In 1986 Dan Kenary, Rich Doyle, and George Ligeti received Brewing Permit #001 for Harpoon Brewery. They had a warehouse on the Boston waterfront and the brewing equipment, and then found Russ Heissner as head brewer. Russ started formulating the recipe for Harpoon Ale in …

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Background-Black Project Brewing James & Sarah Howat began production at Black Project Brewing, originally Former Future Brewing Company in January 2014. James, the head brewer, began experimenting with coolship ales and barrel aging. Utilizing a coolship captures microbes from the environment …

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On our travels we are in search of good craft beer. It is always an added extra to find decent craft beer in interesting places.  Kelly’s Brew Pub in Albuquerque is definitely an interesting place full of classic American midcentury …

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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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John and Adriana Bikis opened Royal Docks Sept 5, 2015. Both natives of Romania, Adriana grew up in Chicago and John in the Canton area, graduating from a local high school. The idea to open a brew-pub came during the two …

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