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So I finally made myself drink the alchol-free beer I accidentally bought. I must admit: I threw most of it away. It just didn’t taste nice. I guess it sort of tasted like a watered-down lemonade, except someone used burnt wheat instead of lemons. How anybody can get addicted to this stuff is quite beyond me.

My alcohol consumption is very limited. In recent years, I only indulged in some wine when I was in France, or when I got to travel business class on an intercontinental flight. (And then there was this one night in a hotel in Thailand, but that’s another story.) As a teenager, I never drank any alcohol at all. This is easily explained: There was a case of alcoholism in my family (an uncle), so I had a good close-up view of what alcoholism does to people. And my fellow pupils at school served as another negative example.

Anyway, since I have now lived in Munich for half a year, I thought it was time I should at least give beer a try. Since I already know I will not become addicted – I can barely force myself to drink the stuff – and don’t get drunk too easily, I figured I might as well integrate into the local Bavarian culture and at least see if I would like beer at all. People look at you a bit oddly here when you tell them you don’t drink beer.

So last week I bought two bottles of beer. Picked random brands, but something I knew to be Bavarian. Today I considered drinking one of them. And found out I had accidentally bought alcohol-free beer.

Can you spell “fail”?

I still didn’t drink the stuff. It’s amazing how deep old habits run.