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There are probably few brewers in the craft-brewing industry and even fewer homebrewers that haven't read one of Greg Noonan's books or articles on beer and brewing," Steve Bradt of Free State Brewing Co. said in announcing the Scherer Award. "Through his writing and his work with other aspiring brewers, Greg has been a selfless contributor to the advancement of the craft and the industry for the past two decades."

Noonan opened the Vermont Pub and Brewery along with his then wife, Nancy, in 1988 after spending three years lobbying the Vermont legislature to legalize brewpubs. Like many who would soon be commercial brewers, Noonan started out making beer as a hobby at home. He was working as a manufacturing manager for paper and wood product companies in Massachusetts when news of microbreweries opening on the West Coast helped him decide to open a brewery in Vermont.

Because there was little literature available for small-scale brewers, he literally ended up writing what was the book. He presented a manuscript to Charlie Papazian at a 1984 homebrewers conference and that became the first book from Brewers Publications, a division of Papazian's young Association of Brewers (now the Brewers Association). Brewing Lager Beer: The Most Comprehensive Book for Home- and Microbreweries was a guidebook for those opening small breweries in the 1980s and 1990s

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