AC Golden Brewing Company

Infobox Brewery
name = AC Golden Brewing Company


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location = Golden, Colorado,
United States
owner = MillerCoors
opened = 2007
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active_beers = brewbox_beer|name=Herman Joseph's Private Reserve|style=lager
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The AC Golden Brewing Company is a subsidiary of MillerCoors, a joint venture between SABMiller and Molson Coors Brewing Company. Its purpose is to serve as a specialty brewing arm of MillerCoors, in the words of president Glenn Knippenberg, "Our mission for AC Golden is to be a brand incubator for what is now MillerCoors". [ [http://www.denverpost.com/mrbeer/ci_10169516] ] The AC Golden Brewery operates in the former pilot brewery of the Coors Brewery, the world's largest single site brewery. It debuted its first beer, Herman Joseph's Private Reserve, in 2008.

History

The AC Golden Brewing Company operates at the historic Coors Brewery in Golden, Colorado, established in 1873 by German immigrants Adolph Coors and Jacob Schueler, itself originally called the Golden Brewery. Over the years its beer was said to take its flavor from the pure water of the Rocky Mountains. In 1980 the Coors Brewing Company introduced Herman Joseph's 1868, a premium ale and a favorite brew of the Coors family. This was discontinued in 1989, relaunched as Herman Joseph's in 1994, and discontinued again in 1999. [ [http://www.denverpost.com/mrbeer/ci_10169516] ] In the meantime, with the advent of the Coors Field baseball stadium in 1995, Coors started the Sandlot Brewery in a historic warehouse incorporated into the stadium. This craft style brewery began brewing Blue Moon, a highly successful Belgian-style witbier that year. Noting the changing American beer market, parent Molson Coors decided to pursue Blue Moon's blueprint by creating the AC Golden Brewing Company and slowly developing new brews with it. [ [http://www.beveragebusiness.com/archives/article.php?cid=1&eid=40&aid=388] ] This was placed into the realm of MillerCoors when this joint venture took effect in 2008. While not folding Blue Moon itself into AC Golden, in 2008 it debuted to the public its first beer, Herman Joseph's Private Reserve, the third launch of the product named after Coors co-founder Adolph Herman Joseph Coors. It is now brewed as a German style lager. It is presently sold only at fine restaurants in the Denver/Golden metropolitan area.

Product Lines

* Herman Joseph's Private Reserve (2008)

Presidents

* Glenn Knippenberg (2007-Present)

ee Also

* Coors Brewing Company
* Molson Coors Brewing Company
* MillerCoors

References

External Links

* [http://hermanjosephs.com/ AC Golden Brewing Company]
* [http://www.millercoors.com/ MillerCoors]
* [http://www.coors.com/ Coors Brewing Company] (USA).
* [http://www.beernwinetours.com/?p=13/ Review of the Coors Brewery Tour]
* [http://www.beerdrinkingclub.com/ American Beer Drinking Club-Beer News, Stories, Surveys]