Business: Makes Schell and Grain Belt beers
Based: New Ulm
Founded: 1860
Website: www. schellsbrewery.com
Executive: Ted Marti, the fifth generation of his family to head the business
Employees: 44 full time, 20 part time
2006 revenue: $9.9 million, on track for $11 million this year
Just as Lawrence Kazmerski, a top official at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, was about to give the keynote address at the University of Minnesota's annual E3 conference at the RiverCentre in St. Paul, the lights went out, bathing the audience in darkness and a deep sense of irony.
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