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Joe Stange: Smoke & Shadow Exploring Lager’s Roots Around Bamberg

Posted by Gerhard Schoolmann on 2014-12-12 05:27:59

stiften = to donate Stiftung = an enterprise or organisation (most: non-commercial) that gets the money from the "Stifter" (people that donate). The word "Stift" is in the historic language of the carpenters a small piece of wood. It was used as a nickname for young, small men in the first year of their education (the majority in the age of 15, 16 years old, after 9 or 10 years school). Later this word (plural: Stifte) has been used for all young men and women in their handcraft education. The official word has been: Lehrlinge (apprentice). Actual the official word is "Auszubildende" (Google translates to trainee). Lehrlinge / Auszubildende particiates in the so-called "Duale Berufsausbildung" ("dual vocational training"). They get a contract and their wage from an enterprise, working and learning there and visiting a vocation school for some months (sometimes a day per week or coherently some weeks/months per year . These vocational schools are specialised for handcraft brances. For brewers a such school is located in Karstadt. So they get apprentices from a great environment). For other branches with more apprentices You can find vocational schools in many cities. . Berufsschule Main-Spessart in Karlstadt, with an own brewery for learning. http://www.bs-msp.de/ where the owner of the Bamberg home brew RobesBierre works as a teacher.

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OT: History of Eschawo by barry on  2014-12-12 06:03:53