this afternoon we went on a tour of the coors brewery, since we’re right here in golden, colorado, home of coors beer. i don’t like beer. i was unenthusiastic about going on a brewery tour. but it was surprisingly fun. i took quite a few photos, and i liked the smell of the hops and/or the barley, and i was interested to hear how they make the beer, and by the end of the tour i thought, WOW, i hope i like beer! maybe i will! i’m SURE i will!
but the free beer samples they gave us at the end just tasted like…beer. *sigh.*
we went on the regular tour. there’s a VIP tour, for clients of the brewery and members of the coors family. we looked at the barley in the kiln, and i’m sorry i don’t have a photo of it, but imagine a vast floor covered with grain.
except there were FOOTPRINTS in the grain. our tour guide said that people on the vip tour get to WALK THROUGH THE BARLEY.
sure, they’re wearing protective booties or whatever, but this furthered my disinclination to want to drink beer. people walking through the barley.
when we got on the very plush and comfy little bus to go to the brewery, a large tigger, a princess, and a guy dressed as death boarded the bus with us. these were the only costumed tour-goers we saw.
here are the copper kettles. i believe this was where they combined the grains with the water. or at least that’s what christine tells me.
at the end of the tour, we each got three samples of beer. i tried one, just to see if it was somehow better than beer that i’ve tasted time and time again. it didn’t. but then i had an orange zima slushee. craig, the rocket scientist who is also here visiting, was making fun of me for getting a slushee, but then he tried mine, and he LOVED it, and so he and pete also got them. craig got green apple, and pete, black cherry. christine stuck with beer.
as we finally left the brewery, a truck was being filled with grain remnants, which will be cattle feed.
when we got back to christine’s sister’s house, halloween stuff was going on full blast. the family had been downtown to take part in trick-or-treating there. this is how cute the town looks:
will and hanna were both dragons, and after the first trick-or-treating fun, they got to go out in the neighborhood to score lots more candy.
their parents, beth and greg, took the kids out trick-or-treating, so the rest of us left in the house were responsible for greeting the other trick-or-treaters. not a lot of them came, and one was a lone young teenage girl, dressed in some kind of fancy skirt with a coat over it. she looked very depressed.
here’s beth with the kids.
whew. right now, we’re all sitting around the greg’s huge, 62″ hdtv TV. is that redundant, hdtv tv? surely it is. anyway, we’re watching MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL.
i, personally, am not watching football. i made a big thing of guacamole, and it’s all gone now, and i’ve been sitting here writing, and pretty much ignoring the game. but it’s kind of nice right now, very homey. pete has the world’s cutest puppy on his lap. everybody is mellow.
ok then, the next time i write, i’ll be in ILLINOIS.
halloween grace