{"id":42278,"date":"2023-03-08T10:01:30","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T14:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebeertimes.com\/corona-extra-history-origin-and-global-expansion-of-a-mexican-symbol\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T12:19:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T16:19:10","slug":"corona-extra-history-origin-and-global-expansion-of-a-mexican-symbol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebeertimes.com\/en\/corona-extra-history-origin-and-global-expansion-of-a-mexican-symbol\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Is Corona Beer From? History and Origin of Cervecer\u00eda Modelo"},"content":{"rendered":"
Corona Extra beer comes from Mexico. It was created by Cervecer\u00eda Modelo, founded on March 8, 1922, in Mexico City by a group of Spanish immigrants. The Corona brand was born in 1926, in 1997 it overtook Heineken as the best-selling imported beer in the United States, and since 2013 it has belonged to AB InBev, except in the United States, where its rights are owned by Constellation Brands.<\/div>\n
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The history of Corona Extra beer goes back to March 8, 1922, when a group of Spanish immigrants began building Cervecer\u00eda Modelo S.A. in Mexico City.<\/p>\n

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When the brewery was completed in 1925, Grupo Modelo was also born, led by Braulio Iriarte as president and by Francisco Cilveti, whose first goals were to establish the brewery in Mexico City and its surroundings.<\/p>

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The Spanish community, organized by towns and regions of origin, had earned a place in Mexico’s social and economic life, and Cervecer\u00eda Modelo<\/a> was part of that world of trade associations and family ties that had been developing since the last third of the 19th century.<\/p>\n\n

The Birth of Corona Beer<\/h2>\n

In 1926, the first brand produced at the new brewery was Modelo beer. A month later, Corona was born.<\/p>\n

A widespread legend holds that Corona’s name and logo were inspired by the crown on top of the parish church of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Puerto Vallarta. The timeline disproves it, because that crown was built in 1965, almost four decades after the brand was born.<\/p>\n

In its early years, Modelo brewed its beer<\/a> with imported malts and hops. Today’s Corona is made with malted barley, rice or corn, hops and yeast, and includes ascorbic acid as an antioxidant and propylene glycol alginate<\/a> as a foam stabilizer.<\/p>\n