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Article: American Craft Brewers Unite to Celebrate Benjamin Franklin's 300th Birthday.
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- Business Wire
- Article date:
- January 3, 2006
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BOULDER, Colo. -- Approximately 100 American craft breweries from 35 different states join together in celebrating the 300th birthday of Benjamin Franklin this month. They do so with Poor Richard's Ale, a beer brewed from a common recipe in recent weeks at scores of breweries all across America.
"To our knowledge, a single recipe has never been produced in unison by so many breweries," said Ray Daniels, Director of Craft Beer Marketing for the Brewers Association. "The unity of this effort by so many different businesses in such a wide range of states echoes the coming together of the original colonies to form a new nation under Franklin's influence."
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