Background The Springfield Brewing Company has been in downtown Springfield since 1997. The Paul Mueller Company opened the brewery to create a beautiful showcase for their one of a kind stainless steel brewery tanks that are fabricated a few blocks away. …

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During the Prohibition era, speakeasy establishments were referred to as “blind pigs.” The Blind Pig Brewery  owner, Chris Knight said, the “blind” refers to being blind drunk, and the “pig” comes from a ceramic drinking vessel with two nubs on …

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Paul Sayler founded Zero Gravity Craft Brewery at American Flatbread Burlington Hearth in 2004. As production increased, Sayler hired rookie brewer Destiny Saxon in 2008.  In 2012, the duo began brewing beers for consumption outside the restaurant. By 2014 they maxed …

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Background Dialogue Brewing opened at 1501 1st St. NW, in Albuquerque Sept. 2016. It is a venture founded by four business partners, Eliot Salgado, Daniel Goreman, Thomas Groff and Ian LeBlanc.  A percentage of the brewery is also owned by …

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Background – Samuel Adams Brewing The Boston Beer Company “AKA Samuel Adams Brewing” was founded in 1984 by James “Jim” Koch as a limited liability partnership.  Koch’s father and great, great grandfather were both involved in the brewing industry. Koch brewed …

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Background – DESTIHL Brewery DESTIHL Brewery founder, CEO and Brewmaster, Matt Potts received a homebrewing kit from his wife in 1995 while practicing law. He enjoyed brewing beer so much in 1997, Potts and his wife, Lyn, bought a dilapidated building down …

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Chris Martell and his brothers had been brewing beer out of Chris’s garage in Sarasota for a number of years.  One day the stars aligned and all three brothers decided to go all in on owning and running their own brew pub. …

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Background = Greenpoint Beer & Ale OK, its close to NYC, in Brooklyn. Ed Raven has named his latest endeavor, which opened in 2014, for a 17th-century Scandinavian shipbuilder “Dirck the Norseman.” Dirck had acquired 300 acres of what is now …

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Background – Coopersmith’s Pub and Brewing Though prohibition in Fort Collins ended in 1969, the breweries that would become a staple in Western college town culture did not arrive for another twenty years. It was Fort Collins’ status as a college …

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Background Dunedin Brewery was founded in 1995 by Michael Norman Bryant, following his deep passion for home-brewing. Officially brewing by 1996, the first keg to be delivered was an Imperial Brown Ale to Skip’s Bar & Grille in Downtown Dunedin. …

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