The first German immigrants came to North Carolina in the 16th century. Centuries later, they are still contributing.
At any rate, something is scaring many folks away from the German stuff. But there's a lot of pleasure to be found in German beer, and it's time to get comfortable with the beer styles you'll run ...
I was once talking to a German friend and I was trying to tell him that I had been in a desert, Wüste, but it came out as Würste, sausages. This needed a bit of explaining.