The past week in a nutshell – Adios Colorado, Hello Wyoming!
Posted by Brian | Posted in You trippin! | Posted on 30-08-2010
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We apologize for being a bit lazy on the blog, but after a nice week of catching up with family and friends we are ready to jump back into it. We arrived in Denver last Sunday and stayed with my cousin Heidi and her family through Thursday. And by stay with them I mean, parked Stanley outside her house for about a week 😉 Sunday night was a fantastic dinner at my Aunt Betsy’s, Monday was a most excellent BBQ cookout hosted by Lauren and Chris (and thanks to Kyle for the ride there 🙂 Tuesday we met Brian’s Uncle Tom for a fantastic meal at The Berkshire and Wednesday I made dinner for the fam. (thanks to the latest issue of Cooking Light, the cover meal, Chicken and Guac tostadas was delicious!!)
After our relaxing stay in Denver, we headed up to Boulder for some beer tastings. We hit up Boulder Beer for lunch on Thursday then headed 20 minutes north to Longmont to stay at the RV park for the night. There we hit up Left Hand and Oskar Blues and then took our bikes and the bus back to Boulder for more breweries. We were very disappointed to find that Avery brewery closes early at 8pm so we missed that 🙁
So far our running total of brewery tastings are as follows:
Bristol Brewing Co, Colorado Springs
Trinity Brewing Co, Garden of the Gods
McClellans Brewery, Canon City, Colorado
Breckenridge Brewery, Breckenridge
Great Divide, Denver, Colorado
Boulder Brewery
Mountain Sun, Boulder
Walnut Brewery, Boulder
Left Hand Brewery, Longmont, Colorado
Oskar Blues, Longmont Colorado (2 locations)
Coopersmiths Brewery, Ft. Collins
Equinox, Ft. Collins
Odells, Ft. Collins
Needless to say, I am ready for a break! Well, not that long because there are two breweries that we will hit in Wyoming. Staying in Colorado has been great, I feel like I could spend two more weeks here, but atlas it is time to move on and use these wheels on our home. Tonight I think you will all be happy to hear we are going to try out our first Walmart camping night in Rock Springs, Wyoming. Then Tuesday we will head to Jackson, which according to most people I talk to is the most beautiful place, EVER. So we will see 🙂
Thanks again for following. Brian is going to post about our adventures in Lyons. Here is a synopsis of our last week in a Facebook album. We love to hear from you so use our comments if you’d like to give us a shout out!!
“Visiting family and friends, seeing the sights and enjoying the brews!”
From Road Trippin’ pt 4, posted by Maria Scarpello on 8/30/2010 (54 items)
- Great Divide Brewery Denver Colorado
- Great Minds Drink Alike
- Just like Chris and I 🙂
- My cousin has a miniature version of Ernie! His name is Norman
- In this perspective Norman looks to be the same size as Ernesto
- Stanley got his first bath in Denver, at the truck stop was the Mobile Chapel, just i…
- In Boulder at the Boulder Brewing Co. mmm
- Brian enjoying the beer samples.
- View from above
- First brewery in Colorado started in 79
- empty!
- inside the brewery
- Our designated driver
- he is sure lovin’ the road!
- Next brewery, Left Hand in Longmont CO. TASSSSTTy
- At a dive bar waiting for the bus, decided to grab a Dale’s Pale Ale from Oskar blues…
- Waiting for the bus. our other DD.
- Back in Boulder at the Mountain Sun brewery. This is as close as I’ve got to Freestat…
- pretty wall art at the brewery.
- Stout and Brown. mmmmm
- beer shot
- relaxing after all our sampling!
- next day back in Longmont at the Oskar Blues restaurant.
- and another sample platter
- This one is in Lyons, CO. Big chair = photo opp
- At another Oskar Blues in Lyons, CO. This one had a sweet game room with old classic …
- Pinball time
- South Park pinball was freaking hilarious. So loud and raunchy just like Trey and Mat…
- We have to post a video from this game, it had us cracking up for a while!
- Next door to the Oskar Blues brewery was this cool classic pinball game room. The guy…
- this is the largest pinball game in the world!!!
- Watch out for our upcoming blog post about “random adventure of the day!” This was ou…
- Great detours if you just take time to stop and look around!
- The only two player pinball game in the world. One person stands on each side and you…
- I beat brian on this one!!
- Back on the road. Owly loving the view to Estes Park.
- At the estes park dog park. This was buddha’s first attempt at the bridge. he was LOV…
- and down he goes. it took a little encouragement.
- I helped show him.
- Fun is over with the dogs, now back to tasting. This is the Estes Brewery. They give …
- the brewery.
- and the view.
- Now we are in Ft. Collins. This brewery honestly had two of my favorite samples from …
- Here were the samples.
- Ft. Collins has an art in the alley program commissioning local artist to paint the e…
- Next brewery, Odells (there was actually one brewery in between coopersmiths and odel…
- On the brewery tour at Odells. It turns out the New Belguim tour is booked for days, …
- tell me more!
- got to love when kegs match your outfit
- more tour time. they called this the cows tit, because they drain the beer out of the…
- HOPS!
- this is their barrel aged beers. Mainly bourbon and whiskey barrels, but they also di…
- and the tasting.
- good day!! Thanks ft. collins!
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