Question: Triangle Brewing Co. (TBC), began selling beer on which date, a microbrewery owned and operated entirely by business partners, Rick "the Brewer" Tufts, apprenticed at Flying Fish Brewing Company and was an avid homebrewer, brewing of beer on a small scale for persona, long before founding a new brewery?
Context: Homebrewing is the brewing of beer on a small scale for personal, non-commercial purposes. Triangle Brewing Co. (TBC) is a microbrewery owned and operated entirely by business partners (and high-school friends) Rick "the Brewer" Tufts and Andy "the Bloke" Miller, who have recently resettled in Durham, North Carolina from Connecticut.  Andy Miller had extensive local restaurant management experience, and Rick Tufts apprenticed at Flying Fish Brewing Company and was an avid homebrewer long before founding a new brewery.  TBC began selling beer on July 4, 2007 and was the only microbrewery in Durham.  The arrival of a microbrewery in Durham is arguably part of the current downtown art, building, and cultural Renaissance. Christian Moerlein Brewing Co. is a private beer company that began production in 1853 in Cincinnati, Ohio by German immigrant Christian Moerlein.  Before closing its doors in 1919 as result of prohibition, Christian Moerlein was among the ten largest American breweries by volume.  In 1981, the brand was revived by the Hudepohl Brewing Company as a "better beer" a precursor to the current craft beer category and is considered a pioneer craft beer of today's craft beer movement.  In 1999, Hudepohl-Schoenling Brewing Co. sold out to a group of out-of-town owners, a sale that included the famed Christian Moerlein craft beer brand.  In 2004, Greg Hardman a Cincinnati resident purchased Christian Moerlein, as well as 65 other historic Cincinnati brands, returning local ownership to Cincinnati in a move that included a plan to return Cincinnati's grand brewing traditions.  The four phase plan was, 1) return the local ownership of Cincinnati's great beer brands to Cincinnati; 2) build their base of sales to; 3) open local brewing operations in the heart of Cincinnati's historic Brewery District and; 4) open a World-class Moerlein Lager House on the banks of the Ohio River to act as a signal that beer is back in Cincinnati. Shipyard Brewing Company is a brewery and soft drink manufacturer in Portland, Maine, USA, and founded in 1994.  Shipyard is the largest brewer in Maine (owning the Shipyard, Sea Dog Brewing Company, and Casco Bay Brewing Company banners, and bottling under contract with Gritty McDuff's Brewing Company).  Shipyard is the fourth largest microbrewery in New England after Boston Beer Company, Harpoon Brewery, and Magic Hat Brewing Company. Mill Street Brewery is a brewery in Toronto, Canada that is a part of Anheuser–Busch InBev.  During its first decade of operation, as an independent brewer, Mill St. won several awards including Golden Tap Awards for Best Toronto Microbrewery ('04-'08) and Best Toronto Beer (for Tankhouse Ale: '04-'07), and was named "Canadian Brewery of the Year" at the Canadian Brewing Awards in 2007, 2008, and 2009.  It was purchased in 2015 by Canadian brewer Labatt Brewing Company, which in turn is owned by the global brewing giant Anheuser–Busch InBev. Beer Wars is a 2009 documentary film about the American beer industry.  In particular, it covers the differences between large corporate breweries, namely Anheuser-Busch, the Miller Brewing Company, and the Coors Brewing Company opposed to smaller breweries like Dogfish Head Brewery, Moonshot 69, Yuengling, Stone Brewing Co., and other producers of craft beer.  Also covered is how advertising and lobbyists are used to control the beer market, implying that these things harm competition and consumer choice. The Booth Brewing Co. is a microbrewery headquartered in Seoul, South Korea.  Sunghoo Yang, a former investment analyst, Heeyoon Kim, a former Korean medicine doctor, and Daniel Tudor, a journalist for The Economist founded the brewery in 2015, after operating a pizza pub since 2013 [].  They acquired the brewing facility in Eureka, California, previously owned by Lost Coast Brewery, in 2015.  They are well known for Taedonggang Pale Ale, a collaboration beer with Danish microbrewery Mikkeller, and also for being the second foreign craft brewer to produce beer in their own facility in the United States. A brewery or brewing company is a business that makes and sells beer.  The place at which beer is commercially made is either called a brewery or a beerhouse, where distinct sets of brewing equipment are called plant.  The commercial brewing of beer has taken place since at least 2500 BC; in ancient Mesopotamia, brewers derived social sanction and divine protection from the goddess Ninkasi.  Brewing was initially a cottage industry, with production taking place at home; by the ninth century monasteries and farms would produce beer on a larger scale, selling the excess; and by the eleventh and twelfth centuries larger, dedicated breweries with eight to ten workers were being built. The Pabst Brewing Company ( ) is an American company that dates its origins to a brewing company founded in 1844 by Jacob Best and was, by 1889, named after Frederick Pabst.  It is currently the holding company contracting for the brewing of over two dozen brands of beer and malt liquor from now defunct companies including Pabst Blue Ribbon, P. Ballantine and Sons Brewing Company, G. Heileman Brewing Company, Lone Star Brewing Company, Pearl Brewing Company, Piels Bros., Valentin Blatz Brewing Company, National Brewing Company, Olympia Brewing Company, Falstaff Brewing Corporation, Primo Brewing & Malting Company, Rainier Brewing Company, F & M Schaefer Brewing Company, Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company, Jacob Schmidt Brewing Company and Stroh Brewery Company. Heavy Seas Beer is brewed by Clipper City Brewing Company, in Baltimore, Maryland.  The brewery was established by Hugh Sisson in 1995.  Previously, Sisson operated Maryland's first brewpub, Sisson's.  In 2010, the brewery rebranded.  While the name of the company remains Clipper City Brewing Company, all of its beer falls under the Heavy Seas brand.  Heavy Seas hosts tours on most weekends.  It is located at 4615 Hollins Ferry Road, Suite B, in the Halethorpe section of Baltimore.  Heavy Seas currently offers a variety of beer styles in approx. 18 states within the United States.  Several Heavy Seas beers have been awarded and include the following: Cutlass Amber Lager (a repeat medal winner at the Great American Beer Festival from 2006-2010, bronze medal winner at the 2010 World Beer Cup and silver medal winner at the 2012 World Beer Cup as Heavy Seas Märzen), Powder Monkey Pale Ale (silver medal winner at the 2008 Great American Beer Festival and bronze medal winner at the 2010 World Beer Cup as Heavy Seas Pale Ale), Small Craft Warning Uber Pils (bronze medal winner at the 2004 Great American Beer Festival), Gold Ale (gold medal winner at the 2010 World Beer Cup, bronze medal winner at the 2010 Great American Beer Festival and bronze medal winner at the 2014 Great American Beer Festival as Heavy Seas Gold Ale) and Winter Storm Imperial ESB (gold medal winner at the 2008 World Beer Cup).
Answer: July 4, 2007