as Bavarian is one of them. Interesting, how a GERMAN brewery got this wrong. Maybe it's because the brewery is based in Bremen, we also don't like the people there.

TOT UND HASS DEM HSV!!! <- Is that right? Definitly!

No, it's wrong. "Tot" means "dead"; you want "Tod", which means "Death". Moreover, the HSV rules. 82.32.65.149

Not to mention... isn't St Pauli the Hamburg red lights district? what's the thing with naming a beer after that kind of place, and marketing it as "prestigious"? Is that trying to prove that yankees are morons or something? As for the girl on the label being Bavarian... since the beer is for export and Bavarion traditional dress is the best known in Germany, I'd guess it's just trying to improve logo recognition, not a deliberate (or stupid) insult to Hamburg folk. ----Svartalf 15:53, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

There is a bavarian girl on the bottle because the St Pauli Brauerei (which was aquired by Becks) was supposedly built on top of St Pauls monestary (in bavaria) after whom the part of Hamburg was named.... well.. and what Svatalf said..

[edit] Lager, Weissbier and Becks

I've just removed some major nonsense from this page; I probably haven't gone far enough. Problems with the previous content:

It suggested that the typical South German beer is Weissbier, rather than Helles.

It suggested that Becks, in the North, further developed Pilsener.

It ignores the fact that Pilsener bases on the Bavarian tradition, and that the differences in the water allowed it to be so light.

In fact, I don't see any reason to mention any of this. Becks is a typical German Pilsener-style beer, like others in the north more hopped than in the south, but not really very different. Jever, also from the north, is probably a better beer. Groogle 08:43, 5 December 2006 (UTC)