Early Colorado brewers celebrated the centennial with a commemorative bock beer

Early Colorado brewers celebrated the centennial with a commemorative bock beer

A view of Golden, Colorado, in 1883, with the Coors Brewing Company building at top left. (Courtesy of Denver Public Library Special Collections, X-10007)By early 1876, Lake City, one of the mining boomtowns recently sprung up in the Colorado Territory’s San Juan Mountains, was home to an organized school district, a dance hall and an amateur theater troupe, along with multiple blacksmiths, hardware stores, grocers and a busy lumber mill. ← …