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The Virtual Beer Garden was conceived when two friends, Ryan Dunn and Eli Marcus, attended the Realizing the demand for quality designed sites on breweries and brewpubs, they decided to gather as much information on beer as they could, and make it available to the world. The People Ryan Dunn was born and raised in San Diego, California. In 1991, bored with school, Ryan left college to pursue a career as a luthier.  As the sole employee of Dunn Custom Guitars, he quickly came to the understanding that the extra hours he worked had cut into his beer appreciation time. In the summer of 1994 he left his love for wood on the workbench to pursue a carreer in the computer industry. After one excruciating year as the night operator at GERS Retail Systems, he followed a friend's advice and relocated to the Bay Area. Ryan currently resides in Mountain View (Silicon Valley), where he is employed at OneChannel.net. Eli Marcus attended  the University Of California, Hastings College of the Law. Prior to law school, Eli lived in Los Angeles where he completed a Masters of Business Administration. Entrenched in the educational system and fearful of a nine to five job, Eli saw opportunity in the Virtual Beer Garden. Finally a setting where he could use the skills that his education had most prepared him for, BEER. (Editor's note: Eli is really just a wooden puppet. Roll your mouse over his picture, and you'll see what we mean.)The Vision The vision of the Virtual Beer Garden is to provide the most up to date beer related information available on the Web. Our commitment is to produce beautifully designed web pages while providing quality information on the American Beer Renaissance, and the tradition that the art of brewing is built on. |
