Silicon Valley's First Beer Startup
Silicon Valley, long known as a tech town, got its first brewery when Palo Alto Brewing Co. opened its doors. (Photo courtesy Wonderlane via Flickr...
Silicon Valley, long known as a tech town, got its first brewery when Palo Alto Brewing Co. opened its doors. (Photo courtesy Wonderlane via Flickr ) In 1967, Kenneth Kolence co-founded one of the world's first computer software companies. It was headquartered in the San Jose, California, area that would by the start of the next decade become known as Silicon Valley because of the amount of technology firms based there. About 13 years later, Kolence co-founded one of the nation's first microbreweries, also in Silicon Valley, which is marking its third annual beer week starting July 24 .