GOLDEN, COLORADO (August 2000)--- An employee of Coors Brewing Co. flipped the wrong switch and sent 77,500 gallons of beer into a creek, killing thousands of fish and prompting health warnings. The beer, which was in fermenting tanks, washed through a wastewater-treatment plant before ending up in Clear Creek on Friday, said Coors spokeswoman Aimee St. Clair. The fish likely suffocated from the alcohol - among other things - produced in the tanks. "Somebody made a mistake," she said. Officials with the state Division of Wildlife could not give a precise number of fish killed but estimated it was thousands.

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