There are the typical golden styles like pilsner, or pils, and dark versions such as dunkel.

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Try the CK Jasne (a pale, wheaty beer) or the CK Dunkel Wiezen, a dark beer with a yeasty flavour.

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Andreas Dunkel of the Technical University of Munich deconstructed the molecules present in a high-value Italian wine, finding some 82 taste-active compounds that were responsible for the wine's distinctive taste.

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It has a rustic Bavarian wooden interior, great service, pumped-in oompa music and a thirst-quenching beer list with gems like the citrusy Dentergems Wit from Belgium and malty dark wheat Dunkel Weisse.

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But analysis has shown that just 35 of those compounds in varying proportions could be used to effectively reconstruct the taste of any one of the wines Mr Dunkel's team has studied.

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