Focht Family Blog

We decided that Saturday was our tour day so after the walking tour we went to the Samuel Adams Brewery for a tour. In the past two years, I think it was Nathan’s favorite tour but that might have had something to do with the free beer! :)

Here is my mom and the kids waiting in an old beer barrel for the tour to start. It was metal and apparently they used to have to get inside them and scrub them by hand.

The tour starts out with a description of the different kinds of barley and hops that go into the beer with a sample cup of each of them passed around so you can smell and taste the grains.

Next they showed us the tanks that the beer is brewed in…

After the tour we went to a tasting room. They gave us tastings of three different kinds of beer. Here are the pitchers lined up for the first tasting…

They had root beer for the kids and people who didn’t want beer. I think we know how Joshua is going to spend his college days….

After the tour we found a little Italian restaurant and had dinner before heading back to the campground for the night.