According to official statistics published on Thursday, though Germans may be famous for their beer, domestic sales of the amber nectar slumped last year to their lowest level since 1989.
Sales of German beer, which include the //world-famous Becks, Warsteiner and Bitburger, dropped to just under 100 hectolitres (2.2 billion gallons) in 2009, a fall of 2.8 percent on the previous year.
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Peter Hahn, from the German Brewers Federation, said he hoped the World Cup in South Africa this year, would once again spur Germans to enjoy a few ales.
"We hope that the weather this year will again play ball, that Germany does well at the World Cup and that plenty of people go to the pub or beer garden to watch the matches with a good beer," Hahn said.
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A longer-term trend towards less manual work and more office-based employment had also reduced Germans' after-hours thirst, the federation said.
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