Standing in solidarity with our friends in Colorado (New Mexico and Utah too!), particularly those in Southwest Colorado who witnessed last week the near unthinkable as more than 3,000,000 gallons of mustard colored sludge blasted down Cement Creek and then down the Animas, we’re tagging the classic Coors as this week’s Thirsty Thursday brew.
German immigrants Adolf Coors and Jacob Schueler established the original brewery in Golden (Coor’s original stake was $2,000 of the total $20,000 invested); Coors bought out Schueler in 1880 and began touting the “pure Rocky Mountain Spring water” used to brew his beers.
Years ago I was fortunate to spend almost all of my high school and college summers wandering around the Weminuche Wilderness backcountry between Durango and Silverton and have a great love for the area. It’s strikingly beautiful country peppered with 14‘ers, abandoned mines and glittering rivers and creeks.
A classic sixer of those iconic pale yellow Coors cans or banquet bottles stream-cooled on many a river day back then…
The story is far, far from over in Colorado and there’s been some very interesting back story trickling out that most media has chosen to ignore; we’re digging a bit deeper and will have more up in a day or two.
Cheers.
