Nuremberg. A long decline in beer consumption in Germany since 1995 was stopped by a 1% increase for the first nine months of 2002, compared to the same period last year. During the period Germans have drunk 83.2 million hl of beer, according to the German union of the medium-sized private brewers said at the European beer and beverage fair Brau Beviales, in Nuremberg. Beer-based mixed drink consumption increased by 33% year-on-year to 2.4m hectolitres in the period January to September 2002. German beer consumption has been decreasing by average 1.9 pct annually since 1995.

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