They have an "experimental hop farm" outside the brewery.
They have about 20 different Sierra Nevada brews on tap. I had Torpedo Ale, which is an IPA and a 2006 vintage Bigfoot, and Draft Pale Ale, which is different than the famous bottled version. Smoother & not a hoppy. Ronda had a german style dark wheat & Kristal Weizen. They had at least 5 different wheat beers for the summer.
Food was good. All their beef is from a farm at the college. The cows are fed a special diet that includes the used grains that made beer at the brewery. And they're fed beer. Yep.
We were too late to take the tour, but they let us walk around and do a self tour, which was cool.
Magic happens inside these things.
Smart men making great things.
We stayed at the $75 a night Holiday Inn. Turns out the whole band was staying there as well. Yep, big rock n roll stars staying at the Holiday Inn. We ran into Josh Homme in the elevator, talked to him for a bit. Nice enough, despite the fact that he's a Corona drinker.
Ran into teh band as well in an ice cream/candy shop in town before the show. Took this pic with my cell phone of Ronda & Josh.
Show was great. They played mostly stuff from the latest CD, but threw in some old gems as well.
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