I purposely picked my hotel so I could visit this brewery, and I was not disappointed. The place is spacious and airy and the people there are incredibly friendly and welcoming. I sat at the bar and spent most of my time talking with Matt who was bartending and is also the assistant brewer.
Mercury is named after the Roman God. In fact, it logo used to be the side profile of his head, complete with the signature bowl hat with wings was used during the early years until around the early 1950s.
When it came time to propose a moniker, he suggested naming it for his patron, King George III, which would have made it Georgium Sidus, or George's Star. But the name was not widely appreciated outside of England. Herschel, after its discoverer, was also suggested, as was Neptune.. Ultimately, German astronomer Johann Elert Bode named the planet after an ancient Greek god of the sky. Bode argued that as Saturn was the father of Jupiter, the new planet should be named for the father of Saturn. (Uranus is also the only planet to be named after a Greek god rather than a Roman one.) Bode's colleague, Martin Klaproth, supported his choice and named his newly discovered element uranium..