<P> 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 is today Baden - Württemberg; the brewery's flagship product remains a 19th - century German - style amber lager . By the late 19th century, Milwaukee, with a large population of German origin, was once the home to four of the world's largest breweries owned by ethnic Germans (Schlitz, Blatz, Pabst, and Miller) and was the number one beer producing city in the world for many years . Almost half of all current beer sales in the United States can be attributed to German immigrants, Capt . A. Pabst, Eberhard Anheuser, and Adolphus Busch, who founded Anheuser - Busch in St. Louis in 1860 . Later German immigrants figured prominently in the rebirth of craft brews following Prohibition, culminating in the microbrew movement that swept the U.S. beginning in the late 1980s . </P> <P> German and German - American celebrations, such as Oktoberfest, Rhenish Carnival, German - American Day and Von Steuben Day are held regularly throughout the country . One of the largest is the German - American Steuben Parade in New York City, held every third Saturday in September . There are also major annual events in Chicago's Lincoln Square neighborhood, a traditional a center of the city's German population, in Cincinnati, where its annual Oktoberfest Zinzinnati is the largest Oktoberfest outside of Germany and in Milwaukee, which celebrates its German heritage with an annual German Fest . Many of the immigrants from Germany and other German - speaking countries came to Pennsylvania to what was then "Allegheny City" (now part of the North Side of the City of Pittsburgh). So many German speakers arrived, the area became known as "Deutschtown" and has been revived as such . Within Deutschtown and since 1854, The Teutonia Männerchor has been promoting and furthering German cultural traditions . </P> <P> Skat, the most popular card game in Germany, is also played in areas of the United States with large German American populations, such as Wisconsin and Texas . </P> <P> The following German international schools are in operation in the United States, serving German citizens, Americans, and other U.S. residents: </P>

German immigrants in the 18th century primarily settled in which colony