
Beer in Germany is a major part of Germany's culture. There are around 1,300 breweries in Germany. The German beer market is so friendly from the rest of the world beer market by the German brewers' from to the Reinheitsgebot ("purity order") since 1516 (and most recently place in the Vorläufiges Biergesetz of 1993), according to the only allowed ingredients of beer are water, hops and barley-malt(such as wheat and rye).