About New BelgiumNew Belgium Brewing Company, located in Fort Collins, Colorado was founded in 1991 by Jeff Lebesch. In less than twenty years it has grown to become the third largest craft brewery in the United States and the seventh largest over all brewery in the country.
New Belgium is distributed all throughout the United States and people everywhere recognize the amber ale Fat Tire. But New Belgium is so much more to Fort Collins than just a brewery. Something that people sometimes forget. |
Sarah Vanvlerah, an employee at New Belgium Brewery, begins the last brew tour of the day at 4:30pm Wednesday at the New Belgium Brewery in Fort Collins. Vanvlerah loves her job and has been working for the company for just over a year.
Jeff Lebesch, the owner of New Belgium Brewery, was spotted riding a mountain bike in Belguim and was stopped by a local who wondered where he got the bike with the fat tire. This memory stuck in his head and was how he came to name his first beer, Fat Tire. After a year of working at the New Belgium Brewery, employees receive their own bicycle from the owners for free as a token of their appreciation.
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These French Oak barrels at the New Belgium Brewery carry hundreds of hectoliters full of sour beer. The beers sit and breathe in these barrels for two to three years before they are bottled.
On tap at New Belgium for sampling are most of the beers that the company brews. Normal brewery hours are from 10AM to 6PM Tuesday through Saturday.
Samples of new beer and seasonal beer are given out on the free New Belgium Brewery tour. This allows the public to sample some beers that may never hit store shelves.
New Belgium regularly sells their products at the brewery as well as in liquor stores around the country.