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Gordon Biersch is an American brewery founded by Dan Gordon and Dean Biersch. Gordon, a graduate from the five-year brewing engineering program at Weihenstephan, and Biersch opened their first brewery restaurant in Palo Alto, California in July 1988. The entrance of a brewery. ...
Weihenstephan is part of the city of Freising (48,500 inhabitants) north of Munich. ...
Location in Santa Clara County and the state of California Coordinates: , Country State County Santa Clara Government - Mayor Yoriko Kishimoto[1] Area - City 25. ...
Year 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday (link displays 1988 Gregorian calendar). ...
In November 1995, the two founders and their original investors, wanting to expand their then-$20 million business, accepted an $11.2 million investment from the Fertitta family of Las Vegas[1][2]. Lorenzo Fertitta, a 1991 graduate of the University of San Diego, became the controlling owner. While the Gordon Biersch Brewing Company continues to operate as a brewery and bottler of Gordon Biersch beers, the company sold its restaurant assets in 1999. The University of San Diego, frequently referred to as USD, is a Catholic university in San Diego, California. ...
The company's restaurant assets were sold in 1999 to Big River Breweries in Chattanooga, Tennessee. That company now operates as Gordon Biersch Brewery Restaurant Group, Inc. and operates 30 restaurants in 14 states and Washington, D.C., with eight more operated by franchisees in various airports in the United States. [1] For other uses, see Washington, D.C. (disambiguation). ...
In February 2006, Gordon Biersch Brewery Restaurant Group announced it had filed plans for an initial public offering. The Company later pulled this filing and postponed the offering due to unfavorable market conditions. âIPOâ redirects here. ...
Awards
Gordon Biersch brands have won several awards including the best Bohemian-style pilsner with their Gordon Biersch Czech Lager. (Gold, 2004 Great American Beer Festival). They won the Bronze at the WorldBeer Cup 2002 with their Gordon Biersch Vienna in the category of Vienna-Style Lager. Flag of Bohemia Bohemia (Czech: ; German: ) is a historical region in central Europe, occupying the western and middle thirds of the Czech Republic. ...
Original Pilsner Urquell Pilsener or pilsner is a pale lager, developed in the 19th century in the city of Pilsen, Bohemia (PlzeÅ in the Czech Republic). ...
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Vienna lager is a style of lager beer. ...
References - ^ Gordon Biersch: New Challenges and Opportunities, a May 2002 article from the Harvard Business Review
- ^ Gordon Biersch names Allin president, an April 1996 article from Nation's Restaurant News, via findarticles.com
December 2006 issue of the Harvard Business Review. ...
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