Weekendish plans:
Friday
- VIP/Backstage tour at the Coors Brewery in Golden. I’ve been on this before (one of the perqs of being their major engineering outsource company), but was pleased to be able to do it again with the IT crew. It’s fun, it’s interesting, and you get to taste beer straight out of the cold filtering tap. Sure, it’s only Coors, but, hey, it beats no beer at all.
- Set up VCR for Farscape. Gotta watch that tape pretty soon.
- Star Wars RPG at the Testerfolks; late start and early finish, I gather, which is probably just as well.
Saturday
- Assist Rey and Juli with their move to their new townhouse. Very exciting for them, natch, and it will be nice to have them nearer-by.
- Get the guest room cleaned up so we can start packing for the California trip. Begin same.
- Buy birthday gifts for folks with past or upcoming ones who we will be seeing in California.
- Frequent visits to Doyce’s site to see how the Blogathon is doing.
Sunday
- Churchy/brunchy stuff.
- Work on the yard, pulling weeds, deadheading pernicious perennials, etc. Maybe do some further plotting and planning of the fence-to-be. Gotta schedule that soon.
- Finish putting together the awesomely cool easel that Margie’s constructed for Katherine.
All in all, nothing rabidly exciting, but, I suspect, a pretty full weekend.
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Coors makes Killian’s
True, and the Killian’s line can be quite tasty. I believe they also make Blue Moon, which is also fine (indeed, my default choice at most drinking-out opportunities). I find the “standard” American lager — be it Coors or Bud or Mich or etc. to be thin, bitter, and suitable only for keggers. Not that there’s anything wrong with keggers, but you don’t go there to taste the beer.
I used to work in Golden at the Buffalo Rose and a lot of the guys would come in after work for ……… beer. Odd, because (I’m not sure if this is still allowed….I thought it foolish myself) they could get beer at work. The funniest part was that half of them would order ANYTHING BUT Coors.
I never took the tour myself but the ex did once upon a time.
I think the Free Beer was quashed sometime in the 80s or 90s. Probably wisely, but I think it was also a nice tradition that was a shame to lose.
I’m not surprised that they ordered something different. Part was likely the aesthetics — lots of people don’t like “American-Style Light Lager.” Part was likely, “Damn, I give them my sweat, I’ll be damned if I give them my money, too.”
It is, from what I’ve read (and heard) an … interesting place to work.