Munich is Germany’s beer town, a self-styled city of brewers and a mecca for the millions who descend yearly on the Oktoberfest to raise stein after stein of the city’s famous lager. Beer is served there at breakfast, lunch and dinner, or as a meal in itself. But increasingly, as reporter Valerie Hamilton tells us, when Munich cracks open a cold one, it’s non-alcoholic.
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