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Bill Coors, a pioneer in the American brewing industry and former chairman of the Adolph Coors Company, died peacefully at his home Saturday at 102.
Bill Coors began working for his grandfather Adolph's brewing company in 1939. Twenty years later, he became company chairman, during which he created and developed the aluminum can, a key milestone for the beer industry.
"His dedication, hard work and ingenuity, helped shape not only our company but the entire beer industry," said Mark Hunter, president and CEO of Molson Coors, in a statement.
Bill Coors spent 65 years with the company as it grew from a regional brewer based in Colorado to one of the biggest beer brands in America.
mobeau69
(11,156 posts)A dead one.
lastlib
(23,308 posts)He's dead. Good.
Mosby
(16,365 posts)pretzel4gore
(8,146 posts)The nasty ole fascist coors owed everything to what he then spent his life trying to injure/destroy
Mosby
(16,365 posts)And has written guidelines prohibiting some hate speech. Making a statement like "the only good republican is a dead republican" is something I would expect to see at FR or the cave, but in reverse. Further, the post I replied to could be viewed as classic trolling, a situation where a person joins a discussion pretending that they agree with the group, but then makes extreme statements to facilitate the marginalization and discredation the entire group's shared beliefs.
pretzel4gore
(8,146 posts)I think hatred for the rightwing goofs sometimes trumps routine decency, and gotta be careful, but lets all hate the treasonous mass murdering child corrupting nazipooh trumpsuckers...and wave them pitchforks!
nini
(16,672 posts)Did his death change that?
bluestarone
(17,058 posts)I would NEVER drink anti-union beer!! Never have and never will!
lastlib
(23,308 posts)but I suspect that actual turtle urine would taste and smell better than Coors beer.* Never mind the fact that the Coors family are major right-wing POSs.....
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(*I've never tasted either actual turtle urine OR Coors beer myself, but I cannot imagine that the latter would be preferable to the former.....my 2cts)
bluestarone
(17,058 posts)I'll take your word for it!!!
Mr. Big
(45 posts)Avoid them like the plague.
Laffy Kat
(16,386 posts)So many wonderful brews in this state and I don't know any true beer affectionadoes who like or drink Coors. It's horrible. Why waste your time, money, and calorie intake on piss when you can have a great Colorado microbrew?
mnmoderatedem
(3,729 posts)the only use for Coors.
Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)Journeyman
(15,041 posts)Cattledog
(5,919 posts)Miles Archer
(18,837 posts)First beer I ever drank...it was phenomenally popular when I moved to California at age 16.
Soon outgrew it. Really soon.
dalton99a
(81,599 posts)COORS' IDEAS
By Dorothy Gilliam
March 29, 1984
Representatives of the Adolph Coors Co. said this week they are feeling comfortably "close to target" in their major hard-driving campaign to flood the Washington metropolitan area with their Colorado beer. But I wonder how many of the people who sip their suds know the views toward blacks of William K. Coors, the brewery's chairman and chief executive officer, who is a friend of President Reagan?
Blacks lack "intellectual capacity" and "one of the best things they slave traders did for you is to drag your ancestors over here in chains," Coors recently told minority business owners in Denver. He said if American blacks visited the African countries from which their ancestors were taken by slave traders they would be glad they were living in a country with a free-enterprise system, "a land of opportunity."
It's not that African blacks lack dedication, he said, "They lack the intellectual capacity to succeed, and it's taking them down the tubes."
Wednesdays
(17,412 posts)"We brought them civilization, and this is the thanks they give us."
LBM20
(1,580 posts)Zorro
(15,749 posts)It wasn't pasteurized or something to that effect, from my recollection.
It was somewhat of a treat when a student from Texas would haul a case or two into the dorm.
Xolodno
(6,401 posts)It was at a party and a friend of mine opened one up and gave it to me. Tried it, and said, "Wow, that's some joke! How did you secretly replace the beer with water?". He had a blank stare and said, "No, its beer". I replied "no it isn't, its water". Grabbed another to compare and realized, he wasn't trying pull one off me.
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,505 posts)nini
(16,672 posts)That beer wasn't allowed in my house growing up because the anti union policy. I carry that tradition on.
He was also racist. No loss really.