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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.

well, first of all, St. Pauli Girl is in fact not mentioned after the Hamburg City district but after the st. paul's monestary on whose ground th brewery was founded. Secondly the dress style didn't only exist in bavaria (southern Germany) but similar in northern Germany. Today this dress style has completely vanished in northern Germany and is now only connected with southern Germany. As the brewery of St. Pauli Girl had been founded in the 17th century the dress style hadn't vanished than. Third: Hamburg people are openly minded, as long as one regards them beeing the "best". And last but not least you should get your facts right before posting.

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"?

As mentioned above the beer is not named after the Hamburg district but after a St.Paul's Monestary. That could be prestigious, couldn't it? ;-)

Is that trying to prove that yankees are morons or something?

No. This dress style has once been (centuries ago) famous in northern Germany as well. Not in the extravagant style like in bavaria but in a more reduced style. That one looks like the one on the beer.

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)