The first brewer, tested as a question: none found

Tested span 1837–1919; first-hand strength 1875–1881

There is no first brewer to name, and the test that returns that answer prints with it. Chapman's 1880 census of the town's business — two large dry-goods establishments, two boot-and-shoe stores, one drug-and-hardware store, one grocery-and-hardware store, one planing-mill and manufacturing establishment, one gristmill, one millinery store, one butcher shop, one barber, four practicing physicians, three churches, and one schoolhouse — names no brewery, no saloon, and no liquor dealer. The 1875 atlas's directory for Liberty Township (pp. 94–95), read first-hand from the atlas's Archive.org text, lists the township's trades whole — millers, the Manufacturing Company's officers, wagon makers, a carriage painter, four blacksmiths, a hotel, a restaurant — and no brewer, brewhouse, saloon, distiller, rectifier, or liquor dealer appears in it; a full-text search of the whole atlas for "brewer" returns only a South Bend passage and "Farmer and Brewer" entries in other townships, none in Liberty. (The atlas text carrier is OCR-degraded; spelling-level facts carry that caveat, and the directory's page images are the settler.) Polk's 1880–81 gazetteer entry and its classified lists, read, name no North Liberty brewer either; and the standard brewery references carry no historic North Liberty house — the county's historic names in them are South Bend and Mishawaka houses. The negative's tested span is 1837–1919, at directory-and-county-history strength for 1875–1881 in the first hand and at reference-list strength for the remainder. Its settlers, for any stronger claim: the North Liberty News run, and the 1920s Polk gazetteers not yet read first-hand for this town — both named gaps in this build's register.