Coors brewery and a dam

On Friday I decided to drive to Golden again to see if the lines to the Coors Brewery tour were decent this time. Golden was the territory capital of Colorado until it was moved to Denver in 1867 and nowadays it has a nice little historic district and of course the home of the Coors beer. Like many of the most successful American companies, Coors was founded by a European immigrant (a Prussian bloke called Adolf Kuhrs/Coors) coming across the pond in search of better opportunities. The company survived the prohibition years (1920-1933) and nowadays it's one of the largest brewing companies in the world.

This building has seriously been beaten with the ugly stick but it's still the largest single brewery facility in the world

Just so that you don't have to exhaust yourself by walking the quarter mile route from the parking lot to the tour entrance

From the outside the facility is just as ugly as you might imagine but the free tour inside is an interesting way to spend an hour or two. The whole brewing process seems quite complex. Something about malting, milling, mashing, lautering, boiling, fermenting, conditioning, filtering and finally packaging with words like hops and wort inserted in the the middle.

The command centre

The end result is what matters and I have to admit I'm not the biggest fan of beer in general. They offered plenty of tasting to anyone over 21 but I was driving so I had to skip it but I did buy a sampling pack of six different brands. Many of them only have 3.2% ABV (alcohol by volume) which seems strange compared to the stronger Finnish beers that I'm used to.

In the evening I went for another ride without any real destination and ended up at the Gross reservoir and Dam. I also bumped into some furries along the way, 12 of them to be exact.

Bendy roads <3

That's Boulder down there

Looks like it's been burning up here recently

Furries!

The road up to the reservoir wasn't paved