It’s take me until now, well actually two months ago, to get a  reservation for a tour at the New Belgium Brewing brewery.  And I totally lucked out and got two spaces on the thursday of GABF 2014 weekend, and I didn’t remember til like a day or two after they went up for reservations.  I still remember the first Fat Tire beer I had, at Microbrews for the Environment at the Boulder Theatre either my junior or senior year.  Very cool, and very happy to see how their ethics have directly contributed to their success.

This was the first beer we got to sample on the New Belgium Brewing tour I took this past weekend with adventuresinlunch.org while he was in town for GABF 2014.  It was a barrel aged beer brewed with bret yeast.  I’ll look up the name and update this with details if I remember, there’s a bottle in my fridge upstairs.  Oh yeah, did I mention our tour guide Dave was awesome?  He took our more knowledgeable questions right in stride with the novice questions from the rest of the guests on the tour.  Clearly loves where he works.

Very humble beginnings, cool to see.  Almost like something I’d cluge together when brewing with friends.

Artsy shot of the final of 5 different beers we sampled on the tour, overlooking their back parking lot from the tour area at the bottling line.

I forget which the beer on the left was, I had had several by that point, and some deliciousness from the taco truck at the brewery.  The beer on the right was a free sample of Fat Tire they gave out to everyone at the tap room to commemorate their 50,000th batch brewed of Fat Tire.  Pretty cool.  Loved their tap room, too bad it’s over an hour drive from home.  Oh well, for special occasions with friends.

This is what happens at the end of a fun afternoon when you find a nickel on the table and are unsuccessful at trying to play quarters with it…