George Aman was born in Bavaria.  He emigrated alone at age 20 on October 23, 1854 on a ship named the Milwaukee.  He settled in the Territory of Wisconsin in the town of Beaver Dam.  In 1859 he became junior partner with Charles Schutte in his Farmers Brewery on Madison Street.  They dissolved their partnership in 1864.

It was a crowded field for brewers in Beaver Dam.  It was a town of only about 3000 people yet it already boasted two well-established and sizable breweries.  Nonetheless Aman sought to establish his own firm under his own name. He bought two lots west of Goeggerle's brewery and moved an old Sash factory onto them then converted the building into a brewery.  He was up and running by the summer of 1864.  But the business apparently did not suit him and in July of 1866 he sold out to partners Berthold & Schmidt for $5000.  In September the brewery burned to the ground and Aman kept the unpaid deed for the now empty lots.  George Aman never returned to the brewery business.

In 1868 Aman married Anna Kraus, and with that they began a new life.  In 1868 he sold the land to his brother-in-law Frank Xavier Steil, who rebuilt the brewery on the ruins of the old one.  Steil ran the brewery for fifteen years until fire once again claimed the business.

Aman and Anna relocated to a farm in Westford Wisconsin.  In 1885 they moved again to Kossuth County Iowa, where they lived the rest of their lives.  Anna died on January 17th, 1908.  George followed her on the 2nd of October.  He was 69 years of age.

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