Together they founded in East New York a typically German brewery, to be conceived on modern and scientific principles.

Funds came from several sources, including the New York arts program of Beck's, the German brewery.

"You know," he winked at me, "this building used to be a German brewery."

Almost half of all German breweries are in Bavaria.

The late 1990s saw to the re-launch of Baltic porters by several German breweries.

German breweries are very proud of the Reinheitsgebot, and many (even brewers of wheat beer) claim to still abide by it.

German breweries, however, cling to the principle.

It is quite a change in a city that had nine German breweries when the Civil War broke out.

Even today, many brewers are proud of the Reinheitsgebot; most German breweries say they follow it.

It exported in 1887 as one of the first German breweries in the United States.