Bill Coors, the grandson of Adolph Coors and the former chairman of the brewing company that bears his family’s name, died Saturday at the age of 102.
Coors was a titan in the brewing world, spending 65 years with the brewer and being responsible, in part, for the company’s growth from a regional brewer to one of the largest beer brands in America.
Coors’ defining moment, though, came at the start of his tenure as chairman in 1959, when he introduced beer in recyclable aluminum cans, the first time the industry had used those in any widespread capacity. Coors was also one of the first companies to user the push tab top on beer cans, doing away with pull tabs that were becoming a litter problem in the early 1970s.
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