New Belgium Brewery Tour

Yesterday we had our quarterly team building event for our planning and scheduling team at work. We've been trying to find places to tour that we may have business interest in. This summer we decided to tour New Belgium Brewery in Fort Collins. We have special interest in New Belgium because they purchase our pale malt to brew all of their brands except their one organic brew. Our team bills the shipments and tracks the malt inventory so we wanted to see what happened to the malt once it left Golden and headed north to Fort Collins. Wow, were we in for a treat! We were treated to a 2.5 hour personal tour of the entire brewing and packaging operation. We were offered a trip to see their Process Waste Treatment Plant but we figured we've seen one (we have one at Coors) and that's enough for a life time. We had an excellent tour and then ended it with a tasting session of some of their brews. What a great day to spend the work day!!

I know that some of the team is a blog watcher so here is a shout out to them! Thanks for a great day!!!

We piled in the Coors van for our trip. New Belgium is about 1.25 - 1.5 hours north of Coors. We had to take this picture because Keith thought it was funny that I was driving this big van and he didn't think I would be able to do it. Oh, he has little faith in my skills! Not only did I drive it, I drove it well. We had our own special greeting just inside the brewery. How cool is that?!?!

This is Carrie, Joanne, Cindy, Carol and Vi

Here we are tasting their new summer brew, Skinny Dip. It was fabulous!!
Vi, Joanne, Cindy, Carrie, Carol