Brews You Can Use

What's Bavaria known best for? Beer, and now the pope. It's fitting that a brewer in Pope Benedict's former village, Marktl am Inn, has started to sell Pabstbier: Pope Beer. Link. Excerpt:

Beermaker Wolfgang Bohm said he went to bed Tuesday trying to find a way to pay tribute to the best of Bavaria--the pope and beer. Most Germans could appreciate his quest for something akin to a holy ale, Bohm said as he looked at the crowd gathered outside a beer stand he set up near the town church.

"Papstbier," Bohm said, touching a brown bottle with a freshly printed label. "I think you'd have to say it's worthy."

Hey, if you get us some, we'll drink it. In the meanwhile, we'll keep cracking open PBRs.