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In 1914, Bavarian immigrant Kosmos Spoetzl landed in the German-Czech farming community of Shiner, Texas, 90 miles east of San Antonio, by way of eight years working at the Pyramid Brewery in Cairo, Egypt. Acquiring the local Shiner Brewing Association, he launched a legendary Texas beer using his secret family recipe and local pure artesian well water.
Donald and Mary Thompson met in Tangiers, Morocco, in 1972. They were young Americans Donald a Florida native and Mary a Texan traveling abroad with their respective college roommates. The quartet hit it off. In particular,