We are now in
Golden Colorado. We arrived yesterday (April 19), and have spent 2 days
exploring the area. We wanted to come to Golden for 2 reasons. The first is
because Daniel went to school at Colorado School of Mines for 6 months in 2013.
We wanted to see the town, that he had lived in (it looked so beautiful on the
pictures he sent).
The second reason is…the Coors brewery.😊
For me, Coors has been a special beer, since I was at university in St. Cloud. I had a friend, who went to Montana, and brought back a new kind of beer. It was Coors. And we thought it tasted much better than Minnesota beer.😊
Today (April 20), we went on a tour of the brewery. We met up with the tour on a parking lot. From there we took a shuttle bus through town, on a short tour, and then to the factory. At the factory, we went on a self-guided tour, that took us through the production of the beer. At the end of the tour, we got free tastes of the beer😊 Then we took the bus back to the parking lot. All of this for FREE!!!! We could not believe that!
On the tour we learned:
- Coors is the biggest on-site brewery (største bryggeri på ét sted) in the world. The biggest in area and in capacity.
- The brewery was started in 1873. The original brewery building is still part of the brewery.
- The reason the brewery was started here, was because of the supply of spring water, that Coors insists, makes their beer
taste better than other beers.
- Until the 70’s, Coors beer was very regional – partly because the beer is not pasteurized, so it has to be stored
refrigerated, and partly because the brewery could not produce enough beer to meet demands. This is why we didn’t have
Coors in Minnesota until 1991. (If anyone has seen the movie “Smokey and the bandit”, you may remember that it is
about “smuggling” Coors to Atlanta, Georgia.)
So much for Coors. We also saw downtown Golden. It is a town that has maintained the feeling of being a small town of 20.000 people and at the same time being part of the Denver metropolitan area of 3½ million. Mainstreet is only a few blocks, but very nice and well kept. And for decoration, a lot of very nice statues/sculptures.
The second reason is…the Coors brewery.😊
For me, Coors has been a special beer, since I was at university in St. Cloud. I had a friend, who went to Montana, and brought back a new kind of beer. It was Coors. And we thought it tasted much better than Minnesota beer.😊
Today (April 20), we went on a tour of the brewery. We met up with the tour on a parking lot. From there we took a shuttle bus through town, on a short tour, and then to the factory. At the factory, we went on a self-guided tour, that took us through the production of the beer. At the end of the tour, we got free tastes of the beer😊 Then we took the bus back to the parking lot. All of this for FREE!!!! We could not believe that!
On the tour we learned:
- Coors is the biggest on-site brewery (største bryggeri på ét sted) in the world. The biggest in area and in capacity.
- The brewery was started in 1873. The original brewery building is still part of the brewery.
- The reason the brewery was started here, was because of the supply of spring water, that Coors insists, makes their beer
taste better than other beers.
- Until the 70’s, Coors beer was very regional – partly because the beer is not pasteurized, so it has to be stored
refrigerated, and partly because the brewery could not produce enough beer to meet demands. This is why we didn’t have
Coors in Minnesota until 1991. (If anyone has seen the movie “Smokey and the bandit”, you may remember that it is
about “smuggling” Coors to Atlanta, Georgia.)
So much for Coors. We also saw downtown Golden. It is a town that has maintained the feeling of being a small town of 20.000 people and at the same time being part of the Denver metropolitan area of 3½ million. Mainstreet is only a few blocks, but very nice and well kept. And for decoration, a lot of very nice statues/sculptures.
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| A beautiful statue of a native American |
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| There was lots of cowboy stuff too |
And we drove past the Colorado School of Mines.
On Daniels recommendation we visited the Colorado Railroad Museum in Golden. They had a nice collection of old locomotives, cars, cabooses etc. etc. To our surprise we learned that railroad companies used steam locomotives all the way up to the beginning of the 1960ies even though the first diesel locomotives came already in the 1930ies.
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| They were getting this locomotive ready to drive. It was really smoking! |
Daniel had also recommended that we drive up Lookout Mountain and see Red Rock Park and Amphitheater. I found a scenic route (The Lariat Loop), that took us to both places. We drove that yesterday (April 19).
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| The view from Lookout Mountain. The sports field inside the red track, is the football field, where Daniel was assistant coach. |
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| Buffalo Bill is buried on Lookout Mountain. We went to see his grave. (For danskerne - han var i militæret, i kamp mod indianerne, og senere havde han en meget populær wild west show.) |
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| We are in the Rocky Mountains now. We can see snow in the distance. |
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| Red Rocks Park |
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| There is a natural amphitheater in Red Rocks Park. The acoustics are great for concerts. |
Written by Mary
Mary, this reminds me of our very last day in DK in 1979 when we toured the Carlsberg Brewery before we went to the airport to fly home!
ReplyDeleteYeah, I kind of felt like a student again:)
DeleteBeer for free, JJL must have liked that. :-)
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