Beer baron loses license over DUI

DENVER (AP) -- Beer baron Peter Coors' driver's license has been revoked by a hearing officer who ruled the executive had been driving under the influence of alcohol, officials said.
Hearing officer Scott Garber ruled Friday that Coors did not stop at a stop sign May 28 and was driving intoxicated.
Coors, 59, said he had consumed a beer about 30 minutes before leaving a wedding, the Rocky Mountain News reported Saturday. He faces an arraignment Thursday and has 30 days to appeal the revocation.
Company spokeswoman Kabira Hatland said that Coors rolled through a stop sign a block from his home in Golden and that an officer stopped him in his driveway.
Legal analyst Scott Robinson said drivers with no previous alcohol convictions are usually held to have driven while impaired, rather than the more serious driving while under the influence. Coors is not believed to have any previous drunken-driving convictions.
Coors took over as president of his family's company in 1987 and in 2000 was named chief executive of the brewer After a 2005 merger, it is now the Molson Coors Brewing Co.
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