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George Stranahan (1931–2021), physicist who founded Flying Dog Brewery
George Stranahan was a physicist and rancher who founded Flying Dog Brewery, one of the largest craft breweries in the U.S.As a young physicist – and the wealthy heir to the Champion Spark Plugs fortune – Stranahan founded the Aspen Center for Physics, which decades later remains a vibrant research center. Twenty years later, Stranahan made a much different kind of business venture, opening the Woody Creek Tavern near Aspen, Colorado, which became notable as a regular hangout for journalist Hunter S.
