Long before I lived in Japan I lived in Germany; in a region called Mittel Franken (Middle Franconia), which is in the north west part of Bayern (Bavaria)
(below: is a map of Bavaria, and the brown part is Middle Franconia ↓)
My village was tiny, much too small to have its own bier brauerei , but there were plenty of other places which did. Down in the valley from us was the town of Lichtenau , which (at that time)had been making beer almost continuously for well over 500 years (with a brief interuption here or there for the occasional war or outbreak of plague). The brewery was located in a castle. To this day I still miss the Lichtenau Hefeweizen (wheat beer). German wheat beers have the yeast at the bottom, and after you pour most of the contents out you leave just a little so that you can roll the bottle and dissolve the yeast - which you pour into your beer to cloud it up and give it its distinctive taste. Germans refer to beer as "liquid bread", and thanks to the local beer purity laws, it is very wholesome indeed!
Check out some of the franconia breweries here: http://www.bambergbeerguide.com/breweries.asp
Freistaat Bayern
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