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List of oldest companies: Before 1300

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Re: List of oldest companies: Before 1300

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Post by mseebach »

dmayle wrote: post #64
navidfarhadi wrote: post #26

The oldest name on this list that stood out to me is Weihenstephan brewery, founded in 1040 in Bavaria, Germany. They have some of the finest lagers I have ever tried. If you enjoy crisp, refreshing lager beers, I highly recommend their beers. My favorite one is probably the Weihenstephaner Hefeweissbier, followed by the Hefeweissbier Dunkel. Note: I am not affiliated in any way with the company, I just highly enjoy…

Beer nazi here... Hefeweizen/weissbier is not a lager. Lagers are cold bottom-fermented beers. Hefeweizen is warm top-fermented beer.

There's nothing nazi, nor anything really to apologise for, in that. A weissbier, especially a dark variant, is really quite different from crisp lagers. Crisp is not really a word I'd use to describe weissbier at all.

That said, they do make excellent weissbier, and if that style is unfamiliar to you, you're in for a treat.

Re: List of oldest companies: Before 1300

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Post by pwinnski »

ambrosite wrote: post #78
zerr wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The web design company ( http://www.online-media-werbeagentur.de/ ) seems out of business though :)

The copyright date is 2006. It's amazing that a site design like this would have been built as late as 2006. It looks more like something from 1996. Oh, and I just noticed that if you change the language to German, there is a link to a photo gallery: http://www.luebeckaltstadthotel.de/tischbein.htm

That might explain why the web design company is now out of business.

Re: List of oldest companies: Before 1300

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Post by mseebach »

dev360 wrote: post #73
dmayle wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Beer nazi here... Hefeweizen/weissbier is not a lager. Lagers are cold bottom-fermented beers. Hefeweizen is warm top-fermented beer.

They're probably most known for their lagers/pilsener, maybe he meant he also likes their wheat beers?

They're definitely best known for their weissbier - especially historically. Lager/pilsner is only 150 years old.

Re: List of oldest companies: Before 1300

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Post by dragonwriter »

SSLy wrote: post #66

If you squint your eyes just right you could consider the Latin Catholic Church to be one of these.

Well, religious institutions are expressly excluded, so, no, neither the Roman Catholic Church nor the (dominant) subset thereof known as the Latin Rite (either of which might be want is intended by “Latin Catholic Church”) would qualify.

Re: List of oldest companies: Before 1300

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Post by cholter »

As a history buff I would love to see a similar list of these companies filtered down to the ones that are still using the original building. It is so rare that you see centuries-old organizations/businesses/anything that still use the same buildings that they were created with

Re: List of oldest companies: Before 1300

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Post by _geke »

dmayle wrote: post #64
navidfarhadi wrote: post #26

The oldest name on this list that stood out to me is Weihenstephan brewery, founded in 1040 in Bavaria, Germany. They have some of the finest lagers I have ever tried. If you enjoy crisp, refreshing lager beers, I highly recommend their beers. My favorite one is probably the Weihenstephaner Hefeweissbier, followed by the Hefeweissbier Dunkel. Note: I am not affiliated in any way with the company, I just highly enjoy…

Beer nazi here... Hefeweizen/weissbier is not a lager. Lagers are cold bottom-fermented beers. Hefeweizen is warm top-fermented beer.

My mistake. I've always incorrectly grouped them with lagers in my mind, but it does indeed look like they are top-fermented beers.

I'm actually surprised, there are quite a few beer variants that I assumed were lagers that are actually ales, including Berliner weisse, kölsch, and gose [0].

[0] https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/style/

Re: List of oldest companies: Before 1300

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Post by dragonwriter »

jjuhl wrote: post #45

Given that prostitution often claims to be the oldest game in town, it's surprising that there are no brothels in this list.

Even if there were a continuous prostitution enterprise operating over a sufficient timeline (which is not entirely implausible) legal and social acceptance issues would make it unlikely to be a continuous fixed location (brothel) or even a continuous overt business organization.

Re: List of oldest companies: Before 1300

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Post by fcnfan »

ambrosite wrote: post #78
zerr wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The web design company ( http://www.online-media-werbeagentur.de/ ) seems out of business though :)

The copyright date is 2006. It's amazing that a site design like this would have been built as late as 2006. It looks more like something from 1996. Oh, and I just noticed that if you change the language to German, there is a link to a photo gallery: http://www.luebeckaltstadthotel.de/tischbein.htm

They probably changed the room rate and copyright year periodically
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