Bayern Brewing Knöller’s interests in brewing began when he was a teenager in Bavaria, Germany. Since the original owners and Knöller were raised in Bavaria, Germany, the name of the brewery stems from their home, as Germans call Bavaria, Bayern. Jürgen Knöller graduated from Doemens' Masterschool for Brewing and Soft Drink Technology in Munich, after nine years of professional training. After Knöller graduated in 1987, he was hired as the Master Brewer in the newly founded Bayern Brewing in Missoula, Montana. Jürgen Knöller bought out the original owners in 1991 and has been running and operating Bayern Brewing ever since. Bayern practices
Central German Metropolitan Region Central German Metropolitan Region The Central German Metropolitan Region () is one of the so-called metropolitan regions in Germany. It is centered on the major cities of Leipzig and Halle, extending over Central German parts of the states of Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia and Saxony. The Central German metropolitan region is the only one located entirely within the former East Germany. Due to its poly-centric nature, it is not actually one metropolitan area in the geographic sense of the word as an agglomeration of nearby urban areas, rather it is a registered association, the "Europäische Metropolregion Mitteldeutschland e.V" whose membership is composed