I apologize for the cliche title on the post, but how could I resist? As a last minute cultural binge we spent our last week in Milwaukee touring three of the local breweries. My favourite part of touring the breweries are the endless jokes about how much the tour-goers like their beer. Being non beer drinkers we often find these jokes super corny, but we're sure that they cause just as much knee slapping among the drunk as those horrible pulpit jokes do among the Mormons. To each their own, you know. The Miller Brewery is a gigantic operation which actually ships out 500,000 cases of beer daily. The number may not look like a lot on paper, but when they show you the room containing the day's half a million cases of beer you can't help but wonder where in the world all that is going. The answer is Chicago. Yep, 40% goes to Milwaukee's big sister to the south.
Yeah, I'm a huge fan of factory tours. Something about seeing all the engineering and planning that is required just to make one single product. What I like the most about watching beer getting made is that not only do you get to see the gigantic machines that get the job done, but there's so much chemistry and history behind the product as well. That picture there is of Zoe and I in one of the beer sampling buildings along the tour. I asked one of the beer ladies if the stained glass window was made of old beer bottles, but she said no. I think she's full of it, because that's got to be a bunch of melted down bottles. I love the dr
unken friar motif.
Frederick Miller started up his brewery clear back in 1855, and somewhere along the way he and his creamed cronies dug a gigantic cave in the ground and packe
d it full of beer barrells and huge chunks of ice they hauled in from Lake Michigan. This enabled them to make huge quantities of beer and store it for a super long time so that it could be sold months later. This is the sort of thing that makes me so proud of man-kind. People are able to accomplish such a gigantic endeavor just to make a beverage available to the masses. I think it's pretty cool. Sara points out that the beer cave isn't symmetrical...they must have been sampling their wares while drawing up the blue prints.
I apologize for the cliche title on the post, but how could I resist? As a last minute cultural binge we spent our last week in Milwaukee touring three of the local breweries. My favourite part of touring the breweries are the endless jokes about how much the tour-goers like their beer. Being non beer drinkers we often find these jokes super corny, but we're sure that they cause just as much knee slapping among the drunk as those horrible pulpit jokes do among the Mormons. To each their own, you know. The Miller Brewery is a gigantic operation which actually ships out 500,000 cases of beer daily. The number may not look like a lot on paper, but when they show you the room containing the day's half a million cases of beer you can't help but wonder where in the world all that is going. The answer is Chicago. Yep, 40% goes to Milwaukee's big sister to the south.
Yeah, I'm a huge fan of factory tours. Something about seeing all the engineering and planning that is required just to make one single product. What I like the most about watching beer getting made is that not only do you get to see the gigantic machines that get the job done, but there's so much chemistry and history behind the product as well. That picture there is of Zoe and I in one of the beer sampling buildings along the tour. I asked one of the beer ladies if the stained glass window was made of old beer bottles, but she said no. I think she's full of it, because that's got to be a bunch of melted down bottles. I love the drunken friar motif. 
Frederick Miller started up his brewery clear back in 1855, and somewhere along the way he and his creamed cronies dug a gigantic cave in the ground and packed it full of beer barrells and huge chunks of ice they hauled in from Lake Michigan. This enabled them to make huge quantities of beer and store it for a super long time so that it could be sold months later. This is the sort of thing that makes me so proud of man-kind. People are able to accomplish such a gigantic endeavor just to make a beverage available to the masses. I think it's pretty cool. Sara points out that the beer cave isn't symmetrical...they must have been sampling their wares while drawing up the blue prints.
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