{"id":154639,"date":"2025-03-25T00:01:59","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T00:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/recipes\/category-a-b\/beer\/beer-birthday-hugh-sisson\/"},"modified":"2025-03-25T00:01:59","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T00:01:59","slug":"beer-birthday-hugh-sisson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=154639","title":{"rendered":"Beer Birthday: Hugh Sisson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"text\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"34\" height=\"50\" src=\"https:\/\/brookstonbeerbulletin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-2099.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-88282\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>Today is the 71st birthday of Hugh Sisson (March 11, 1954- ). He founded <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hsbeer.com\/\">Heavy Seas Brewing<\/a> in Baltimore, Maryland in January of 1995, though officially its name is the Clipper City Brewing Co. But he\u2019d been dabbling in beer long before that, starting with running Maryland\u2019s only craft beer bar in 1982 with his father. In 1986, he helped get his state\u2019s laws changed to allow brewpubs, and opened Sisson\u2019s Brewpub. Wanting to focus more on the beer, het left the brewpub behind and started Clipper City, rebranding it in 2010 as Heavy Seas, since those were his most popular beers. I\u2019ve only run into Hugh a few times over the years, but first visited Clipper City in 1998, when GABF On the Road was in town. 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