New POPE Redefines "Spirit"

Pope Benedict XVI gives thumbs up to beer
POSTED: Wednesday, May 11, 2005 4:17:11 PM

VATICAN -- You might think the new pope would prefer water or wine, but Pope Benedict XVI has given the thumbs up to … beer.

Thanks to the pope, a German brewery is enjoying new success thanks to his "endorsement."


A Stuttgart brewery had been struggling to sell its wheat beer, until pictures showed then -Cardinal Ratzinger enjoying the brew every once in a while.


So when the new pope was elected, white smoke not only emerged from the Sistine Chapel, but from the brewery's chimney as well.


This past weekend, the brewery sent a beer truck to Rome delivering 185 gallons of beer to the pope.