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The Weihenstephan Brewery of Freising, Bavaria, high atop the hill of Holy St. Stephen, may be the world's oldest, as it can trace its roots at the Weihenstephan Abbey to the year 768, when a document makes reference to a hop garden in the area paying a tithe to the Benedictine monastery. However, the brewery was actually licensed there by the city of Freising in 1040, and that is the founding date claimed by today's modern brewery.The monastery closed in 1803 during Napoleon Bonaparte's secularization of Bavaria, and a forestry school from Munich moved into the empty buildings in the autumn of that year. The brewery, however, continued to function, becoming a possession of the State of Bavaria at that time.
Renamed the Bavaria State Brewery Weihenstephan in 1923, it is now operated in conjunction with the Technical University of Munich as both a state-of-the-art production facility and center for learning, one of few such beer institutions in the world, and it is this combination of tradition and custom, proven knowledge and modern science, that gives the brewery its unique identity. Known for quality beer over quantity, the brewery today produces a range of pale lagers and wheat beers, such as Vitus, a light-colored, spicy single-bock wheat beer, for both beer lovers and the beer connoisseur. Other varieties include Hefe-Weissbier, Hefe-Weissbier Dunkel, Kristall Weissbier and Original Lager.
Much has changed around the world in the last thousand years, and more is sure to come in the next centuries, so it's nice to know that good beer remains constant.
For more info: Weihenstephan brands are distributed in the Nashville area by R.S. Lipman Co. Be sure to request them at your favorite bar.
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