Molson Coors
Adolph Coors founded his brewery in Golden, Colorado, in 1873, and it merged with Canada’s Molson, founded in 1786, in 2005. Molson Coors took full control of Miller in 2016, when US regulators made AB InBev sell SABMiller’s share of MillerCoors, and became for a time the largest brewer in North America. It is the second-largest US brewing company. The BJCP lists Coors Original and Miller High Life as American lagers and Coors Batch 19 as a pre-Prohibition lager. Since 2020 it has brewed Yuengling for new states in a joint venture with the family. In January 2025 it closed the 157-year-old Leinenkugel’s brewery in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, and moved that beer to Milwaukee.
Styles brewed by Molson Coors
American Lager
LagerAmerican lager: the very pale, crisp, lightly bitter lager of Budweiser, Coors and Miller, served ice cold. Strength, taste, history and how it differs from a Pilsner.
Pre-Prohibition Lager
LagerPre-Prohibition lager: the bitter, hoppy, corn-rich pale lager German immigrants brewed in America before 1920, revived by home brewers. Taste and history.
At a glance
- Country
- USA
- Brews in
- Golden, Colorado
- Founded
- 1873
- Owner
- Molson Coors Beverage Company
- Best-known beers
- Coors Original, Coors Light, Miller High Life, Miller Lite, Blue Moon
- Address
- 12th & Ford Street, Golden, CO 80401
- Visit
- Brewery tours
- Website
- molsoncoors.com
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