Extra Credit Questions

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This next piece of historical and trivial pursuit is being posed first to Joe Beckert for an answer. If he has not responded by 6 pm tonight (Friday, September 26), it is open to everyone. This is something that should be known by every red-blooded American (LOL):

What is the oldest continually operating brewery in the United States. In what year did it begin business and where?

I won't promise a keg, but maybe a six-pack to the winner...