 So popular were the games and the zaniness, that CBS Nightly News, CNN and National Public Radio reported on them.While he served as the general manager of the Muskies, Janus was working on developing a small, local brewery.At the time (1983–84) there was a mere handful of new local breweries in the U.S. Janus and his partners decided to create authentic German beers such as might have been brewed in Wisconsin early in the century.