Beer History and Updates for 52 Rolls Project Weeks 24-25

A bad photo, but street photography is not always pretty.  Capturing some Brewing History in Ft Collins:

And Linking to the 52 Rolls Project for Week #24 and Week #25.

Wrapping up at Cooper Smith's

Of course a "Cooper" is someone who made barrels, which includes beer kegs.

We wrapped up our walking tour of Ft Collins here.  Below, the requisite copper 'tun' for good luck:

Since you can't tell from the photo that it is copper, you'll have to take my word for it.

And a unique bike rack.....

As I look back through the blog I found that I had never posted our tour of the Coors Brewery.  Now I know that it's not a craft brewery.  But one thing we learned on the tour is, that it's really hard to make uniform bland beer at multiple locations.  So they really are master brewers, just going in a different direction than most of us prefer.......actually, their pre-prohibition beer recipe was quite good!

At The Equinox Brewery

We continue our AARP Pub Crawl with the first Brewery We Visited:  Equinox

And the Main Bar and Taps:

And in the Brew House:

Below, off gassing the CO2 to avoid exploding kettles of beer......

And the very Green Equinox Keg Delivery System:

Moving On.......Next Subject Please....Going to Scrumpy's

Somehow I missed actually posting Week #23 from the 52 Rolls Project.  Oh Well. So it's there now.  But We won't cry over spilled milk (or Cider as the case my be).  Yes Beer, and we view:

We have a very entertaining behind the scenes tour of several Tap rooms in Ft Collins, CO.  Scrumpy's was a lot of fun!  We've been to breweries before, but never a Cidery.

Co-founder Jennifer gave us a behind the scenes tour.  

Read more about the history of Summit and Scrumpy's.

I liked the squeegee broom propped agains the fermentation tank.

The Main Bar

Repurposed Church Pews.......

And an out of focus view of our sampler, which I kinda like.....