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.
Some scholars have suggested that the reason the planet was named after Venus and not a male god was because it was the brightest of the five visible planets that were known to ancient astronomers, so they named it after their most beautiful deity.