Becks - Spitzen-Pilsener von Welt

Located tight in downtown Bremen, is Beck's Brewery, home to the Beck's and Hakke-Beck's brands. Certainly you've heard of Beck's, but maybe not Hakke-Beck's. Hakke-Beck's is a local north german brand, with a sharper taste and more head, due to the increased proportion of hops in the beer. For those unaware of how beer is made, the longest standing german food law, called Reinheitsgebot (or German Beer Purity Law) requires that beer is made using only four ingrediants: water, yeast, hops, and barley (although barley may be replaced by wheat for wheat beer). Yeast was not originally included in the law because it's effects were not known.
We were led through a tour of how beer used to be made, and how it is now. Two notable points: Beer was supposedly discovered when a woman living near the desert left bread out in a bowl, which filled up with rain water and then sat in the sun for a while, a dehydrated man later stumbled out of the desert, and desperate for a drink, drank the bread-water...thus discovering beer. A second interesting fact is that a large temperature drop is required to drop beer, making it impossible for beer to be brewed in the summer before ice became readily available.
The tour continued with a look at the silos where the raw materials were kept. I've included a picture of one of the beer holding silos, which, at one beer a day would last a person....any guesses? Nope, 5000 years, by which point, I'm pretty sure it wouldn't be beer anymore.
The tour ended with a taste-testing of two unidentified beers out of three choices: Beck's, Hakke-Beck's, and Beck's Non-Alcoholic Beer. I was able to correctly identify the beers as Hakke-Beck's on the left and Beck's on the right. We were then able to sample various brands of Beck's and Hakke-Beck's (one of mine tasted exactly like gingerale), which are unfortunately not available in the states.

PICTURES OF BECK'S HERE!