Today we headed to Golden Colorado. First stop was the Coors Beer Tour. It's my first time to do this though I'd seen the factory 100 times passing through.
We parked the car and took the shuttle bus to the facility.
Walking in, we were met by an old and no longer used brewing thing. Pot. Kettle. I don't know. It was big and it was under a big Coors can.
The tour is set up so the walker can hit a number on a remote sort of
thing and listen to the electronic tour guide. The beginning people said
we could take one for the group so we only had one. That was a mistake
since they work like phones, not like information conveyed via speaker. So if you go, get one for each participant.
There were some grains used in beer making at one of first tour stops. I discovered that hops are stinky.
On the tour, moving to the big brass brewing things.
Lots of things on this tour.
See, told you there were lots of big brass brewing things.
LOTS of them!
A display of Coors products
And some devices used through the years to brew beer.
During the tour, we came to the Fresh Beer Room. In this room, one can taste Coors that is 3-5 days old.
Dad enjoying the fresh Coors. (I am not a beer drinker)
One of the conveyer belts. It was hard to see the entire process. Below to the left we could see cans coming in mass then slowly ending up single file. They something happened to them. The came around to the machine on the right that was cutting the cardboard cases and stuffing them with cans of beer. Then the closed cases went out to some magical place. I am guessing a truck.
This was oddly mesmerizing.
A few stops later and we were in the Lounge. Here those 21+ can taste three beers. Three big glasses of beer! It was now clearer the demographics of the others on the tours. They charged through the tour to get to this stop. Then guzzled.
Dad enjoyed some Red Killian beer.
I am still surprised at how much beer they give away for free here.
Upon exiting we stopped at a memorial for those in the military. Dad's in front of the Navy side of the memorial.
We then headed to 19th Street and headed west. Our second destination of the day was the top of Lookout Mountain. This is the home of Buffalo Bill's grave and a museum dedicated to his life.
A bonus is that this road - the Lariat Trail - is a terrific bike ride. I've not done it yet. Many others were on the road heading to the top. Looks like great fun.
As the road goes higher and higher, the views got better and better.
We got to the top and entered the museum. Here dad is with a cut-out of Buffalo Bill
Some info about BB
Lots of stuff in the museum - clothes, saddles, paintings, Indian stuff, buffalo heads, etc.
This is a painting of Sitting Bull and his head dress. Seems Buffalo Bill was a great friend of the Indians (for real) when he wasn't scalping some. :/
Confusing.
We walked outside (and skipped the gift shop) to see the graves of Buffalo Bill and his wife. BB is beneath the white quartz rocks on the left, his wife on the right. It certainly is a beautiful location.
An added bonus was watching the parapenters launching from the mountain. There were many.
We then went into Golden and ate at Grappas. It offered some really delicious Mediterranean food. Yum.
Then we headed down to Clear Creek to see the trout sculpture.
Here dad is engaged in a trout rodeo.
I was next - yeehaw!
The trouts were also nice at warm from the sunshine.
Why trout you ask? Here is the plaque describing why trout.
And the a photo of the full sculpture. I really like this display.
Tomorrow we head into Denver for some fun things...hang tight for that fun!
3 comments:
Glad you guys had a fun day in Golden!
Ride them trout Cowgirl!!!
YEEEE HAWWWWW!
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