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Generation C · People

People as sourced roles, not invented biographies.

Brewers, scientists, organizers, lawmakers, and historical figures appear only to the depth supported by Beer Universe sources and relationship records.

  • 12 people
  • role/tenure aware
  • biography boundaries explicit

brewer · founder

Arthur Guinness

Brewer associated with the 1759 St James’s Gate lease and the founding history of Guinness.

lifespan not asserted

homebrewer · association founder · organizer

Charlie Matzen

Co-founder with Charlie Papazian of the American Homebrewers Association in 1978.

lifespan not asserted

homebrewer · author · association founder

Charlie Papazian

Co-founder of the American Homebrewers Association in 1978 and a central participant in modern U.S. homebrew culture.

lifespan not asserted

mycologist · physiologist · brewing scientist

Emil Christian Hansen

Carlsberg Research Laboratory scientist whose pure-culture yeast work was put into production in 1883.

lifespan not asserted

brewer · founder · philanthropist

J.C. Jacobsen

Brewer who established Carlsberg in 1847, the Carlsberg Research Laboratory in 1875, and the Carlsberg Foundation in 1876.

lifespan not asserted

president · public official

Jimmy Carter

U.S. president who signed H.R. 1337 on 14 October 1978, including the federal home-beer tax exemption.

lifespan not asserted

chemist · educator · founder

John Ewald Siebel

Chemist who founded a Chicago laboratory and zymotechnic institute in 1868 that developed into the Siebel Institute of Technology.

lifespan not asserted

brewer

Josef Groll

Brewer credited by Plzeňský Prazdroj with brewing the first batch of the new Pilsen beer at the Burghers’ Brewery on 5 October 1842.

lifespan not asserted

brewer · founder · homebrewer

Ken Grossman

Founder of Sierra Nevada Brewing Co., which began in Chico in 1980.

lifespan not asserted

chemist · microbiologist · researcher

Louis Pasteur

French scientist whose 1876 Études sur la bière connected brewing problems to microbiological fermentation research.

lifespan not asserted

designer

Walter Landor

Designer identity used only for Smithsonian-attributed beer package-design relationships in BEU012.

lifespan not asserted

duke · historical ruler

Wilhelm IV of Bavaria

Bavarian duke associated by the official Bavarian source with the beer provision issued at Ingolstadt on 23 April 1516.

lifespan not asserted