Vacation

Upstate New York. 

Brewing Beer

Summer Evenings ...

... might be my favorite thing ever. Small brewery. Patio. Good beer. Great company. Definitely one of my favorite things, at the very least.

New Belgium

Paul and I have wanted to tour the New Belgium brewery for a really long time.  The problem is that they schedule tours two months out and the Saturdays when it's easiest for us to go are always filled up as soon as they open.  Finally we decided to just pick a day that I was off work (I have one scheduled day off every two weeks) and schedule our tour for that day.  Paul would just take off work for the afternoon or whatever.  So that's what we did.  We ended up going in mid-July on a Wednesday afternoon.  It was the best Wednesday afternoon I had all summer.

I really love New Belgium.  They make some delicious, unique, innovative beers.  I like the story behind the brewery.  I like that they're locally owned and operated.  I like that they have come up with some really great ways to reduce their carbon emissions.  I like that their tour is free and they serve lots of beer during said free tour.

Signage

Fermentation tanks

Fun mirror

Mosaic floor in the fermentation room

Inside a fermentation tank

Thank you.  I will.

Such beautiful vessels

Multi-season, multi-sport bike

Hops

Fat Tire bottled 13 minutes prior

Very cool bottle lights

The bottling line

That's a lot of beer.

Can art work

New Belgium is very green.

Maybe my favorite beer ever

I would put this in my house if I could.

We saw a rainbow.

The ride home.