When the MillerCoors facility in Golden, Colo., experienced a small flood in its basement a few years ago, little did the company know what it was about to
stumble upon. As brewmaster Keith Villa was moving boxes stored in the basement to safety, he realized one of them contained archived beer recipes from the pre-Prohibition era. The brewer took one of the recipes and revived the beer for present-day consumers. Batch 19, named for the last batches of beer destroyed in 1919, became available in May 2010 on draught in limited quantities in select markets, according to the company.