Coors Brewing Company
Adolph Coors and Jacob Schueler opened the brewery in 1873 in Golden, Colorado, at the foot of the Rocky Mountains; Coors took sole ownership in 1880. Beer was first sold in 1874, while current brand material dates the Banquet recipe to 1876. The Golden site is the largest single-site brewery in the world and still malts its own barley. Coors Light followed in 1978, Keystone in 1989. Since the 2005 merger with Molson the brewery belongs to Molson Coors.
Beers by Coors Brewing Company
7 beers
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The recurring character behind the beers
Coors Brewing Company brew within a single family — the differences sit in how, not what.
Across these 7 beers, 4 notes keep showing up:
Four notes carry across the range. That's a tight house style — most breweries in the catalogue share just one. 3 of them come through every single beer.
Compared with the wider catalogue of similar styles:
They stay close to the peer baseline on their recurring notes.
How we measure this
Two thresholds are at work here:
- The signature list shows notes that recur in at least 6% of this brewery's beers. A low bar — enough to flag a pattern, not high enough to call it an exclusive trait.
- The peer comparison below shows only notes where this brewery's coverage differs from similar breweries by at least 20 percentage points. A higher bar — enough to call a real difference, not a nudge.
A note can appear on the signature list without appearing in the peer comparison: it recurs here, but similar breweries do the same thing.
Coors Light
Their beers place in the Top 29% of the catalogue on average, across 6 ranked beers. Consistent rather than spiky — no single standout carrying the rest.
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About Coors Brewing Company
Adolph Coors and Jacob Schueler opened the brewery in 1873 in Golden, Colorado, at the foot of the Rocky Mountains; Coors took sole ownership in 1880. Beer was first sold in 1874, while current brand material dates the Banquet recipe to 1876. The Golden site is the largest single-site brewery in the world and still malts its own barley. Coors Light followed in 1978, Keystone in 1989. Since the 2005 merger with Molson the brewery belongs to Molson Coors.
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