>I was chatting with a friend last night, she was saying how when she was in Paris, the waiters kept plying her with different types of wine to taste, when what she really wanted was a beer.
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>We then ruminated on our inability to name a single French beer... not one. The French *must* have a beer industry, don't they? Maybe they just don't export anything...

Just like the Czechs didn't export. The domestic consumption was more than sufficient. Except their beer is excellent.