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Shortly after he arrived in Milwaukee, Frederick Miller paid $8,000 for the Plank-Road Brewery -- a five-year -- old brewery started by Frederick Charles Best and abandoned in 1854. Miller became a brewery owner in an era when beer sold for about $5 per barrel in the Milwaukee area and for three to five cents a glass at the city's taverns. The Plank-Road Brewery -- now the Milwaukee Brewery -- was several miles west of Milwaukee in the Menomonee Valley. It proved ideal for its nearness to a good water source and to raw materials grown on surrounding farms