Coors Brewing Company

The Coors brewery was founded in 1873, just west of Denver, Colorado, by the twenty-six-year-old German immigrant Adolph Coors and his partner, Jacob Schueler. Coors invested $2,000 in the venture and Schueler added the remaining $18,000 needed to purchase the eleven acres where the brewery first was built. In 1880, Coors, the proud father of his first child, a daughter, bought out Schueler; brewing production had doubled by 1887, when Coors’s children numbered six and the brewery was rolling out seven thousand barrels of beer a year.