There was a lot of this....
Then there was a tour!
They use just a little hops in their beer (one bin of 20 or so)...and encourage you to put your hands on the hops and huff that great smell!
They show you kettles that make a homebrewer feel just a tad insignificant (but damn they're pretty)! Notice I am as giddy as a kid in a candy shop.
The hundreds (?) of miles of piping that connect everything! By the way....your looking at a the bottom of fermentors that stand about 300 ft high. If you attempted to drink one of these dry (say 13 pints a day) it would take you 40 years!
The preacher joined me on this trip (with his fancy new camera)...I handed him a sign that seemed appropriate!
Wifey was also along for the trip. Here we are in front of the dormant bottling line. They shut it down on the weekends. Bummer....would have loved to seen this massive line running!
Oops! Almost forgot the tour tasting room. Here we shotgunned six different Sierra Nevada beer samples in about 15 minutes at the end of the tour!
Finally, once you've had a few beers they set you in front of a huge gift shop. Notice that the Preacher's wifey is strategically between him and the gift shop. Coincidence? I think not!
Just to interject some bicycle content. They have a complete workstation on site at the brewery with all the tools and pumps you can handle. Just for a little kitsch it's made out of 5 gallon corny kegs!
As are the bike racks themselves!
So, after about 5 hours at the brewery, it was time to head back to camp with a couple of growlers for a well earned evening off!
The homes for the evening.
All in all not a bad way to spend a weekend!
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