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The Coors Brewing Company is an American brewery and beer company based in Golden, Colorado, that was founded in 1873. In 2005, Adolph Coors Company , the holding company that owned Coors Brewing, merged with Molson , Inc. to become Molson Coors . [ 1 ]
The fifth born and third surviving child was Adolph Coors Jr., on January 12, 1884. Bertha Coors was born on June 24, 1886, and Grover C. Coors was born in 1888. The last addition to the family, Herman Frederick Coors, was born on July 24, 1890, while the family was on vacation in Berlin.
In the 1950s, Coors requested $250,000 from his father, CEO Adolph Coors Jr., to build an experimental line of aluminum cans. By the early 1960s, can recycling was viable, and the company offered customers a one-cent deposit on returned cans. Coors was elected to the board of directors in 1973.
Coors Light is a 4.2% ABV light American lager beer sold by Coors (currently Molson Coors) of Chicago, Illinois. It was first produced in 1978 by the Coors Brewing Company . They had briefly produced a different low-alcohol beer by the same name in 1941.
Molson Coors Canada is part-owner of The Beer Store in Ontario (Brewers Retail Inc.), operating as a beer distribution and retail chain, which (protected by legislation) has an over 85% market share of the total Ontario industry beer sales. Molson Coors Canada owns 50% of Brewers Distribution Limited in Western Canada.
AP, Michael Conroy The two heavyweights of the beer industry are going to war over cans. Anheuser-Busch InBev (BUD), the brewer of Budweiser and Bud Light, didn't like the latest ads for Coors ...
Coors Connection: How Coors Family Philanthropy Undermines Democratic Pluralism (1990). Dansky, Eli. "Coors, Adolph" American National Biography (2003) online; Downard, William L. Dictionary of the History of the American Brewing and Distilling Industries (1980). Kostka, William. The Pre-Prohibition History of Adolph Coors Company 1873–1933 ...
The oldest can in the collection is a Krueger Ale can from the 1930s which is similar to the first beer can ever produced in 1935. On display as well are older cone tops (such as a Brockert Ale "J-Spout" can from Worcester, Massachusetts , and a Star Banner Ale cone top from Boston) and obsolete "flat top" cans from the early days of beer can ...