Historic Beer Birthday: Bert GrantDribbbleEmailFacebookFlickrGitHubInstagramLinkedInPinterestRSSTwitterYouTube

Historic Beer Birthday: Bert GrantDribbbleEmailFacebookFlickrGitHubInstagramLinkedInPinterestRSSTwitterYouTube

Today would have been Bert Grant’s 97th birthday, and he is still definitely missed. Bert opened the country’s first brewpub in 1982 in Yakima, Washington and was a fixture in the industry until his death in late July of 2001. Join me tonight in lifting a pint to Bert’s memory. Here’s his obituary from Real Beer: Craft brewing pioneer Bert Grant, who founded the first modern day brewpub in the United States, is dead at 73. Grant had been ill f…