The Club serves non-alcoholic Bavarian beer to a wealthy, young, secular crowd, among whom "Headscarves are frowned upon."

"If you do have to wait," she said, "then drinking fresh-brewed Bavarian beer is one of the nicer ways to kill time."

"I'm so damned drunk on this Bavarian beer, it's sure to be a down trip."

Let's have some of this good Bavarian beer.

Your evenings are spent in superb 3 star mountain hotels where you can enjoy hearty German cuisine and relax with a Bavarian beer or two.

With alcohol concentrations of 4.5% to 6% by volume, dunkels are weaker than Doppelbocks, another traditional dark Bavarian beer.

Today many Bavarian beers are again brewed using wheat and are thus no longer compliant with the Reinheitsgebot.

At the time, this was termed a Bavarian beer, since bottom-fermentation first became popular in Bavaria and spread from there.

Bavarian beer had an excellent reputation, and Bavarian brewers were considered the masters of their trade.

Other officials promised that Mr. Yeltsin would face some tough questions along with the food, the Bavarian beer and the blandishments.