Coors Brewing Tour

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Matt and I took a tour of the Coors Brewing plant in Golden.  It is quite the interesting factory.

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Endless kettles.

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Long rows of machines.

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The process control room looks like a nuclear power plant control room.

IMG_2503More kettles.

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Old bottles in the laboratory where the beer is tested.

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Another view of the lab.

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The railroad infrastructure through the middle of the factory.

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Roasting the grain.

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The bottom of huge tanks.

IMG_2510Another impossibly massive room with equipment stretching into the distance.

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Bulkhead doors like those on containment structures in nuclear power plants.

IMG_2512The bottling lines.  It was a fascinating tour!