Robert C Green II .com

I’ve spent the last day traveling to Fort Collings, CO in order to visit some friends. Today we visited went to breakfast at Lucilles and then visited New Belgium Brewery and Budweiser.

Lucilees was awesone. Large portions for homemade breakfast is absolutely unbeatable. The prices are a little higher than I’m used to, but we had beignets and a huge biscuit that were both delicous. Not to mention that our omelettes and breakfast burrito were large and extremely tasty!

New Belgium is an awesome small company. They treat their employess extremely well and they are responsible stewards of the environment. This means that there are days off, great benefits (a trip to Belgium to tour breweries after 5 years and a bike on your 1 year anniversay), free beer for employees, and their production process is a true testament to sustainability and stewardship of the earth. I was impressed. They use wind and methane for power. They recycle the water used to make beer. I was very impressed.

The entire place is also fun and personal. They give out free tours and free beer samplers. You can send post cards to anywhere in the world for free from their lobby. At the end of the tour you get to go down a freakin’ sweet slide! And the best part – the employees are happy and pleasant!

The only problem for me: I don’t really like their beers Go figure. A company that I actually love and I don’t really like their product. It’s nothing personal, I just don’t like the taste. For some reason it just doesn’t taste like real beer (keep in mind I prefer drinking Guiness and Boddingtons).

Budweiser is really just a big corporation that wants to make a buck. Their brewery is huge. Their horses are cool. They donate tons of money and are environmentally responsible for the most part. But no matter how you spin it they are still large, corporate, and looking to make a buck. And their beer is beer. Nothing special

I really enjoyed today. It was a heck of a lot of fun.