The first source I am using is the Miller Brewing Company website, which is actually called millercoors.com. MillerCoors is the official name of the brewery as of today. Miller Brewing Company and Coors Brewing Company branched together in 2008 to become MillerCoors. This is a helpful site that gives some good background information on the history of the Miller Brewing Company. The Miller Brewing Company was founded in Milwaukee by Frederick John Miller in 1855 after immigrating to the United States from Germany, where he was a renowned brewer at the age of 25. In Milwaukee, Miller leased the Plank Road Brewery and later ended up purchasing the brewery in 1855 for $2,300. When Miller first started the brewery he sold draft beer because there was practically no way to bottle beer at that time. If someone wanted to take their beer with them they would have to put it in a growler, which is a tin pail. However, throughout the years Miller starts to bottle his own beer with very little production and in 1883 he was bottling his beer in his facility. Fredrick Miller died in 1888 and his immediate family continued his legacy. The Miller Brewing Company survived the Prohibition, the Great Depression, and two world wars and is still going strong today.

This website provides me with great information about the Miller Brewing Company’s history. I believe that this source is a very strong source that is helpful to me gathering information about my topic. It provides me with a timeline from 1824-2011, blog posts, and a brief history Frederick John Miller. I do not believe that this website has any false information. However, I do believe that this website is biased toward the Miller Brewing Company because the point of the website is to make people want to come and tour the brewery, or buy and drink the beer. This website would not put on any information on that would turn away the customers because they want to make a profit.

This source contributes background information on my topic. From this source I learned about Frederick Miller, the founder of the Miller Brewing Company and how the company started. This source never really explained why the Miller Brewing Company started other than Miller has always been a determined brewer even when he was young. I would like to do more research into how he got interested in brewing. I would also like to do more research into any rough patches the Miller Brewing Company went through. On the website it says that the company made it through the Great Depression, two world wars, and the Prohibition, but I do not believe that the company has been smooth sailing all these years without even a little problem. From here I would like to look into further detail about the Miller Brewing Company and hopefully find more information that can help me learn more about the company and answer my initial question.

I am interested in the Miller Brewing Company because I find it interesting how the company got started in Wisconsin and I would like to know why the company picked Wisconsin to start the business. Also, I want to find out the different things the company had to do to become so well known and do so well in business. I want to know how the Miller Brewing Company worked throughout the years. Were there times when the company had downfalls and almost closed? How did the company come back? My research question is how and why did the Miller Brewing Company start in Wisconsin, were there any major difficulties along the way, and how did it become so well known?

This question is important and worth exploring because it will help give me and others a better understanding of the Miller Brewing Company and how they have come to run their business throughout the years. It will help explain the ups and downs of the business. I do not currently have a satisfactory understanding of it as this time because I have not looked into great detail about the company and I was unaware of its existence until a few weeks ago. Exploring my research question can help me become aware of the Miller Brewing Company and inform others of their work here in Wisconsin.