German Americans especially regarding pastries, meats and sausages, and above all, beer. Frankfurters (or "wieners", originating from Frankfurt am Main and Vienna, respectively), hamburgers, bratwurst, sauerkraut, and strudel are common dishes. German bakers introduced the pretzel, which is popular across the United States. Germans introduced America to lager, the most-produced beer style in the United States, and have been the dominant ethnic group in the beer industry since 1850. The oldest extant brewery in the United States is D. G. Yuengling & Son of Pottsville, Pennsylvania (approximately 80 miles northwest of Philadelphia), founded in 1829 by an immigrant from Aldingen in what
German Institute of Food Technologies where the value of the information becomes most visible. Many production plants are still not yet operating to their performance capabilities. There are many possibilities for process analysis to further improve the quality achieved so far. The "Lower Saxonian competency center for the food industry" (NieKE) is a network of cooperation between the German Institute of Food Technologies, "The Institute of Spatial Analysis and Planning in Areas of Intensive Agriculture" (ISPA) of the University of Vechta, DIALOG - "The Center for Transfer of Information and Technology" at the University of Oldenburg, "the Competency Center Functional Food" (KKF) and "The Research