During my spring break trip to Colorado, I decided to visit the New Belgium Brewing Company and take a guided tour. The tour was absolutly amazing! You learned not only how they brewed and bottled their famous beverages but you learned about their history and interesting facts about their employee owned company. The tour started off with a sample of their new Lips of Faith beer. Lips of Faith is their coined term for beer they are only brewing once. We were also instructed on how to properly drink the beer out of a wine glass. Yes a wine glass. When drinking craft brewed beers it is much like drinking wine, the color and all the flavors are to be savored and taken in. I never knew beer could be so many shades of beautiful colors! But anyways a good swirl and a sniff of the beer before drinking it is neccessary to enjoy all of the flavors it has to offer. Next we moved on to the bottling plant where we not only saw how they bottle the beer but we also found out they are a very green company. They recycle and donate by-products that are usable to local farmers. The company also is employee owned. At an employees one year anniversary they are given their share of the company and a New Belgium bike, for which the company is named. I also learned that many people refer to their most famous beer as Flat Tire, however it really called Fat Tire. After learning all these interesting facts we were then instructed to slide down a windy slide to get to the next part of the brewery. Everyone from the 21 year olds to the 60 year old man on our tour went down the slide! After touring this brewery I have fallen in love with their beers!. They are delightfully good and there is a beer for every taste. Their India Pale Ale is some of the best I have ever tasted and their Sunshine Wheat really does taste like summer! Any one who has the chance should definatly tour the brewery and absolutley try any of their beers! Their website is also hilarious and definatly worth checking out! My next Blog will be about Mojo India Pale Ale and Flying Dog variety pack! Any beer suggestions are welcome! Happy Drinking!
New Belguim Brewery…Great Beer and a Great Company!
March 24, 2010
julie0831
Categories: Breweries
Tags: Fat Tire, Flying Dog, India Pale Ale, Mojo, New Belgium Brewing Company, Sunshine Wheat
6 responses to “New Belguim Brewery…Great Beer and a Great Company!”
Crummitt & Son Vault Corp.
March 25th, 2010 at 20:04
Sounds like a trip every beer drinker should do once int heir life!
julie0831
March 25th, 2010 at 20:18
Definatly!! If you get a chance go!! thanks for the comment!
drawingthings
March 25th, 2010 at 21:31
I agree that the variety of beer color are awesome. Makes me want a nice cold specialty pale ale.
julie0831
March 25th, 2010 at 21:49
Beer is beautiful!! That may be my next class room post! I might put different pics up of different beers and comment on their colors!! Thanks for the idea!
Crummitt & Son Vault Corp.
March 25th, 2010 at 22:33
One quick question. Do you know the difference between a Lager, Ale, Stout, Beer, and all that stuff….there’s so many and i am curious how they are different
julie0831
April 1st, 2010 at 17:04
well i dedicated a post to that question! hope it is helpful to you!! thanks for stopping by!