What is Brewery?
[[Image:The Brewer designed and engraved in the Sixteenth. Century by J Amman.png|right|thumb|260 px|A 16th century brewery]] A '''brewery''' is a building, where [[beer]] is made or a business ('''brewing company''') whose trade is the production and sale of beer. Breweries can take up several city blocks, or be a collection of equipment in a [[homebrewing|homebrewer's]] kitchen. The [[:wikt:diversity|diversity]] of size in breweries is matched by the diversity of processes, degrees of [[:wikt:automation|automation]], and kinds of beer produced in breweries. Typically a brewery is divided into distinct sections, with each section reserved for one part of the [[brewing]] process. The oldest brewery in the world still in operation is believed to be the [[Bavaria]]n State-owned brewery [[Weihenstephan]], found in the [[Germany|German]] city of [[Freising]], which can trace its history back to 1040. Although the Zatec brewery<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.zateckypivovar.cz/indexa.html |title=Žatecký pivovar |publisher=www.zateckypivovar.cz |accessdate=2009-02-25 |last= |first= |archive-date=2008-11-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081102205142/http://www.zateckypivovar.cz/indexa.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> in the Czech Republic claims it can prove paying beer tax in 1004. == References == {{Reflist}} {{Commonscat|Breweries}} * {{ISBN|3-921690-39-0}}: ''Technology Brewing and Malting'', Wolfgang Kunze, 1999, 2nd revised edition, VLB Berlin. Available at [http://www.vlb-berlin.org/english/index.html their website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060820124048/http://www.vlb-berlin.org/english/index.html |date=2006-08-20 }} * {{ISBN|3-921690-49-8}}: ''Technology Brewing and Malting'', Wolfgang Kunze, 2004, 3nd revised edition, VLB Berlin. Available at [https://www.vlb-berlin.org/cms/front_content.php?idcat=31&idart=267 their website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061009041825/https://www.vlb-berlin.org/cms/front_content.php?idcat=31&idart=267 |date=2006-10-09 }} * [