1979: Ken Grossman and Paul Camusi hit up the latter’s family for a hundred large and founded Sierra Nevada brewery, so named because that was Grossman’s favorite place to hike […]

1759 Arthur Guinness signed a 9,000 year lease on a brewery at St. James’s Gate in Dublin. Cost: £100 ($145-ish USD) down, and £45 ($65-ish USD) per year afterward. The […]

The story of Murphy’s Brewery began in earnest in 1854, when James Jeremiah Murphy sold his distillery and, along with his four brothers, bought the Cork Foundling Hospital in Cork, […]