Entrepreneurship in Brewing: Dan Gordon on the History of Gordon Biersch

Dan Gordon is coming to campus to talk about what it's like to start a business in an industry 20 years before it was cool. Over the past few decades, Dan has seen a complete transformation in the brewing industry and has learned a lot about entrepreneurship along the way. Come for some free beer and learn from someone that's experienced it all in entrepreneurship.

About Gordon Biersch:

Gordon Biersch Brewery was founded by Dan Gordon and Dean Biersch. Gordon, a graduate from the five-year brewing engineering program at Weihenstephan, Germany, and Biersch opened their first brewery restaurant in Palo Alto, California in July 1988. In 1999, the restaurants were sold to what ultimately became CraftWorks Restaurants & Breweries. In November 1995, the two founders and their original investors, wanting to expand their then $20-million business, accepted a $11.2 million investment from the Fertitta family of Las Vegas. Since 1998, Gordon Biersch Brewing Company has more than doubled its production, increasing its capacity to 3.1 million gallons of beer annually, making Gordon Biersch Brewing Company one of the largest breweries in the San Francisco Bay Area and giving it a national reputation.

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