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.

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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!

Halloween 2009

This year’s Halloween was pretty epic.  It got off to a slow start but by the end of the night everyone was having a good time.  Here are some photos to prove it.

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Emily as a Zombie, Carl as a guy with a severed leg, and Matt as a grad student.

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Steve drinking it up.

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My costume.

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Jenna as Lady Gaga.

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Jesus and Lady Gaga: together at last!  One night only!

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And lo Jesus hath come down from heaven for a can of Hams.

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Reanimate the dead: Check!

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Sharon, Daniel, and Steve.

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Jesus is a ladies man.

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Dan came as a fully functional box of Franzia.

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This is a FireFox costume.  FireFox as in the web browser. So awesome!

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Someone dressed up as BookFace from The Office and someone dressed up as Fall?

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Our airplane captain friend who likes to get touchy-feely with the ladies when he is drunk.

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He got down on his knees and pleased Jesus.

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Reanimating the dead with some special Jesus Juice.

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Perhaps the scariest costume of the evening.

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Amber B not wanting a photo taken.

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Lady Gaga’s mid-evening costume change.

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Looks like we have an Anchor Man on the right.

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Pippy Longstockings and a zombie.

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Jacob as Dr Horrible.

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Jesus loves his Hams!

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A stripper and Stacey playing beer pong.

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