In 1995, the late former chairman of the Tatung Company, Lin Tingsheng, correctly assessed that the Taiwanese government's alcohol and tobacco monopoly was entering its swansong, so he recruited Professor Duan Kow-jen of the Department of Bioengineering at Tatung University to look into beer production.
話說 1995 年，大同集團已故董事長林挺生看準菸酒開放是遲早之事，於是要求大同大學生物工程系教授段國仁著手研究啤酒釀製。